Foodmeup
Partly replaceableon requesteditor verdict · 0 votes
Recipe management, profitability calculation and recipe cards for food trades.
A recipe card with a cost-price calculation is a data model that can be rebuilt. Keeping purchase prices up to date over time is the real work behind the subscription.
What you lose
- The ingredient and recipe libraries that come pre-filled.
- Tracking of price changes at suppliers, if automated.
- The vendor's guidance on profitability calculations.
- Updates to VAT rates and labelling rules.
Existing alternatives to Foodmeup
- YokitupFree
Free plan: recipe cards, allergens and cost prices; full plan at €159/month per site.
- COS KitchenFree
Free, unlimited food-cost calculator for restaurants, with PDF export.
- RestoMaestroSmaller vendor
Cost of goods and margin per dish calculated from scanned invoices, from €19 excl. VAT/month.
The prompt to build it yourself
Build me a recipe-card and profitability tool for the kitchen, for my venue, to replace a subscription. Stack: web app (Next.js or Node/Express) with SQLite, hosted on my small server, usable on phone and computer. No mandatory paid service, no telemetry. Core of the tool: - Ingredient library with purchase prices and allergens. - Recipe cards with sub-recipes, cost per portion and a target margin threshold, with an alert if the margin falls below it. - Printing the recipe card as PDF for the kitchen. Requirements: - Units and conversions (kg, g, L, cl, piece); purchase price excl. VAT per product and per supplier, with a history of changes. - Recipe card per dish: ingredients, weights, losses and yield, cost per portion, selling price incl. VAT, margin in euros and as a percentage. - VAT configurable per product (for example 10% for catering, 20% for alcohol): to be validated by my accountant, hard-code nothing. - Allergens: the 14 mandatory allergens ticked per ingredient, and automatically carried onto each recipe card (decree 2015-447). - CSV import and export (products, suppliers, recipes) so I am not locked in. Out of scope: stock management, supplier orders and accounting. README: installation, database backup, and a reminder that the VAT rates and allergen declarations are to be validated with my accountant and my suppliers.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Foodmeup be replaced by a custom-built tool?
- casevibecode verdict: Partly replaceable. A recipe card with a cost-price calculation is a data model that can be rebuilt. Keeping purchase prices up to date over time is the real work behind the subscription.
- What is Foodmeup used for?
- Recipe management, profitability calculation and recipe cards for food trades.
- What alternatives to Foodmeup already exist?
- Yokitup (free), COS Kitchen (free), RestoMaestro (smaller vendor). Options to compare before committing to a custom build.
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