Airline catering
The right meal, the right count, every flight
A flight kitchen produces thousands of trays a day, with special-meal codes and watertight HACCP. CalcMenu handles SPML, uplift manifests and tray assembly at the scale of your operation.
A solution built for your sector
CalcMenu scales to your operation, from a few dozen to several thousand covers. The goal stays the same: one source of truth for recipes, allergens, and costs.
SPML, manifests and trays right, flight after flight.
Aviation & transport
Airline catering and airport food service both run on codes, certifications and turnaround times a normal restaurant kitchen never faces: SPML special-meal codes tied to a seat, uplift manifests that have to match exactly what's loaded, and menus that must stay standardised despite constant staff turnover in the transit zone. CalcMenu is already on board with MSC and a major airline caterer, handling galley menus, per-seat allergens and rotation costs at the pace this sector actually runs at.
What your teams deal with every day
Managing SPML and diets per flight
KSML, VGML, MOML… each flight carries its list of special meals tied to a seat. CalcMenu links every SPML code to its recipe and passenger, with no mix-ups.
Exact manifests and uplift
A gap between manifest and what's loaded means a missing meal in the air. CalcMenu generates manifests and uplift plans aligned to real passenger counts.
HACCP and tray assembly at scale
Cold chain, blast chilling and repetitive assembly leave little room for error. CalcMenu standardises HACCP sheets and assembly plans for every flight.
Hitting the boarding time, flight after flight
Across dozens of flights, the batch that gets missed is the one furthest behind its wheels-up time — not the most visible one. CalcMenu ranks production by real slack (time left versus trays still to plate) and surfaces the flight about to miss its aircraft, before it's too late.
Trays right, down to the count
On a run of hundreds of trays, 'about half done' isn't enough: a cook coming back after an interruption needs to know exactly where they stand. CalcMenu tracks plating tray by tray — 142 of 280 — so none is skipped or doubled, special meals included.
Lot traceability and recall in hours
In a recall you must link every loaded tray to its ingredient lots in hours, not days. CalcMenu assigns a lot number to each batch and ties it to its supplier lots — audit-ready traceability, targeted recall.
US flight kitchens: FSMA 204 traceability wants records, not just a lot number
US stations working for major airline caterers now see FSMA 204 traceability show up as a contract clause, not an option. That goes beyond a simple lot number — it requires retained, queryable traceability event records. CalcMenu already produces this production and lot history every day — that's not a roadmap promise, it's what the system already does for every tray produced.
One production pass, from prep to boarding.
SPML codes, passenger counts, HACCP checks and tray assembly live on one production screen, in real time. Every station sees the same board: who's plating what, what's left, what boards soon — no radio, no retyping. A special meal is confirmed before it's marked done, the lot is attached, and the board surfaces the tightest flight on its own.
Key features for this sector
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.
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.
SPML and manifests come out right the first time, even on large long-haul flights.
Production lead · Airport flight kitchen · Europe
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