BAKERY system specialist RedBlack Software has launched a new development to its product for bakery chains.

The business, based in King Street, York, has designed the CyBake Touch to reduce waste and increase profits in shops by providing more information about sales and ordering.

Jane Tyler, managing director, said: “Say a customer visits your shop because they want a steak pasty. There are none left, so the customer buys a meat-and-potato pasty instead.

“In fact, all the meat-and-potato pasties sell out as well, but it’s difficult to work out that the shop has only sold all of them because it has sold out of the steak pasties.

CyBake Touch’s Automated Orders tool can tell the shop manager that they don’t need to increase orders for both pasties, they only need to increase the orders for one.”