University dining
Serve 5,000 students with zero allergen errors
CalcMenu links menu planning, campus orders, allergens and nutritional analysis. Your teams prepare the right volume, in the right place, with the right information on every label.
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.
Thousands of students, multiple campuses, one safety standard.
Institutional catering
Business restaurants, school canteens, day-care — menu planning, nutritional analysis and allergen traceability for thousands of covers.
What your teams deal with every day
Thousands of meals, allergies scattered across Excel files
Each campus keeps its own list. When a student reports an allergy, it takes days for the information to reach the kitchen preparing their meal.
Impossible to forecast the right volume every service
Headcounts change every week. You cook too much and throw away; or too little and scramble. Both are expensive.
Nutritional balance and budget don't talk to each other
The dietitian approves balanced menus, but the kitchen doesn't know the cost. Conversely, the manager cuts costs without seeing the nutritional impact.
Thousands of students, meals adapted to each one.
Allergens, diets and servings managed at scale. Your university cafeteria serves fast and safely.
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 moreAllergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
Learn moreOrders by floor / station
Each floor or ward orders its meals and diets online; the kitchen receives one consolidated summary.
Learn moreMulti-site
Share recipes and standards from a central kitchen while each site adapts its own menus.
Learn moreHACCP & safety
Temperatures, batch traceability and cleaning logs recorded continuously: always inspection-ready.
Learn moreFood cost & purchasing
Each recipe's cost updates with supplier prices; steer your margins and orders with precision.
Learn moreNutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
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 moreSustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Learn moreDiets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
Learn moreLabel Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
Learn moreElectronic shelf labels (ESL)
Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.
Learn moreBlaze Checks
Digital SOPs, staff training and inspection-ready audits. Every check is dated, signed, photographed and traceable. Versioning, due-date reminders and corrective actions included.
Learn morePOS connector
Sync your recipes, menus and prices with your POS and ordering/delivery platforms: iiko, Square, Lunchgate, Lightspeed, Toast, Deliverect, Oracle Simphony, Shiji.
Learn moreMulti-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
Learn moreProduct knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
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.
Allergens & traceability
Allergens and nutrition calculated automatically from your recipes, ready for inspection.
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.
Nutrition & analysis
Calculate nutritional values per portion and adapt menus to specific diets.
KitchenPlan
Plan menus, calculate costs and generate supplier orders in one flow.
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.
Sustainability & food waste
Less waste, more visibility: plan production precisely, adjust portions and cut the errors that end up in the bin.
Diets & textures
Turn any menu into the diets and textures you need (puréed, minced, IDDSI) without recalculating a single recipe.
Label Connector (NiceLabel)
From recipe to printed label: CalcMenu sends allergens, nutrition and shelf-life to your NiceLabel printers automatically.
Electronic shelf labels (ESL)
Buffet, menu and price labels updated instantly from CalcMenu, with allergens and origin, no reprinting.
Blaze Checks
Digital SOPs, staff training and inspection-ready audits. Every check is dated, signed, photographed and traceable. Versioning, due-date reminders and corrective actions included.
POS connector
Sync your recipes, menus and prices with your POS and ordering/delivery platforms: iiko, Square, Lunchgate, Lightspeed, Toast, Deliverect, Oracle Simphony, Shiji.
Multi-site management
Dashboards, KPIs and shared standards for group management, chains and central kitchens.
Product knowledge
A structured product database to optimise purchasing, reduce waste and create new recipes by connecting with world cuisines.
We serve more than 5,000 meals a day across three campuses. Before, each site kept its own files. Today we have one source of truth and allergens propagate in real time.
Institutional catering manager · University · Switzerland
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