Startup Idea: Intuitive Recipe Costing and Food Waste Management App

Startup idea to develop an intuitive and easy-to-use application that manages and optimizes recipe costs, ingredients price, dish pricing, and monitors food waste for restaurants. The software will link to supplier's ingredient prices and will allow chef's input for effective menu planning, aiming to maximize economic efficiency and reduce food waste.

I work in the food and beverage industry as a chef within a small but successful/busy michelin star restaurant.

We struggle with food costs and revenue loss through food waste due to lack of attention by employees, lack of attention to portion control, and so on. We have attempted to use certain applications like CalcMenu to calculate recipe measurements and prices but it is extremely difficult to use and not user friendly in the slightest making it ineffective since we do not have a ton of extra time in our week to dedicate to learning how to use it.

The ideal solution would be an application that accounts for recipes, ingredients in the recipes, current food costs/ingredient costs, dish pricing, and food waste created through the making of the dish.

It would be a basic system that is linked to the suppliers ingredient prices and the recipes would be input by the chefs themselves. It would essentially just be an interface where the two can interconnect so chefs can make the most economically efficient menus/dishes for their restaurants. We tried using CalcMenu but it truly is too difficult for any working chef to attempt using.

Submitter: Meghan, (view contact info)