Staff Canteens & Corporate Restaurants
Control your costs and allergens. Starting Monday.
Plan balanced menus, display allergens in the dining room, track food cost per serving line — all of it flows through CalcMenu without re-entering data. Before, every recipe change triggered manual updates across three different spreadsheets. Now one change is all it takes.
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.
Hundreds of covers a day, zero guesswork: menus, allergens and costs fully under control.
Institutional catering
Business restaurants, school canteens, day-care — menu planning, nutritional analysis and allergen traceability for thousands of covers.
What your teams deal with every day
Allergen displays in the dining room no longer match the actual recipes
The supplier changed an ingredient. The recipe sheet was updated. But the display in the dining room stayed the same — and nobody noticed until the inspection.
The real cost per meal stays unknown until the end of the month
Management asks for the food cost. The catering manager manually totals up delivery notes. The figure arrives three weeks later — too late to correct anything.
Multiple sites cook the same recipe with no consistency
Each canteen adjusts portion weights its own way. The cost price varies from site to site. And when the company needs to report nutritional values, nobody knows which version is correct.
Hundreds of meals, one plan.
Menus, orders and production are aligned. You prepare the right quantity, reduce waste and keep your guests smiling.
What CalcMenu does for you
Menus & recipes
Every recipe and menu in one database, always up to date and in four languages for the whole brigade.
Learn moreAllergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
Learn moreHACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Learn moreFood cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
Learn moreCompliance & audits
Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.
Learn morePurchasing & stewarding
From forecasted need to supplier order, through inventory and par-level control.
Learn moreProduction planning
Plan central production, cold chain and cook-chill with traceability and requirements calculation.
Learn moreSustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Learn moreDiets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
Learn moreLabel Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
Learn moreOrders by floor / station
Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.
Learn moreMulti-site
Share recipes and standards from a central kitchen while each site adapts its own menus.
Learn moreNutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
Learn moreMulti-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
Learn moreCalcMenu 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.
Learn moreProduct knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
Learn moreSelf-service kiosk
Touchscreen kiosk for queue-free ordering: allergen-filtered menus, integrated payment, instant kitchen ticket.
Learn moreVending
Connected vending machines: diet-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, optimised replenishment.
Learn moreKey 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.
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.
Compliance & audits
Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.
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.
Sustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Diets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
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.
Nutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
Multi-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
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.
Product knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
Self-service kiosk
Touchscreen kiosk for queue-free ordering: allergen-filtered menus, integrated payment, instant kitchen ticket.
Vending
Connected vending machines: diet-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, optimised replenishment.
We run four corporate restaurants from a single recipe database. The food cost is visible in real time. That's exactly what we needed to manage our purchasing.
Collective catering manager · Industrial site · French-speaking Switzerland
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20 minutes to see if CalcMenu changes your day-to-day.
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