CalcMenu · Kitchen management software
Less paperwork.
More cooking.
CalcMenu connects your recipes, teams and customers. Allergens, costs, labels and orders in one tool — so everyone gets time back for what matters.
Book a 15-minute call with our team. No software to install — just a conversation.
CalcMenu · Kitchen management software
Your recipes, your team,
your peace of mind.
Manage menus, allergens and costs without retyping a thing. Your team cooks, CalcMenu handles the rest.
Book a 15-minute call with our team. No software to install — just a conversation.
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Swiss customer references:
What's slowing your teams down
Paper menus
Allergen errors, double entry, unmanageable archives. Your kitchen deserves better.
Ward orders by phone
Phone, fax, sticky notes. By the time the kitchen gets the list, it's already too late.
Multi-site chaos
Two buildings, two spreadsheets. Consistent recipes stay wishful thinking.
We don't replace your systems. We take the recipe.
Most tools in this category want to become your back office. CalcMenu is built the other way round — which is why it fits operations the all-in-ones cannot serve.
Your ERP stays
CalcMenu takes the recipe and everything that follows from it: cost, allergens, nutrition, CO2, labels, diet and texture variants. For the rest, it connects — 41 integrations across POS, suppliers, hotel PMS, care-home and hospital systems, plus GS1, PEPPOL and EDIFACT.
No POS required
In hospitals, care homes, all-inclusive hotels, staff restaurants and airline catering, meals are not rung up one by one. Tools built on till data have nothing to read there. CalcMenu never needed it.
Why that line holds
Ask any vendor why its scope keeps growing year after year. A product carrying a valuation has to grow into it, and the cheapest growth is selling more surface area to the customers it already has — which is how a recipe tool ends up as a back office. CalcMenu is still run by the two partners who built it. The line above isn't a phase.
Everything your teams see, in one place
No jargon, no modules to configure for months. Here is what CalcMenu shows you — from day one.
The menu, allergens and cost — on a single screen
No more juggling a binder, a spreadsheet and a paper sheet. Every dish shows its allergens, nutritional value and real cost, automatically.
No more re-typing
Meal ordering, on a tablet
Your teams order meals in a few taps, right from their station. The kitchen receives everything in real time — no phone, no paper, no misunderstanding.
No phone calls
Allergen and nutrition traceability, automatic
Allergens, ingredients, nutritional values: all calculated and documented continuously. On inspection day, everything is already there.
Inspection-readySame platform, different context. Choose your world.
Health & social care
Care Homes & Nursing Homes · Psychiatry · Rehabilitation
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Hospitality · Luxury hospitality · Mountain resorts & ski stations
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School catering · Corporate restaurant · Staff Canteens & Corporate Restaurants
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Food manufacturer · Nutrition brand · Vegetable Processor
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Bakery & pastry · Cloud kitchen · Bakery & Patisserie
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Airline catering · Airports & passenger F&B
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Stadiums & arenas · Theme parks · Trade shows & exhibitions
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CalcMenu for Cruise Ship Galleys · Rail catering · Cruises & ferries
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Camps & bases · Correctional facilities · Public Administration & Police
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All articles →CalcMenu vs Apicbase: margin control or compliance control?
Both are recipe-first platforms with ingredient-level data and multi-site rollout. The honest split is what governs the recipe — POS sales data, or a care requirement. Where each one is genuinely stronger, and the question that usually decides it.
August 15, 2026
Hospitality & restaurantsCalcMenu vs JAMIX: the closest comparison in collective catering
Two long-established kitchen management systems aimed at almost the same buyer — schools, hospitals, care homes, universities. They overlap more than any other pair in this category, so the decision comes down to volume patterns, variant depth and language.
August 15, 2026
Hospitality & restaurantsCalcMenu vs Nutritics: food data platform or production system?
The closest comparison in healthcare foodservice, and the one most often decided wrongly. Nutritics analyses and publishes food data to a depth CalcMenu does not match; CalcMenu runs the kitchen that produces the food. Where each is genuinely stronger.
August 15, 2026
Building blocks that connect to your kitchen — labelling, traceability, AI and flavour intelligence.
Menus & recipes
Every recipe and menu in one database, always up to date and in four languages for the whole brigade.
Diets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
Allergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
Label Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
Orders by floor / station
Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.
Multi-site
Share recipes and standards from a central kitchen while each site adapts its own menus.
HACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Food cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
Electronic shelf labels (ESL)
Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.
Nutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets. US FDA panel format in development.
Self-Service Meal Ordering
Patients and residents order their meals from a tablet or room screen: diets respected, allergens checked, kitchen orders consolidated automatically.
IDDSI textures
Apply IDDSI levels to recipes and ensure meals suitable for dysphagic patients.
AI & Automation
Automatic extraction from supplier PDF spec sheets, Nooko AI recipe suggestions, real-time compliance alerts.
Flavor Pairing
Discover the best ingredient pairings based on real aroma chemistry (1,530 ingredients, Ahn 2011 dataset). Timeless, Unexpected or Bold — with AI-generated sensory descriptions.
Blaze Checks — SOPs and training
Digital SOPs, staff training and inspection-ready audits. Every check is dated, signed, photographed and traceable. Versioning, due-date reminders and corrective actions included.
Family portal
Family members see what their resident ate, flag preferences and stay in touch with the care team — without a phone call.
Blaze Trace — Batch traceability
Batch-level traceability that scales from a single kitchen to a multi-site, multi-supplier operation — so a recall takes minutes, not days, and "what's affected" is never a guess.
Staff Meal Reservation
Employees reserve, swap and cut waste in a few clicks: time slots, meal marketplace, AI assistant, group reservations, returned-portion tracking and built-in MNA screening.
POS connector
Sync your recipes, menus and prices with your POS and ordering/delivery platforms: iiko, Square, Lunchgate, Lightspeed, Toast, Deliverect, Oracle Simphony, Shiji.
Digital Signage & Multi-channel Publishing
From approved menu to screen, printed card and Evolis badge — in one click. CalcMenu publishes the daily menu to all your display channels simultaneously.
KitchenPlan
Plan menus, calculate costs and generate supplier orders in one flow.
BlazeChef AI — Recipe generation
Generate, adapt and standardise recipes with AI directly inside CalcMenu.
Blaze Market Study
Analyse ingredient and flavour trends by region and season to inspire your menus and campaigns.
Blaze Flavour Intelligence
Ingredient pairings grounded in aroma chemistry, sensory dish descriptions and recipe ideas from a desired taste.
Compliance & audits
Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.
Multi-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
Purchasing & stewarding
From forecasted need to supplier order, through inventory and par-level control.
Production planning
Plan central production, cold chain and cook-chill with traceability and requirements calculation.
Scale → label
Connect a scale to print labels with actual weight, price per kg and allergens. Ideal for sandwiches, deli and bakery.
CalcMenu for IT & security
Deploy CalcMenu without breaking your IT stack: outbound connections, granular roles, standard POS/NiceLabel integrations and one single source of truth for all recipe data.
Sustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Product knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
BlazeIQ — Kitchen compliance
Digital HACCP logs, SOPs, cold chain traceability and inspection dossiers generated in one click. Ready for cantonal and hotel audits.
IT security & compliance
MFA, SCIM 2.0 (Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) / Okta), SIEM export and Swiss hosting. Compliant with the Nestlé Security Annex and OWASP standards.
Self-service kiosk
Touchscreen kiosk for queue-free ordering: allergen-filtered menus, integrated payment, instant kitchen ticket.
Mobile pre-order
Your customers order from their smartphone before arriving: no queue, no waiting, production planned in advance.
Room service
Order from the room, integrated with PMS: diet-filtered menus, catering service or kitchen production, automatic billing.
Event pre-order
Mandatory D-1 pre-order for large events: special menus, collective diets, planned production, smooth service.
Click & collect
Order online, pick up on site: filtered menus, pickup slots, online payment, notification when ready.
Delivery integration
Aggregate Uber Eats, Deliveroo orders and your own deliveries into a single production flow. One screen, zero errors.
Vending
Connected vending machines: diet-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, optimised replenishment.
Blaze Tray — Meal ordering & nutrition
Bedside meal ordering for care homes, clinics and home-care providers: dish photos, allergens, IDDSI textures, therapeutic diets, intake tracking and malnutrition-risk analytics.
BlazeIQ Labels — Kitchen labelling
Use-by labels calculated automatically from CalcMenu and printed to a thermal printer in one tap. Free app, optional compliance modules.
Evolis Card Printing
Print menu cards, meal vouchers, staff badges, resident ID cards, loyalty cards, retail shelf cards, butchery counter cards and event signage straight from CalcMenu — one module, every card your operation needs, always fed by up-to-date data.
Blaze Aero — Menus & halal compliance
Menu engineering and halal certification for airline and in-flight catering — special meal codes, HACCP-compliant labelling, and supplier accuracy built for how airline catering actually decides what goes on a tray.
FoodOps — Stock, purchasing & traceability
Real-time stock by location, automated purchasing and lot traceability — built on Odoo, no existing ERP required. Syncs automatically with your CalcMenu recipes.
What actually changes
We serve 350 residents every day. Since CalcMenu, we haven't printed a single menu sheet.
HACCP traceability is complete from day one. Inspections no longer worry us.
Tomorrow's menus approved on a tablet last night. Nursing and kitchen see the same information.
15 minutes to see if CalcMenu changes your day-to-day.
We won't sell you software. We'll look at what's wearing you down today and check together if CalcMenu fits.
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