Military & Defence
Feed 2,000 soldiers — without improvising.
Military kitchens handle extreme volumes, variable headcounts and extraordinary logistical constraints. CalcMenu centralises recipes, orders and HACCP traceability so every service is delivered on time — whatever the site.
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.
Thousands of meals, zero margin for error. Military food logistics under control.
Institutional catering
School canteens, workplace restaurants, universities and contract caterers serve thousands of meals a day to people who didn't choose their menu and can't be asked about an allergy at the counter. CalcMenu plans and costs those menus centrally, tracks every allergen and nutritional value per recipe, and gives kitchen teams a consistent, compliant standard across every site — from a single school to a nationwide contract.
What your teams deal with every day
Headcounts change every week — orders can't keep up
A cancelled exercise, a relocated unit, an extra company. The kitchen often finds out about headcount changes 48 hours out. The result: surplus, shortfalls, and waste that's hard to account for.
Multiple kitchens, no shared recipe standard
Every barracks cooks its own way. Costs vary from site to site without explanation. There's no way to manage quality or benchmark performance across centres.
HACCP traceability relies on paper logbooks
Temperatures, goods-in checks, cleaning records — all logged by hand in binders. When an inspection or food incident occurs, tracking down last week's data is a detective job.
Reliable field meals, even at scale.
Rations, allergens and traceability managed in one system. You feed your units without security gaps.
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.
Allergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
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.
We sometimes produce 1,800 covers across two sites on the same day. With CalcMenu, everyone sees the same figures in real time. We've stopped calling each other to count portions.
Head chef · Military catering centre · Switzerland
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15 minutes to see if CalcMenu changes your day-to-day.
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