Solution
Your vending machine, connected and smart
CalcMenu Vending connects your vending machines to your central system: diet and allergen-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, and replenishment alerts. Ideal for corporate, universities, hospitals and remote sites.
Before / after
Your machines are often empty or filled with unsold products. You don't know what sells, when to refill, and your customers can't find their diet.
Real-time visible stock, optimised replenishment, diet-filtered menus. Your machines are always full of the right products, and your customers always find what they can eat.
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 Vending connects your vending machines to your central system: diet and allergen-filtered menus, contactless payment, real-time stock tracking, and replenishment alerts. Ideal for corporate, universities, hospitals and remote sites.
What it gives you
Profile-filtered menu
The customer scans their card or badge. CalcMenu only displays products compatible with their diet and allergens. No more choice errors, no more food risk.
Contactless payment
Credit card, company badge, prepaid account or QR code. Payment happens in 2 seconds. The machine releases the product instantly. Digital or paper ticket of choice.
Real-time stock tracking
Every sale is recorded instantly. CalcMenu displays stock levels per machine, best-selling products, and replenishment alerts. Optimised refilling, stockouts avoided.
How it works
Connect your machines
REST API or native protocol from major manufacturers (Fuji, Evoca, Azkoyen). WiFi, 4G or Ethernet connection. Configuration in 15 minutes per machine.
Configure menus and prices
From CalcMenu, define available products per machine, prices, compatible diets, and stock alert thresholds. Instant update on all machines.
Optimise replenishment
CalcMenu generates optimised replenishment rounds by route and footfall time. Floor staff receive picking lists on their mobile. Stockouts reduced by 80 %.
For which sectors
Deployed at universities and hospitals to reduce stockouts by 80 % and increase vending revenue by 25 %.
Corporate restaurant
Forecast footfall, control food cost, display everything at self-service.
School catering
Safe, balanced menus that stay consistent across every school.
Hospital
Clinical dietetics, IDDSI, full traceability. For hospital kitchens where errors are not an option.
Staff Canteens & Corporate Restaurants
Hundreds of covers a day, zero guesswork: menus, allergens and costs fully under control.
Airports & passenger F&B
Cafes, lounges and fast-casual in the transit zone: standardised menus despite high staff turnover.
Stadiums & arenas
Peaks of tens of thousands of meals in a few hours, with event crews and allergen requirements.
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.
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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