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Without visuals, your recipes can be misinterpreted. Add photos & videos to remove the guesswork for your cooks. Or capture inspiration pictures on the fly.
Introducing meez
The recipe tool for professional chefs
Transform your recipe content into an interactive database.
Put all your ideas and recipes in Meez. Add videos & images. Use built-in ingredient yields, conversions, and super slick. Lorem impsum dose.
“This tool is totally changing how we run our kitchen. Things are much smoother now."
- Linda Smith, Chef de Cuisine,
“Meez makes executing a recipe a breeze. We've been so impressed."
- Geoff Kornberg, Executive Chef
“We've been shocked by how quick the onboarding has been for us."
- Dan Kluger, Executive Chef
“This tool is totally changing how we run our kitchen."
- Linda Smith, Gramercy Tavern
“This tool is totally changing how we run our kitchen."
- Linda Smith, Gramercy Tavern
“This tool is totally changing how we run our kitchen."
- Linda Smith, Gramercy Tavern
Why wE We're Here
How it works
The right tool didn't exist. So we built meez.
Read the full story here1
Ideate & record
Brainstorm ideas and add notes, create new recipes, and easily transfer your spreadsheets, docs, and scans to meez.
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Organize & search
Build and organize your database of content with recipe books and menus. Use keyword search to find what you need instantly.
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Collaborate & share
Grant view and edit permissions to your team members, publish edits and comments, and manage multiple versions of recipes.
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Train & execute
Keep your team up-to-date with your explicit vision. Every team member can view, scale, and convert recipes simultaneously.
Features?
Oui Chef.
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Use built-in ingredient yields & conversions
meez’s built-in recipe engine contains thousands of ingredients with yields and conversions so your recipe costing and scaling becomes a breeze.
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Experience the slickest scaling you've ever seen
½ batch, 8X batch, custom yield batch? No problem. Simply pick a batch size or punch in the quantity of one ingredient, and watch the whole recipe scale itself.
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Build menus and
manage prep lists
Easily create as many custom menus as you like. Plan, analyze, and refine. And, coming soon, use your menus to create flexible prep lists.
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Connect to your restaurant management system
Ensure the data in your restaurant management system is always in sync with what you’re actually cooking. Achieve scary-accurate theoretical food costs.
How it works
Frequently asked questions
Other questions? Contact us.How long does onboarding take?
Typically, depending on how many recipes you have, we can get you set up anywhere from under a day to within a week. The next step is getting your team up to speed and your kitchen set up to start using meez. We suggest using meez on tablets and phones for the best experience, but printing works great too. And our team is here to advise you on the best way to implement meez into your organization.
How do I get my recipes into meez?
Quickly and easily. Oh, you mean like how... A few ways: copy from your excel or word files, type them, or just send them our way, we can upload them for you! The faster we get your recipes in, the sooner you’ll wonder how you managed all your content before meez. And we strongly recommend adding photos and videos to your recipes, which you can do with ease in the app.
How is meez different than a restaurant management system?
Well, first off, we’re just not that. We’re not your inventory, or your purchasing tool, or your financial reporting. Those systems are integral and help you manage your costs. They exist to optimize your restaurant operations.
meez exists to help you and your team cook smarter. We are focused on how you experience recipes, how you iterate, how you train, stay organized, and marshal your team to precision and proper execution. meez can certainly help you manage your costs, though our deeper aspiration is to ensure that when you want the scum skimmed from your stock or the sear on the meat to be deep golden brown, your team sees how and knows why.
meez exists to help you and your team cook smarter. We are focused on how you experience recipes, how you iterate, how you train, stay organized, and marshal your team to precision and proper execution. meez can certainly help you manage your costs, though our deeper aspiration is to ensure that when you want the scum skimmed from your stock or the sear on the meat to be deep golden brown, your team sees how and knows why.
The meez story
meez is inspired by the same principles applied to great cooking– an uncompromising attention to detail and a constant drive to evolve and improve.
What the team has built is the culmination of so many lessons learned from stages of my own personal experience as a chef and entrepreneur, so we thought it best to present the story of meez as a timeline.
Our hope is that meez will become the home for all of your recipes, menus, and ideas for as long as you continue to cook. And the meez team will continually strive to build new and innovative ways for you to experience and share your content.
Josh Sharkey
Founder of meez
What the team has built is the culmination of so many lessons learned from stages of my own personal experience as a chef and entrepreneur, so we thought it best to present the story of meez as a timeline.
Our hope is that meez will become the home for all of your recipes, menus, and ideas for as long as you continue to cook. And the meez team will continually strive to build new and innovative ways for you to experience and share your content.
Josh Sharkey
Founder of meez
1999-2000: The First Notebooks
I began cooking in restaurants around age 16, and in 1999, I started culinary school and cooking full-time.
I was learning so much, and I began writing down everything in a little spiral notebook: all of my ideas, what I was learning, and what I was eating and tasting. One little spiral notebook turned into 2, then 5, and soon, more than I could count.
Unfortunately for me, between my terrible handwriting and the fading paper, my early notebooks are pretty much illegible now…
I was learning so much, and I began writing down everything in a little spiral notebook: all of my ideas, what I was learning, and what I was eating and tasting. One little spiral notebook turned into 2, then 5, and soon, more than I could count.
Unfortunately for me, between my terrible handwriting and the fading paper, my early notebooks are pretty much illegible now…
2001-2008: A cook's life
I learned an unbelievable amount working in the kitchens of chef Gray Kunz, Floyd Cardoz, David Bouley and Rick Moonen.
In 2003, while working for Chef Floyd by night, I also spent my mornings working for free rinsing pig intestines in a Salumeria, so I could learn how to make charcuterie.Every meticulous detail of the process—time, temperature, humidity, proper tying and hanging, good bacteria, fat content, etc–all ended up in the notebook I was using at the time.
Then one day, while trailing at another restaurant, I lost that notebook! I was devastated and vowed to never lose a notebook or a recipe again.
And thus, the idea that would grow to become Meez, was born.
In 2003, while working for Chef Floyd by night, I also spent my mornings working for free rinsing pig intestines in a Salumeria, so I could learn how to make charcuterie.Every meticulous detail of the process—time, temperature, humidity, proper tying and hanging, good bacteria, fat content, etc–all ended up in the notebook I was using at the time.
Then one day, while trailing at another restaurant, I lost that notebook! I was devastated and vowed to never lose a notebook or a recipe again.
And thus, the idea that would grow to become Meez, was born.
2009-2016: Running a business
In 2009 I opened a fast-casual concept called Bark Hot Dogs with a business partner. Our mission: taking the same commitment to technique we apply in fine dining to execute classic American fast food.
We quickly realized that translating technical cooking skills to a team of cooks that had never worked in a kitchen before required a methodical approach to documenting and training.
In just a single recipe like Baked Beans, a cook needed to learn to sweat an onion, cook bacon lardon, soak dried beans, clean & smoke trotters, braise, tie a proper sachet, and more–a heck of a lot, especially for someone who's never picked up a knife before.
Through this experience, the vision for meez began to expand far beyond simply capturing recipes and ideas. And thus began a new journey: aligning a love of cooking with a newfound obsession–leveraging technology to promote better cooking and have an everlasting impact on our industry.
We quickly realized that translating technical cooking skills to a team of cooks that had never worked in a kitchen before required a methodical approach to documenting and training.
In just a single recipe like Baked Beans, a cook needed to learn to sweat an onion, cook bacon lardon, soak dried beans, clean & smoke trotters, braise, tie a proper sachet, and more–a heck of a lot, especially for someone who's never picked up a knife before.
Through this experience, the vision for meez began to expand far beyond simply capturing recipes and ideas. And thus began a new journey: aligning a love of cooking with a newfound obsession–leveraging technology to promote better cooking and have an everlasting impact on our industry.
2016-2019: Development begins
I spent the next few years researching and soliciting friends and colleagues for input on what I was building.
And with the help of a small team, I began analyzing thousands of ingredients that would eventually become the Meez ingredient database.
After sharing the vision for meez with the founders of Aurify brands, an NYC based hospitality incubator, they believed in the product enough to help fund the project.
With a long road ahead developing Meez, I also began developing menus and creating an R&D process for Aurify, eventually also becoming the COO of Aurify.
The Meez team began full-time development of the tool in 2018. Aurify to date has been instrumental in allowing Meez to incubate within a hospitality company, allowing for constant feedback and iteration.
And with the help of a small team, I began analyzing thousands of ingredients that would eventually become the Meez ingredient database.
After sharing the vision for meez with the founders of Aurify brands, an NYC based hospitality incubator, they believed in the product enough to help fund the project.
With a long road ahead developing Meez, I also began developing menus and creating an R&D process for Aurify, eventually also becoming the COO of Aurify.
The Meez team began full-time development of the tool in 2018. Aurify to date has been instrumental in allowing Meez to incubate within a hospitality company, allowing for constant feedback and iteration.
2020: Now we're cooking
After 2 years of development, Meez is ready to be shared with the world. We're giving a number of hand-picked chefs, mixologists, and teams early access to Meez.
The Meez Story
Overview
1999-2001
2001-2008
2009-2016
2016-2019
2020
Overview
Meez is inspired by the same principles applied to great cooking- an uncompromising attention to detail and a constant drive to evolve and improve.
What we have built is the culmination of so many lessons learned from stages of my own personal experience as a chef and entrepreneur, we thought it best to present the story of meez as a timeline.
My hope is that Meez will become the home for all of your recipes, menus, and ideas for as long as you continue to cook. And the Meez team will continually strive to build new and innovative ways for you to experience and share your content.
- Josh Sharkey, Founder
Frequently Asked Questions
Other questions?
Contact us.
How is Meez different than a restaurant management system?
Well, first off, we’re just not that. We’re not your inventory, or your purchasing tool, or your financial reporting. Those systems are integral and help you manage your costs. They exist to optimize your restaurant operations.
Meez exists to help you and your team cook smarter. We are focused on how you experience recipes, how you iterate, how you train, stay organized, and marshal your team to precision and proper execution. Meez can certainly help you manage your costs, though our deeper aspiration is to ensure that when you want the scum skimmed from your stock or the sear on the meat to be deep golden brown, your team sees how and knows why.
Meez exists to help you and your team cook smarter. We are focused on how you experience recipes, how you iterate, how you train, stay organized, and marshal your team to precision and proper execution. Meez can certainly help you manage your costs, though our deeper aspiration is to ensure that when you want the scum skimmed from your stock or the sear on the meat to be deep golden brown, your team sees how and knows why.
How do I get my recipes into Meez?
Quickly and easily. Oh, you mean like how... A few ways: copy from your excel or word files, type them, or just send them our way, we can upload them for you! The faster we get your recipes in, the sooner you’ll wonder how you managed all your content before meez. And we strongly recommend adding photos and videos to your recipes, which you can do with ease in the app.
How long does onboarding take?
Typically, depending on how many recipes you have, we can get you set up anywhere from under a day to within a week. The next step is getting your team up to speed and your kitchen set up to start using Meez. We suggest using Meez on tablets and phones for the best experience, but printing works great too. And our team is here to advise you on the best way to implement Meez into your organization.
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