FoodieManager
From ingredients to margin, without the spreadsheets.
FoodieManager runs the weekly production cycle for meal-prep businesses, personal chefs, and fitness-meal companies. Build costed recipes, plan the week's menu with quantities, and generate a supplier-grouped shopping list and a printable kitchen production sheet in one click — then see your true food cost and margin before a single pan hits the stove.
- One click
- Shopping list + production sheet
- Per-serving
- Cost & margin on every recipe
- 14-day
- Free trial, no contract
The problem
Meal-prep businesses run on a stack of disconnected spreadsheets. Recipes, ingredient prices, quantities, and shopping lists all have to be recalculated by hand every week, real margins stay invisible, and onboarding new kitchen staff means re-teaching the whole tangle. It's a spreadsheet tax on every order.
The solution
FoodieManager connects the numbers that move margin. Price ingredients once by unit and supplier, and every recipe is costed per serving automatically. Drop meals into the week with quantities, and the system rolls up a unit-converted, supplier-grouped shopping list plus a printable production sheet for the line. Food-cost, profit ranking, waste, and light inventory all draw from the same data — so the whole week is costed before you cook it.
What it does
Recipe costing & margins
Price ingredients once by unit and supplier, and every recipe shows its per-serving cost and margin the moment you build it.
Weekly menu planning
Drop meals into the week and set quantities, then copy a previous week to plan the next one in seconds.
Printable production sheets
One click turns the week's plan into a kitchen-ready production sheet — every dish, quantity, and prep requirement on one page.
Automated shopping lists
Ingredients roll up across the whole week's menu, unit-converted and grouped by supplier, ready to order or export to CSV.
Food cost & profit analysis
See weekly revenue, food-cost percentage, and profit ranking per dish — plus waste logging that shows what spoilage really costs.
AI margin coach
AI reads a recipe's real cost breakdown and suggests specific ways to lift its margin (Pro & Business plans).
Built with
A modern, proven stack chosen for reliability and speed of delivery.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Prisma 7
- SQL Server
- Tailwind CSS v4
- Stripe
- OpenAI (gpt-4o-mini)
- AWS SES
- Self-hosted on a Windows VPS (IIS + ARR reverse proxy, NSSM service)
Security & reliability
Engineered with the same discipline as regulated healthcare systems.
- Role-based access so owners, managers, and kitchen staff each see only what they should
- Encrypted in transit and at rest; PCI-conscious payment handling via Stripe
- Per-account data isolation — your recipes and costs stay yours
Want a product like FoodieManager for your business?
This is exactly the kind of secure, production-grade software I build — quickly and affordably. Let's talk about yours.