Solution
Artificial intelligence at the service of your kitchen.
CalcMenu embeds AI at three levels: automatic data extraction from supplier PDF spec sheets, creative recipe suggestions via Nooko AI, and real-time compliance alerts (allergens, HACCP, diets). Less keying, more reliability.
Before / after
Your paper recipes take weeks to enter into any tool.
AI reads, structures and completes your recipes in a few days.
Why this feature matters
This feature is built directly into the CalcMenu recipe and menu database. The same data serves kitchen, service, and administration—no re-entry, no paper versions.
CalcMenu embeds AI at three levels: automatic data extraction from supplier PDF spec sheets, creative recipe suggestions via Nooko AI, and real-time compliance alerts (allergens, HACCP, diets). Less keying, more reliability.
What it gives you
Extraction from supplier PDF spec sheets
Drag and drop a supplier PDF, Word or XLS spec sheet. CalcMenu automatically extracts allergens, nutrition values, origin and labels. You review, you approve.
Creative suggestions via Nooko AI
Nooko AI analyses your recipe database and proposes new combinations or ingredient swaps to improve cost, seasonality or nutritional profile.
Real-time compliance alerts
CalcMenu flags in real time missing allergens, diet deviations, HACCP temperatures out of range and expired supplier sheets — before the problem reaches the plate.
How it works
1. Import your supplier documents
PDF, Word or XLS: drag the spec sheet into CalcMenu. The AI extracts structured data and pre-fills the ingredient card.
2. Nooko suggests, you decide
In suggestion mode, Nooko AI presents recipe ideas or swap options. You accept, edit or reject. Your know-how stays in charge.
3. Alerts arrive before the problem
CalcMenu monitors in the background allergens, diets, HACCP thresholds and supplier sheet validity. An alert appears before the incident occurs.
For which sectors
AI extraction cuts the data-entry time for new supplier spec sheets by 80% in kitchens that have adopted it.
Care Homes & Nursing Homes
Resident menus, diets, tray cards. For institutions that want zero errors.
Psychiatry
Multiple wards, sites, complex diets. No phone calls, no paper.
Rehabilitation
Clinical diets, HACCP, multi-site. Prescriptions connected directly to the kitchen.
Hospitality
Multi-outlet, RevPASH, luxury. Baur au Lac.
Home meals & home care
From prescription to the patient's plate, without a break.
Luxury hospitality
One reference recipe, shared across all your restaurants.
Mountain resorts & ski stations
Short season, rotating teams, multi-outlet dining, all-inclusive. Pricing adapted to your season length.
Beach resorts & islands
Extreme seasonality, supply by boat, expensive energy and water. Pricing adapted to isolation and season length.
Resort & casino
The same numbers across every outlet.
School catering
Safe, balanced menus that stay consistent across every school.
Corporate restaurant
Forecast footfall, control food cost, display everything at self-service.
Food manufacturer
The recipe becomes a product: compliant labels and exact declarations, at scale.
Nutrition brand
Substantiated claims, nutrition to the gram, across your whole portfolio.
Bakery & pastry
Best-before labels, allergens and shelf prices without the paperwork.
Cloud kitchen
Multiple brands, one kitchen, food cost under control.
Airline catering
SPML, manifests and trays right, flight after flight.
Bakery-café & fast-casual chains
Same quality, same cost, same compliance in every store.
More CalcMenu features
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.
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.
Food cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
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.
Self-Service Meal Ordering
Patients and residents order their meals from a tablet or room screen: diets respected, allergens checked, kitchen orders consolidated automatically.
IDDSI textures
Apply IDDSI levels to recipes and ensure meals suitable for dysphagic patients.
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