Sandwich chain
The tool for sandwich chains and franchises
Subway, Pret a Manger and their competitors leave nothing to chance. CalcMenu syncs recipes, allergens, labels and costs across every outlet in real time.
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.
Master recipe followed, cost controlled, label compliant in every store.
Retail & craft
Bakeries, patisseries, cloud kitchens — print best-before/allergen labels directly from the recipe, no re-entry, HACCP-compliant.
What your teams deal with every day
A supplier changes an ingredient — labels are wrong from the next day
The bread recipe changes. Someone has to find every affected recipe, recalculate allergens, redo the labels — and hope no outlet prints the old version.
No way to know if the margin holds at each outlet
Raw material prices shift. Recipes drift locally. Without centralised costing, each outlet manager sets prices by feel — and overall profitability becomes impossible to read.
Electronic shelf labels and display prices don't reflect the latest recipes
A recipe is updated centrally. The ESL file isn't refreshed. In the outlet, the customer reads a composition that no longer matches what they're buying — a legal and reputational risk.
The same recipe, the same taste, in every store.
Tech sheets and allergens synced in one click. Your franchises follow the master recipe without errors.
What CalcMenu does for you
Allergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
Learn moreLabel Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
Learn moreMulti-site
Share recipes and standards from a central kitchen while each site adapts its own menus.
Learn moreFood cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
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 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 moreScale → label
Connect a scale to print labels with actual weight, price per kg and allergens. Ideal for sandwiches, deli and bakery.
Learn moreClick & collect
Order online, pick up on site: filtered menus, pickup slots, online payment, notification when ready.
Learn moreOrders by floor / station
Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.
Learn moreHACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Learn moreElectronic shelf labels (ESL)
Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.
Learn moreCold chain & cook-chill
Plan central production and cold-chain distribution with full traceability.
Compliance & audits
Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.
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 moreSustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Learn moreProduct knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
Learn moreDelivery integration
Aggregate Uber Eats, Deliveroo orders and your own deliveries into a single production flow. One screen, zero errors.
Learn moreKey features for this sector
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.
Food cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
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.
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.
Scale → label
Connect a scale to print labels with actual weight, price per kg and allergens. Ideal for sandwiches, deli and bakery.
Click & collect
Order online, pick up on site: filtered menus, pickup slots, online payment, notification when ready.
Orders by floor / station
Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.
HACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Electronic shelf labels (ESL)
Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.
Compliance & audits
Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.
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.
Sustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Product knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
Delivery integration
Aggregate Uber Eats, Deliveroo orders and your own deliveries into a single production flow. One screen, zero errors.
Sandwich chains can’t afford to improvise
Subway, Pret a Manger and their competitors have built their success on a simple promise: customers know exactly what they’ll get, whichever location they walk into. Behind that apparent simplicity lies a highly demanding operational machine — master recipes followed to the letter, costs kept in check, allergens correctly displayed, and new products rolled out at speed.
CalcMenu is built for chains that operate at this pace. It makes the recipe the single source of truth: from there, production quantities, print-ready labels, selling prices and margin analyses all flow automatically.
Roll out a new recipe in hours, not weeks
Launching a new sandwich across a hundred locations typically means distributing spec sheets, briefing teams, checking labels and making sure every point of sale reflects the correct price. With CalcMenu, that entire chain is reduced to a head-office sign-off followed by an automatic deployment.
Technical sheets, allergen declarations, nutritional values and prices are pushed out simultaneously. Franchisees receive the same instructions, in the same language, with the same quality controls applied across the board.
Protect your brand from allergen errors
In a sandwich chain, a single allergen mistake can quickly escalate into a public incident. CalcMenu links every ingredient directly to its original allergen declaration. If a supplier changes a formulation or an ingredient is substituted, labels and product sheets update automatically across every affected location.
The quality manager has a centralised dashboard to monitor compliance by store, region or country.
Franchise or company-owned network: the same discipline applies
Whether your locations are franchised or company-owned, the requirement is the same: ensuring every outlet follows the master recipe. CalcMenu lets you lock down critical elements while still giving local operators the flexibility to adjust forecast quantities based on footfall.
The result: a consistent customer experience, controlled costs, and a central team free to focus on innovation rather than firefighting.
We have 14 outlets. Before, a recipe change took a full day to roll out everywhere. With CalcMenu it's done in minutes and we know every label is up to date.
Production manager · Sandwich chain · Switzerland
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