Case Study: Tante Marie Culinary Academy saves time and boosts productivity with One Beyond's bespoke database solution

Tante Marie Culinary Academy - Customer Case Study

Tante Marie Culinary Academy, the UK's oldest independent culinary school, faced a significant operational challenge as its legacy Microsoft Access database was becoming slow, prone to crashes, and was soon to lose Microsoft support. The outdated and labor-intensive system was critical for managing everything from student timetables to generating complex ingredient orders for thousands of recipes. The academy partnered with One Beyond to develop a new, bespoke software solution to modernize their operations and avoid a return to manual processes.

One Beyond delivered a modern, web-based culinary management system built on ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server, hosted on resilient cloud infrastructure. The new system streamlined data entry, automated the creation of student timetables and ordering lists, and provided internet-based access. According to the academy's principal, the intuitive software immediately worked upon launch and is expected to yield a 50% improvement in productivity by eliminating manual paperwork. One Beyond continues to manage and support the system, ensuring it can scale with the academy's future growth.

Tante Marie Culinary Academy

Andrew Maxwell

Managing Director and Principal