CalcMenu for Cruise Ship Galleys
The right meal, the right deck, every crossing.
Cruise ship galleys combine the constraints of industrial production with the demands of multi-day voyages: provisioning at port, feeding thousands of passengers from dozens of nationalities, and cold-chain traceability across every deck. CalcMenu centralises production, labelling and HACCP traceability so your team can focus on the menu, not the manifest.
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.
From provisioning port to passenger plate — every diet, every nationality, every sailing.
Marine & rail
Cruise ships, ferries and high-speed trains all produce meals for passengers of every nationality and diet, loaded from a central galley or provisioning port, often without a reliable connection once underway. CalcMenu plans that central production, tracks every batch loaded onto every galley or train set, and keeps the traceability intact from the dock to the passenger's plate — sailing after sailing, departure after departure.
What your teams deal with every day
Dietary requests collected at booking don't reach the dish label on board
Vegetarian, halal, kosher, gluten-free — each nationality brings its own list of requirements, and every restaurant on board needs the same information. When matching a guest's request to the printed label is done by hand across a dozen venues, mistakes are inevitable — and they surface mid-voyage, days from the nearest port.
Cold-chain traceability breaks down between port provisioning and the ship's galleys
Ingredients are loaded at port for a voyage that can run two weeks with no resupply. They pass through central stores, then a dozen galleys across the ship before reaching a plate. Without an integrated system, temperatures and timings stay on loose sheets that cannot be audited.
Allergy on board: nobody can say for certain what's in the dish
A passenger declares an allergy in the main dining room. The crew searches for the ingredient sheet for tonight's menu. It's not up to date — or nowhere to be found. Days from the nearest port, there is no plan B.
US-departure lines: two allergen regimes at once, one labelling system
A line departing Miami carries European and American passengers on the same crossing: 14 EU allergens on one side, 9 FDA allergens on the other, plus the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program inspection regime. Managing that with two separate systems multiplies the error risk exactly where an error costs the most. CalcMenu already handles multiple allergen frameworks natively, in parallel — the US-specific label format (the 9-allergen FDA list) is in development, targeting Q3 2026.
At sea, every meal matters as much as on land.
Recipes, stock and passenger diets managed in one system. Your galley sails without surprises.
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.
Diets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
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.
HACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Blaze Checks — SOPs and training
Digital SOPs, staff training and inspection-ready audits. Every check is dated, signed, photographed and traceable. Versioning, due-date reminders and corrective actions included.
Managing dietary preferences for 14 nationalities across six restaurants with a 24-hour galley cycle used to mean three spreadsheets and a prayer. Now it is one system, and my sous chefs actually sleep.
Executive chef · Cruise line · Monaco
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