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Hotels & Restaurants

Control your costs without slowing down creativity.

Your recipes change with the seasons, supplier prices fluctuate and guests ask about allergens. CalcMenu brings it all together — from margin calculation to technical sheet printing — so your brigade can focus on the plate.

5-star hotel, Zurich · Mountain grand hotel, Valais
Hotels & Restaurants

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.

Recipes, food cost, allergens and labels. One tool for your entire kitchen brigade.

Hospitality & restaurants

Hotels, casinos, fine dining, cruises — manage recipe sheets, food cost and allergens for all outlets from one tool.

What your teams deal with every day

Food cost calculated by gut feel, never truly accurate

Supplier prices change every week. Recipe cards in Excel don't update themselves. At month end, the actual margin is a surprise — rarely a good one.

A guest asks about allergens — nobody has the exact answer

The waiter asks the kitchen, the chef checks the packaging. If an ingredient changed supplier yesterday, nobody knows yet. That's both a legal risk and a poor guest experience.

Buffet cards and salad bar labels redone by hand with every menu change

The buffet menu changes three times a week. Each time, someone opens Word, edits, prints, laminates. In high season, that's two hours lost every week — just for labels.

Your kitchen in full clarity.

Food cost, allergens and tech sheets on one screen. You make fast decisions without interrupting service.

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.

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Allergens & traceability

Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.

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Food cost & purchasing

Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.

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Self-service kiosk

Touchscreen kiosk for queue-free ordering: allergen-filtered menus, integrated payment, instant kitchen ticket.

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Click & collect

Order online, pick up on site: filtered menus, pickup slots, online payment, notification when ready.

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Label Connector (NiceLabel)

From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.

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Orders by floor / station

Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.

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Multi-site

Share recipes and standards from a central kitchen while each site adapts its own menus.

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HACCP & safety

Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.

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Electronic shelf labels (ESL)

Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.

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Nutrition & analysis

Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.

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Compliance & audits

Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.

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Multi-site management

Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.

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Purchasing & stewarding

From forecasted need to supplier order, through inventory and par-level control.

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Production planning

Plan central production, cold chain and cook-chill with traceability and requirements calculation.

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Scale → label

Connect a scale to print labels with actual weight, price per kg and allergens. Ideal for sandwiches, deli and bakery.

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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.

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Sustainability & food waste

Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.

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Product knowledge

A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.

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Event pre-order

Mandatory D-1 pre-order for large events: special menus, collective diets, planned production, smooth service.

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Delivery integration

Aggregate Uber Eats, Deliveroo orders and your own deliveries into a single production flow. One screen, zero errors.

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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.

Food cost & purchasing

Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.

Self-service kiosk

Touchscreen kiosk for queue-free ordering: allergen-filtered menus, integrated payment, instant kitchen ticket.

Click & collect

Order online, pick up on site: filtered menus, pickup slots, online payment, notification when ready.

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.

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.

Nutrition & analysis

Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.

Compliance & audits

Bring HACCP, allergens, traceability and SOPs into one compliance file that is always up to date and inspector-ready.

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.

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.

Event pre-order

Mandatory D-1 pre-order for large events: special menus, collective diets, planned production, smooth service.

Delivery integration

Aggregate Uber Eats, Deliveroo orders and your own deliveries into a single production flow. One screen, zero errors.

Since we started using CalcMenu, I can see in real time how a supplier change affects my margin. I've stopped underpricing my dishes without realising it.

Executive Chef · 4-star hotel · German-speaking Switzerland

20 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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