A production line made of recipes.
End-to-end workflow management for culinary teams — ingredient prep, sub-recipe creation, jar filling and dish execution with real-time status, clear assignments and automated tracking.
A commercial kitchen is a factory that never wrote down its process.
Hundreds of fresh meals a day depend on prep chains: base recipes feeding sub-recipes feeding dishes, across stations and shifts. That choreography lived in chefs’ heads and whiteboards — invisible to planning, unverifiable for allergens, and fragile every time a key person was off.
We modelled the kitchen as the production system it really is: recipes as bills of materials, prep as tracked work orders, stations as assignable capacity. Every batch — from ingredient prep to jar filling to finished dish — now moves through real-time statuses with automated tracking behind it.
Treated as a production system, the kitchen started behaving like one: recipe consistency up 47%, allergen incidents down 82%, and new locations ramping 60% faster — every batch tracked from prep to jar to plate.
The process lived in chefs’ heads.
A factory’s worth of choreography — invisible to planning, unverifiable for allergens, fragile to absence.
An unwritten production line.
Prep chains spanned stations and shifts with no system underneath them.
- Knowledge walks out — a key chef off sick stalled entire prep chains.
- Allergens unverifiable — no traceable line from ingredient to finished jar.
- Planning was blind — prep status lived on whiteboards and in heads.
- Onboarding by shadowing — new kitchens took months to ramp.
The kitchen, modelled honestly.
Recipes as bills of materials, prep as tracked work orders, stations as assignable capacity.
- Recipe BOMs — base recipes feeding sub-recipes feeding dishes, explicitly.
- Tracked batches — ingredient prep to jar filling to dish, with live status.
- Allergen traceability — incidents down 82% through the traceable chain.
- Repeatable sites — new kitchens ramp 60% faster on a written process.
Mise en place, systematised.
The culinary workflow, modelled honestly — not flattened into a generic task app.
Recipe & sub-recipe graph
Dishes modelled as layered recipes with yields, costs and allergens inherited correctly.
Prep work orders
Daily production translated into station-level tasks with quantities and deadlines.
Jar-filling workflow
Batch portioning tracked unit by unit — the bridge between kitchen and fridge retail.
Real-time status board
Every batch’s state visible across the kitchen — no shoulder-tapping to find out.
Task assignments
Clear ownership per station and shift — handovers survive whoever is off today.
Automated tracking
Lot-level traceability from ingredient to dish — allergen and quality answers in seconds.
Writing down the choreography.
Four phases, starting with time spent in the production kitchen.
Conceptualisation
Spent time in production kitchens mapping the real prep chains, station by station.
Design
Station screens chefs can use mid-shift — gloves on, glance up, tap once.
Development
The workflow engine: recipe BOMs, work orders, live statuses, automated tracking.
Deployment
Site-by-site rollout — +47% recipe consistency in production.
What kept us up at night.
The problems that decided whether the product worked at all.
Modelling without flattening
Generic task apps die in kitchens. Sub-recipes, par levels and station capacity had to be modelled the way chefs actually think.
Allergen-proof traceability
Every dish traces back through every sub-recipe to ingredient lots — the chain a recall or an allergy incident demands.
Software at kitchen pace
Updates mid-rush, with wet hands, in seconds. The interface had to survive a real service, not a demo.
Tech stack.
A manufacturing system that speaks kitchen.
Numbers the owners watch.
The kitchen’s tribal knowledge became an operating system it can hire against.
Every site cooks the same dish — the recipe graph enforces it.
Lot-level traceability turned allergen control from hope into arithmetic.
New kitchens onboard against a written, running process.
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