How Smart Recipe Management Drives Profitability and Consistency

These past few years, we've had to re-engineer our menu because we saw a 30% increase in the cost of goods across the board. meez was invaluable when we did this because we could see what the cost would be after switching the ingredients and quantities. It helped us make our dishes more affordable.

We probably save 4-5 hours a week and have reduced any scaling errors by a lot with meez. New recipe development and testing is also so much easier. We can quickly and easily change the recipe and adjust baker's percentages incrementally.

meez gives my team a resource to execute recipes and techniques to exactly my specifications, while creating more consistent service and happier customers.

It’s so quick to cost recipes. It takes 1/4 of the time to cost them and we have live purchasing data which is really, really helpful. The big thing is our chefs don’t need to sit and update costs, it’s all automated.

“meez is our stable starting point for recipe development and menu development. It saves us multiple hours a week and just creates this level of efficiency that we wouldn't have otherwise. Just the simple accessibility of it saves us so much time.”

“We opened two restaurants on the same day for the first time ever, which was only made possible by having all recipes readily available. meez has really been a workhorse for us. It’s become a backbone for our business.”

“The ultimate goal is to make something delicious that we can handle to make as a team that’s not too expensive for our guests so that we can continue serving our guests rather than going belly up. meez makes our costing process very precise.”

We looked into many programs that were designed to be the ‘back office’ system for recipes, costing, and inventory, but none were built to be an intuitive database the way meez is.

It used to take me at least a week to cost a new menu and have training manuals, recipe books and allergen guides. Now it's all one step and I can do it in a day.

My favorite feature is that I can scale recipes up or down, depending on how much I need that week. I also really like the costing feature- the work in conversions that meez does for you saves me a lot of time.

Meez takes it to another efficiency level by giving the recipe writer the option to choose the percentage based on 100% of total ingredients vs a Baker's Percentage...so convenient.

The platform has been instrumental in making it work for us not having a pastry chef on site at our current locations. The program allows me to give all the details I would in person, videos, pictures and the ability to scale recipes.

I think the best part about meez is that it puts us all on the same page. For an industry that relies so heavily on consistency, it’s not always easy to actually create it. meez really does a good job of making it easy for us to eliminate friction caused by miscommunication or recipe discrepancies.

I love how you can enter videos into the prep method… For us it’s really valuable if we’re trying to show someone how to top a cookie. When I say a “drizzle” I know exactly what I mean, but you might mean it’s something different. meez allows the recipe to show the exact technique.

meez is 100% saving me time and money. The recipe organization features make it easy to scale a recipe from 10 servings to 500 servings. It is also very cool that meez determined average weights on ingredients, so converting from volume measurements to weights is crazy simple.