Chef's Helper

Chef's Helper — kitchen management for professional kitchens

Run a sharper, safer, more profitable kitchen. Chef's Helper brings your recipes, costing, prep lists, inventory, food safety records, staff rota and team into one app.

Whether you run a small café, a busy restaurant or a multi-site operation, Chef's Helper replaces the scattered notebooks, spreadsheets and printouts that slow your kitchen down.

📖 RECIPES & COSTING
• Digital recipe books with photos, ingredients, method and chef's notes
• Import recipes from websites or CSV files, and export your own to share or back up
• Allergen screening against the 14 UK allergens — matches ingredient names and flags likely allergens for you to confirm (always check supplier specs)
• Recipe scaling calculator — scale to any portion count or multiplier
• Live food cost and Gross Profit % from your own ingredient prices
• One-click nutrition lookup (calories and macros) using the USDA FoodData Central database; ingredients with no match are left out of the totals
• Printable recipe cards and printable allergen sheets

🥘 PREP LISTS & SCHEDULING
• Daily prep lists with tasks assigned to team members
• Due dates and shifts so nothing gets missed
• Progress visible to everyone on the team

📦 INVENTORY & ORDERING
• Organise stock by physical location (fridges, freezers, dry stores)
• Low-stock alerts: an in-app notification when an item drops below its minimum
• See at a glance what's expiring soon
• Order lists generated from low stock and grouped by supplier
• Mark what's been ordered and what's still outstanding

🌡️ FOOD SAFETY RECORDS
• Daily opening and closing safety checks
• Fridge, freezer, probe, delivery, cooking and cooling temperature logs
• Built-in thresholds with instant pass/fail and a 90-minute cooling rule
• Record the corrective action taken when a reading is out of range
• EHO Audit Pack: export your records as a PDF for an inspection visit
• Designed around FSA Safer Food, Better Business record-keeping. Chef's Helper is an independent product and is not endorsed, approved or certified by the Food Standards Agency.

🗑️ WASTE TRACKING
• Log stock loss by reason (expired, spoiled, damaged, over-prep)
• Weekly waste summaries to spot trends and cut cost

🍽️ MENUS
• Structured menus with sections, descriptions and pricing
• Link menu items to your costed recipes and see GP% per dish

👥 TEAM & ROTA
• Invite your team with invite codes or email invites
• Two roles: Admin and Member
• Staff rota with shifts and roles so you know who was working when
• Everyone works from the same up-to-date data

📝 SHIFT NOTES
• Pass information between shifts so nothing gets lost

💷 PRICING
• Free: 1 user, 3 recipe books, 50 recipes, plus unlimited inventory, prep and order lists
• Solo £9.99/month: 1 user, full suite including menus, safety checks, temperature logs and waste logs
• Team S £24.99/month (5 users), Team M £39.99/month (10 users), Team L £69.99/month (25 users)
• Every new account starts with a 14-day free trial of the full suite — no card required

WHY CHEFS CHOOSE CHEF'S HELPER
✓ Built for professional kitchens
✓ Works on Android, phone, tablet and any web browser — your data syncs
✓ UK 14-allergen screening built in
✓ Real food cost and GP% from your prices, not guesswork
✓ Secure cloud backup of every recipe and record

PERFECT FOR
• Restaurants and gastropubs
• Cafés and coffee shops
• Hotels and event caterers
• Dark kitchens and meal prep businesses
• Private chefs and consultants
• Culinary students and educators

Stop wasting time on admin and get back to cooking.

Need help? Email support@chefshelper.app — we reply fast.

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