meez — For Culinary Directors & VPs of Culinary
For Culinary Leaders

You didn't become a culinary leader to chase down recipe versions.

meez gives growing culinary teams one live system of record for every recipe — so your food costs are accurate, your kitchens execute consistently, and your chefs stay focused on cooking.

Menu Engineering — Q4 Overview
Live
🍖
Seared Duck Breast
22.4%
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Braised Short Rib
24.8%
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Wild Mushroom Risotto
31.1%
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Pan-Roasted Halibut
27.2%
26.4%
3 days
avg. time to go live with costed recipes
−3.2%
After swap model
4/4
Locations synced

Trusted by 35,000+ culinary professionals

City Barbecue True Food Kitchen Just Salad Blue Ribbon Maman APICII RMD Group
The Problem

Your recipes are outpacing your systems.

You updated a recipe spec. Three locations are still running the old one. Food cost is creeping, a dish is being plated four different ways, and you're spending your day in spreadsheets instead of on the floor.

The binders, the Google Docs, the shared folders — they worked when you had two locations. They don't scale. And every time ingredient prices shift, you're flying blind on margin.

→ There's a better way to run a multi-unit culinary program.
01Profit

Your recipes are your margins. Treat them that way.

meez connects your culinary specs directly to your food cost — so you know exactly what every dish costs before it hits the menu, and the moment an ingredient price changes.

  • Model ingredient swaps and pricing scenarios to see margin impact instantly
  • Live purchasing data keeps recipe costing current automatically — no manual updates
  • Menu engineering gives you full profitability visibility across your entire menu
  • Roll out seasonal updates and spec changes to every location in one step
"It used to take me at least a week to cost a new menu… now it's all one step and I can do it in a day."

Menu Engineering

Q4 Autumn Menu — Cost Overview

Seared Duck Breast22.4%↓ 2.1pts
Wild Mushroom Risotto31.1%↑ 3.4pts
Braised Short Rib24.8%↓ 0.6pts
Pan Roasted Halibut27.2%
Avg Food Cost26.4%
−3.2%
After ingredient swap model

Recipe Hub — Live Sync

Braised Short Rib v4.1 — Updated 2 min ago

Downtown Flagship
Up to date
Midtown North
Up to date
Uptown West
Up to date
Airport Terminal
Up to date
4 / 4
Locations on latest spec
02Consistency

One recipe. Every location. No exceptions.

When you update a recipe in meez, every kitchen gets it immediately. No version chaos. No wondering which binder is current.

  • One central, live recipe hub every team member accesses from any device
  • Step-by-step photos and videos built into every recipe step so new cooks train to your standard
  • Automatic batch scaling and unit conversions eliminate human error on the line
  • Activity logs let you monitor usage and confirm specs are being followed
"meez has played a pivotal role in ensuring recipe uniformity and staff accountability. Real-time updates have eliminated errors and been a significant time saver."
03Adoption

Built for chefs. Fast enough for your whole team to actually use it.

You've seen rollouts fail because the tool was too clunky. meez was designed by chefs who lived that frustration — so your line cooks and executive chefs will actually open it.

  • AI-powered recipe importer gets your entire library in the system in days, not weeks
  • Clean, intuitive UX your team adopts without IT involvement or hand-holding
  • Recipes organized by station, menu, allergen, location, or concept
  • Integrates with back-office systems like Restaurant365 and POS systems such as Toast
"Introducing this software to our staff was so easy… everyone immediately goes to meez instead of our paper recipes."

Recipe Step — Embedded Media

Smoked Brisket — Prep Guide

1
Season short ribs with kosher salt and black pepper. Allow to rest 15 min.
📷 Photo▶ Video
2
Sear in cast iron over high heat, 3 min per side until deep mahogany crust forms.
📷 Photo
3
Deglaze with red wine, reduce by half. Add mirepoix and stock.
3 days
Avg time to go live

Integrations & Data Flow

meez as your culinary source of truth

🧾R365
📊MarginEdge
🔗xtraCHEF
meez pushes live data
📦Purchasing
💰Food Cost
📈Reporting
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Live
Purchasing data sync
04Finance

Stop translating between the kitchen and finance.

Your recipes are the origin of every food cost — but that data has always been invisible to the people running the P&L. meez changes that.

  • Structured recipe data flows directly into your ERP and purchasing systems
  • Finance gets cost reports built on accurate, real-time culinary data
  • Chefs write recipes the way they always have — meez converts them into data ops can trust
  • Walk into any budget conversation backed by real numbers from the kitchen
"It takes 1/25th of the time to cost ingredients with meez's live purchasing data."
By the numbers

Real kitchens. Real savings. Real impact.

15–25%
reduction in plated food cost reported by meez operators
3 days
average time to go live with fully costed recipes
70%
faster new staff training with embedded photos and video in recipes
35k+
culinary professionals already trusting meez daily
Getting started

Live in days, not months.

No IT project required. Most culinary teams have costed recipes running in meez within 3 days.

1

Import your recipes

Paste, upload, or let the AI importer handle it. Google Docs and spreadsheets transfer fast — no manual re-entry.

AI-Powered
2

Connect purchasing data

Link your invoices and suppliers. Costs update automatically — your team never manually updates a price again.

Live Sync
3

Invite your team

Every chef and cook gets your live recipe library on any device. Every update you make reaches every kitchen instantly.

Instant Access
4

Push to back office

Your ERP and reporting tools get accurate, recipe-level data. Food cost and purchasing decisions get cleaner.

Integrations
Common questions

We've heard the hesitations.
Here's the reality.

"We've tried tools like this before and they never stuck."

Our answer

Most recipe tools are built as reporting layers for finance. meez was built for kitchens first — which is why chefs use it, data stays accurate, and it actually works.

"We don't have bandwidth for a long implementation."

Our answer

There isn’t one. The AI importer handles migration. Built-in conversions eliminate manual rework. Most teams are fully operational within a week.

"Will it work with the systems we're already using?"

Our answer

meez integrates with back-office systems like Restaurant365 and POS systems such as Toast. It’s designed to make your existing systems more valuable — not replace them.

"Will my line cooks actually use it?”

Our answer

meez was built by chefs — the UX is clean enough that kitchen teams pick it up without hand-holding. Chef adoption is the reason the data stays accurate and the system delivers results.

What culinary leaders say

Results that speak for themselves.

15–25%
reduction in plated food cost
1/25th
the time to cost ingredients
70%
faster new staff training
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These past few years, we've had to re-engineer our menu because we saw a 30% increase in cost of goods. meez was invaluable — we could see what the cost would be after switching the ingredients and quantities. It helped us make our dishes more affordable without sacrificing what made them great.

Corporate Executive Chef, multi-unit group
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After seeing how important it was to have the staff do more pre-portioning, we have lowered our plated costs in the area of 15% to 25%. The visibility meez gives us made that possible.

Director of Culinary
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meez has played a pivotal role in ensuring recipe uniformity and staff accountability. Real-time updates have eliminated errors and been a significant time saver.

VP of Culinary
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It used to take me at least a week to cost a new menu… now it's all one step and I can do it in a day. The team adopted it immediately.

Corporate Executive Chef
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Staff already can't seem to live without it… streamlining training in a big way. We're solving consistency and costing issues in one place.

Director of Culinary
Ready to simplify?

Your recipes are your margins.
meez helps you protect and grow both.

See how meez supports growing culinary organizations — and bring real numbers into your next leadership conversation.

Live in 3 days No IT project required Integrates with your stack Built by chefs, for chefs