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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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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