Recipe management for restaurants

With the free account: search recipes, save favourites, scale quantities and up to 5 own recipes.

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Sign up for free, core features stay free. In Standard, you create up to 100 own recipes. The limit in Premium is on the Plans page. Costing from these recipes is included from Standard and described on the Costing page.

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Search public recipes

You search the public collection by title or category and filter by the categories the collection offers. The results are split into pages. You do not need an account for this. When logged in, you see the sections All recipes, My recipes and Favourites.

Where maintained, the recipe page shows the category, description, yield, ingredients with quantity and unit, the preparation and further parts with their own ingredients and their own steps.

Save favourites

You save a favourite in your account. Without logging in, the button takes you to the login. Saving favourites is included in the free account.

The list shows saved recipes that are still publicly visible. A favourite is not your own copy. It opens the public recipe again.

Scale quantities

Next to the ingredients, you change the display. The fields are for the scaling factor, the desired portions and the desired target quantity. If the recipe has a portion size, there is also a field for the quantity per portion. The factor multiplies every quantity that is a number. Desired portions set the factor from the recipe's number of portions, if this is stored. A target quantity uses the stored total quantity. The unit stays the same. Grams do not turn into another unit by themselves.

Quantities without a number stay as they are. The display can say how many such quantities the recipe has. The original recipe stays until you edit and save the recipe. The reset to original button only resets the display.

On your own recipe, you set how the display should behave. Proportional: the quantities follow the factor. Whole batches only: the display jumps to complete batches, without a fraction as the factor. Without this setting, the displayed quantities stay at the original, and you change the numbers in the recipe yourself.

The display is a reading aid for production. It is not the costing. Cost per portion, yield in euros and the contribution margin I are on the Costing page.

Create your own recipes

Your own recipe is stored in the account that stores it. The form is divided into basic details, yield, scaling, ingredients, preparation and components. Components are optional, for example a dough or a sauce as a part. This does not make the recipe appear in the public collection.

On a public recipe, you take over the details as a draft into your own recipes. You change what you want to change. Only saving creates the recipe in the account and counts it against the limit. The public recipe stays unchanged.

Folders hold your own recipes. You see one folder, the recipes without a folder or the whole list.

Limits

With the free account: search recipes, save favourites, scale quantities and up to 5 own recipes.

In Standard, up to 100 own recipes. The limit in Premium is on the Plans page. The count is per user account, meaning per login that creates the recipe.

When the limit is reached, you can still edit and delete. You cannot create new ones until there is space again or the plan has a higher limit.

Printing

On your own recipe, you open the "Print recipe" view. The button is called "Print". The saved quantity is printed, not the display you have just scaled. You see the title, description, category and yield, where present, the ingredients with quantity, unit, name and note, the preparation and the further parts of the recipe.

If a company profile is set up, the company name with contact details appears above the recipe. Otherwise the printout starts with the recipe. You start the printout in the browser. The costing PDF is a different output and is described on the Costing page.

Working with costing

From Standard, your own recipe becomes a costing: purchase prices, yield, cost per portion, selling price based on your target food cost, contribution margin I. In the free account, the path ends at search, favourite, scaling and the up to 5 own recipes.

The cost basis is the saved quantities. The scaled display does not change it. You save new quantities in the recipe and take over the recipe version in the costing. Saved costing versions stay unchanged.

One active costing variant per recipe is included in Standard. Several active variants per recipe are included in Premium. The variant does not change the recipe.

Without an account, you see the process with a fixed sample in the costing demo. The demo does not create a recipe of your own and stores nothing.

Roles and permissions

The kitchen management maintains own recipes, yield and the behaviour of the quantity display. The shift changes the display for service and resets it. Whoever does the purchasing maintains the prices in costing, from Standard. The software has no roles called head chef or shift lead for this.

Each person gets their own login. Which areas they see in staff, rota, temperature checks and tasks, you set in the company account. There is no separate line there just for recipes.

All locations of your company run in one company account, with no extra charge per location. The limit for own recipes remains the limit per user account.

Who it suits

In a restaurant, you search for the dish, set the display to the evening's quantity and reset it. You do not read the menu price from this display. For that, you save a version in costing. If the dish is missing from the account, you take over a public template. The copy counts against 5 or against 100, depending on the plan.

In a hotel, the menu and a larger meal share one recipe. You only change the display. You read the purchase quantity with yield in costing. Two properties are two locations in the same company account.

In canteens and contract catering, you enter the day's portions. Recipes that only make sense as a whole batch you set to whole batches. Two target values for the same recipe are two active variants and need Premium.

In catering, the scaled display is the list at production. The printout uses the saved quantity. If you want a different quantity on paper, save it in the recipe first. The order list from the store is part of inventory, included in Premium.

At the bar, one glass is the saved quantity, the next round is a factor. Quantities without a number stay as they are. You maintain the price per litre and the yield in costing. The house drink counts as an own recipe against the account's limit.

Plans

Standard covers one company account with up to 20 active staff plus the owner. Premium covers one company account with up to 50 active staff plus the owner. More than 50 active staff: Custom, via Contact.

You sign up for free, without a credit card. You then book Standard or Premium in the app under Profile, then Plan, by card or SEPA direct debit. Euro prices are only on the Plans page.

Existing personal subscriptions continue on their terms and are separate from the company plans.

What this feature does not do

The recipe page does not convert units and does not calculate food cost. Both belong to costing, from Standard. If a conversion is missing there, the line stays open.

The scaled display is not a second saved recipe. The printout uses the saved quantity, not the display factor.

A shared library for the business and a history of every change are not included. Included are search, favourites, the quantity display and own recipes per user account.

mnjam.mnjam does not calculate several dishes as one combined result. Recipe management does not calculate a month's consumption from stock levels.

First steps

Sign up for free. Search for a public recipe, change the quantity and reset the display. Save the recipe as a favourite.

Take it over into your own recipes, change one detail and save. The copy counts as one of 5 in the free account. Put the recipe in a folder and open "Print recipe".

On the recipe, set whether the display follows proportionally, uses whole batches only or stays at the original. When prices come in, book Standard or Premium and save the version on the Costing page.

Keep an eye on the limit: up to 5 in the free account, up to 100 in Standard. The limit in Premium is on the Plans page.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What can I use without a plan?

With the free account: search recipes, save favourites, scale quantities and up to 5 own recipes. Sign up for free, core features stay free.

Do I need an account to read or to change the quantity?

No. Reading and the quantity display work without an account. Favourites and own recipes need a login.

What is a favourite?

A saved public recipe. Not a recipe of your own. The list shows favourites that are still publicly visible.

Does scaling convert into other units?

No. The number is multiplied, the unit stays the same. Costing calculates the purchase quantity with yield.

How many own recipes can I create?

Up to 5 in the free account, up to 100 in Standard. The limit in Premium is on the Plans page. When the limit is reached, you can still edit and delete.

Does a template I take over count?

Yes, once you save it. Before that, it is a draft. The public recipe stays unchanged.

What does the print view print?

The saved quantity of your own recipe. Not the display you have just scaled. You start the printout in the browser.

Does scaling change the costing?

No. The cost basis remains the saved quantity. Saved versions stay unchanged.

From when is cost per portion included?

From Standard. Without an account, only in the demo with a fixed sample.

Does everyone in the business see the same own recipes?

The limit belongs to the user account that creates the recipes. You set permissions for staff, rota, temperature and tasks in the company account.