Hospital
The right meal, for the right patient. Every time.
Between clinical diets, IDDSI textures, allergens and bed rotations, a hospital kitchen manages hundreds of individual cases every day. CalcMenu centralises everything — prescriptions, production, labelling — and frees your teams from high-risk manual tasks.
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.
Clinical dietetics, IDDSI, full traceability. For hospital kitchens where errors are not an option.
Health & social care
Nursing homes, hospitals, psychiatric clinics, rehab, home care — CalcMenu handles therapeutic diets, allergens, and IDDSI textures.
Hospital food reservation software
Need a reservation system for ward and patient meals?
What your teams deal with every day
Incorrectly applied IDDSI textures remain a daily risk
A dysphagic patient receives a texture that is too firm because the prescription was handwritten and misread during production. The consequences can be serious.
Nutritional information doesn't reach the dietitian in time
The dietitian approves menus based on incomplete data. Actual nutritional values are calculated after the fact — sometimes never.
Cook-chill creates blind spots in traceability
Production is offset by 24 to 48 hours. Repacking labels are made by hand. In the event of an incident, tracing the implicated batch takes hours.
The prescription reaches the plate, without error.
Clinical diets, allergens and nutritional traceability follow the patient from prescription to tray. Dietetics and the kitchen share the same data.
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 moreDiets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
Learn moreAllergens & 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 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 moreNutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
Learn moreIDDSI textures
Apply IDDSI levels to recipes and ensure meals suitable for dysphagic patients.
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 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 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 moreCold chain & cook-chill
Plan central production and cold-chain distribution with full traceability.
Staff Meal Reservation
Employees reserve, swap and cut waste in a few clicks: time slots, meal marketplace, AI assistant, group reservations, returned-portion tracking and built-in MNA screening.
Learn moreMulti-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
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 moreRoom service
Order from the room, integrated with PMS: diet-filtered menus, catering service or kitchen production, automatic billing.
Learn moreVending
Connected vending machines: diet-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, optimised replenishment.
Learn moreBlaze Tray
Bedside meal ordering for care homes, clinics and home-care providers: dish photos, allergens, IDDSI textures, therapeutic diets, intake tracking and malnutrition-risk analytics.
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.
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.
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.
Nutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
IDDSI textures
Apply IDDSI levels to recipes and ensure meals suitable for dysphagic patients.
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.
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.
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.
Staff Meal Reservation
Employees reserve, swap and cut waste in a few clicks: time slots, meal marketplace, AI assistant, group reservations, returned-portion tracking and built-in MNA screening.
Multi-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
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.
Room service
Order from the room, integrated with PMS: diet-filtered menus, catering service or kitchen production, automatic billing.
Vending
Connected vending machines: diet-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, optimised replenishment.
Blaze Tray
Bedside meal ordering for care homes, clinics and home-care providers: dish photos, allergens, IDDSI textures, therapeutic diets, intake tracking and malnutrition-risk analytics.
We manage over 600 trays a day with dozens of different diets. CalcMenu made it manageable. I couldn't go back to how it was before.
Catering manager · Cantonal hospital · Switzerland
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