Café & brasserie
Your daily specials, prices and allergens: always up to date
CalcMenu fits cafés and brasseries that change their menu daily. Calculate food cost, print allergens and sync your till in a few clicks — no IT team needed.
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.
A menu that changes daily, reliable recipe specs, without complexity.
Hospitality & restaurants
Hotels, casinos, mountain and seaside resorts, restaurant chains and franchises all run the same recipe across multiple outlets, seasons and teams — and need the food cost, allergens and labelling to match every single time. CalcMenu keeps one reference recipe per dish, with costs, allergens and compliant labels recalculated automatically the moment a supplier price or a menu changes, whether that's one restaurant or hundreds of franchised locations.
What your teams deal with every day
The menu changes, the recipe specs don't keep up
Daily special, chef's suggestion, lunch set: every day brings changes. Without a simple tool, costs and allergens are calculated on the fly — and sometimes wrongly.
The till shows one price, the kitchen calculates another
The daily special sells for 22 francs, but nobody knows if it's profitable. Margin is guessed at month-end, when it's too late to correct.
Allergen labelling is done by hand in the kitchen
Small card, pen, chef's memory. A recipe changes, an ingredient is substituted, and the label becomes wrong. The risk to the customer is real.
Old-school brasserie, day-to-day management without stress.
Recipes, costs and allergens updated in real time. You keep the menu alive and your customers informed.
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.
Food cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
POS connector
Sync your recipes, menus and prices with your POS and ordering/delivery platforms: iiko, Square, Lunchgate, Lightspeed, Toast, Deliverect, Oracle Simphony, Shiji.
Label Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
HACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
I change my menu every day. Before, I wasted time calculating costs by hand. Now I know in two clicks whether my daily special is profitable.
Chef-owner · Brasserie · Geneva
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