Products
Recipes & ingredients
Link every ingredient to every dish. See exact costs, prepare faster, order smarter.
Your menu isn't just a list of dishes, it's a network of ingredients, quantities, and prep steps. Catermonkey lets you define a recipe for each product: which ingredients go in, how much you need, and what you spend.
- Link ingredients with exact quantities per dish or package
- Automatic cost-price calculation from ingredient data
- Sub-recipe support: embed one product's ingredients inside another
- Net-quantity overrides for trimmed, cooked, or reduced ingredients
- Free-text preparation instructions on every product
- One-click recipe download formatted for kitchen staff
Enter the ingredients for a dish and their quantities. The system calculates ingredient cost in real time, so you know your margin before you quote. Mark sub-recipes (bases you use across multiple dishes) and the platform rolls up their ingredient costs automatically.
Set net quantities after prep, the amount that remains once an ingredient is trimmed, cooked, or reduced. This keeps your shopping lists honest and your kitchen efficient.
Add free-text preparation instructions to each product. They appear on order overviews and prep lists, so kitchen staff and event teams see exactly how to plate, cook, or present the dish.
All ingredient data feeds into your preparation lists and shopping aggregations. Change a recipe once; every order, quote, and cost calculation updates immediately.
Who benefits
Business owner
You see real food cost on every product before you price it.
Sales / account manager
You can show clients exactly what goes into a dish when they ask.
Kitchen manager
Your team gets ingredient lists and prep notes in one place, no hunting for recipes.
Chef
You control the recipe; the system keeps costs and shopping lists in sync.
Accounting
You trace every euro back to the ingredients that drove it.