Family portal

Family members see what their resident ate, flag preferences and stay in touch with the care team — without a phone call.

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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.

Family members see what their resident ate, flag preferences and stay in touch with the care team — without a phone call.

Explore CalcMenu's recipe and menu software for nursing homes to see how it applies to your kitchen.

For which sectors

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.

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. US FDA panel format in development.

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.

15 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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