Meal planning
Having full control over meal content, nutritional value, and climate impact is as challenging as it is important. At the same time, demands from regulations, laws, customers, and diners are constantly increasing. Manual, inefficient methods for planning, producing, serving, and delivering meals are no longer an option. The need for digital meal planning has never been greater.
The benefits of digital meal planning
Save time
Avoid manual work at every step: planning, ordering, production, and serving.
Increase quality
Ensure the right meal, with the right content, to the right guest - every time.
Reduce costs
Use data to optimize your budget and minimize overproduction.
Reduce climate impact
Align purchases and menus with your climate goals and reduce food waste.
Let the system handle the routine tasks
Managing recipes in binders, calculating nutritional values using Excel, or collecting meal orders on paper forms is extremely time-consuming. It also increases the risk of mistakes and errors that can have serious consequences for both the meal organization and the individual diner.
With a digital meal planning system, you can:
- Automatically calculate nutritional value, climate impact, and cost per portion for each meal as you plan your menu.
- Offer customers and diners the option to order meals from a digital menu with appetizing images—directly on their mobile devices.
- Streamline and ensure quality in kitchen operations with automated production lists, delivery notes, and labels.
Serve safe food
Whether meals are served in a restaurant, delivered to a receiving kitchen, or sent as ready-made meal boxes, it’s crucial that the right meal reaches the right guest. However, if orders are managed via paper forms, sticky notes, or phone calls, it quickly becomes impossible to keep track of allergens and special diets. Instead, gather all information about customers, orders, and meals in one place to ensure nothing slips through the cracks.
With a digital meal planning solution, you get:
- Accurate forecasts and reduced overproduction by collecting all meal orders digitally.
- Safe and reliable handling of special diets with clear menus, labels, and delivery notes.
- Efficient production and documentation for smooth, safe, and traceable meals.
Use your budget wisely
As food prices rise rapidly, it’s crucial to monitor purchases and adjust menus to get the most value from your budget. Digitalization is the first step toward transparency and cost control.
With digital meal planning, you can:
- Instantly and automatically calculate cost per portion as you plan your menu.
- Easily adjust the menu and swap ingredients if the price of a certain raw material has increased significantly.
- Minimize overproduction and food waste with accurate forecasts of raw material needs.
Accelerate your sustainability efforts
Sustainability goals must not remain mere paperwork. They need to be a natural part of the organization’s daily operations. To achieve this, clear communication, key metric tracking, and engagement are essential. Digital meal planning helps you make climate-smart choices, measure the carbon footprint of meals, and drive efforts to reduce food waste.
With digital meal planning, you can:
- Calculate the meal’s carbon footprint directly in the system as you plan your menu.
- Display climate impact values on the menu to help diners make climate-smart choices.
- Measure food waste and track key metrics in monthly reports.
“Matilda is absolutely central to our work. It provides us with a comprehensive menu analysis so we can ensure quality across the entire menu and every single meal. If a recipe stands out, for example in terms of climate impact, we can easily swap an ingredient to make sure we stay within the right levels.” – Katarina Hiding, Menu Planner, Västra Götaland Region, Sweden.