Cuisine and Dark kitchen software features

Focus on your kitchen work and we manage your costs.

Quickly calculate food costs in details to drive your cuisine or your dark kitchen.

Easily fix your selling prices with ratios and margin calculators for best profitability.

Manage production and daily food needs with accurate ingredient costing.

Provide allergens, nutrition information, food labelling to your customers.

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Fill your ingredient category, supplier, price and type of quantity (volume, weight, number).

Create your customized categories.

All units conversions automatically managed, no conversion needed, it's simple.

You can also tag with all 14 known allergens to inform your customers.

Easy initial ingredients loading : fill multiple ingredients at one time from a dedicated screen or import from a CSV file (excel) .

Edit, adjust your details after creation : internal code, supplier , reference, production note, category.

Visualize your ingredients relations.

Manage your treacability with Expiration dates and batch numbers.

Add your nutrition label tags (based on USDA database).

Visualize the price evolution chart and modifications of your ingredients.

Visualize the last price variation of your ingredient directly in ingredients list table.

Get you recipe synthesis: cost breakdown per ingredient or subrecipe, graphical cost pie chart , allergens involved if any.

Obtain automatically your food composition label with allergens after each ingredients update.

Add prepare instruction text and images in html editor, get average nutrient metrics , print your technical recipe synthesis document.

Create a recipe based on sub-recipes and/or ingredients, easier to create complex recipes.

Duplicate a recipe from existing one to save time, adjust and save.

You recipe weight has changed during cooking : add loss/gain percentage variation ratio on your recipe.

From real time updated recipe, get your recipe food cost, identify your expensive ingredients to adjust quantities if necessary.

Fill in your desired selling price and visualize your gross margin and food cost per recipe.

More about margins and profitability percentages

Manage easily all your leads estimates and automatically send them by email.

Convert your estimates to production tasks or invoicing in one click.

Update any document ant any time and evaluate your financial indicators (ratios/margins).

Use our planning tools to adjust or extract all your needs from your recipes quantities

Print, export and share all your productions notes per events at anytime, convert to supplier orders in one click.

Export your next order of ingredients automatically from your custom recipes and production units needed.

Create also orders manually directly from your suppliers ingredients lists. All orders are editable at any time.

Set your supplier email and automatically send your order to your supplier. Otherwise print it, that's it.

Print your recipe technical files with your selected options : number of recipes, costs details, margin details, each sub-recipe, allergens, ingredients pie chart, preparation instructions ...

More about professional recipe forms

Fill your supplier contact and supplementary details to be able to order quickly based on your ingredients shopping lists automatically created from your recipes quantities.

Your suppliers informations are available in your shopping list ready to print, or to be emailed automatically.

Set each ingredient stock quantity. Use order states (ongoing, sent, received) to increase/decrease automatically your quantities from your orders.

Check your stock value in real time.

Organize your inventory according to your storage areas personalized.

Create your inventory list per category at anytime (PDF document).

Arrange your menus based on recipes (or ingredients) per season, per day or per specific service.

Associate a selling price and evaluate your margin and food costs. Extract your allergens matrix per menu.

Simplify the management of your organization by managing several establishments/locations from a single account while separating your data (recipes, menus, orders, invoicing, etc ...)

Easily invite your employees to join by giving them with the appropriate rights in your structure.