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From person to plate.
Connected by MagicMenu.

AI-powered software connects each guest’s needs to your menu, products and kitchen.

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Your team stays in control.

Six connected stages. One coordinated kitchen.

01 / Know

Know the person.

Bring dietary needs, preferences and meal counts into one clear starting point.

  • Dietary needs & preferences
  • Guest and resident profiles
  • Meal counts
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52 technologies across 6 areas · 19 running today

Know the person

10 technologies5 running today

In your kitchen this means every need is captured once, under your own policy, before the guest arrives — and the count for tonight is a number, not a guess.

RunningDietary intake (MagicLink form)

A five-step form in your branding: your policy acknowledged first, then who the guest is, their details, their meal path — the regular line, the accommodated line, or bring-your-own — and a review. Allergies and how serious they are come in early; families need no account; the link is pasted into registration emails or into CampBrain.

What it producesCompleted dietary profiles, and completion tracking with one-click reminders.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 01

RunningRegistration-system roster import

Your registration system's nightly export — page furniture, continuation rows and all — is read into one roster, with restrictions mapped to profiles.

What it producesRosters, per session.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 02

RunningGroups, sessions & master list

Every session, guest group, retreat and program with its coordinator and status; one canonical people list; reusable named groups; sessions linked to groups.

What it producesThe master list, session pages, group records.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 03

RunningMeal counts (staff and pack-out lunches included)

Every coinciding group and the staff rolled into one number per meal by path — regular, accommodated, bring-your-own — with a pack-out lunch column and a drill-down to the person: who is on the accommodated line tonight, and why.

What it producesDaily counts that flow to the chef.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

The meal-count roll-up for one week: every group and the staff, one number per meal, the accommodated count broken out.
The meal-count roll-up for one week: every group and the staff, one number per meal, the accommodated count broken out.

Technology 05

RunningDietary policy configuration

Which accommodations you offer, the allergens you handle, the “not celiac-certified, cross-contact possible” disclosure families acknowledge, and the notice you need — set once, and carried into the form and onto the service cards.

What it producesThe policy in force.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 06

Test & validationCalendar

Program-colored bars across the fiscal year; a click on a day filters the master list to who is on site.

What it producesThe season calendar.

Seen in use: our working mockup (built for the camp's programs)

Technology 04

Test & validationIntake-form configurator

Every screen, field and option of the intake form editable with a live preview, then published to the link.

What it producesA facility-branded form.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 07

Test & validationHousehold RSVP & profiles

Per-household RSVP by magic link: who is coming to which meals, with dietary profiles that belong to people, not to the event.

What it producesPer-person meal grids.

Seen in use: the reunion field test · the consumer app

Technology 08

ConceptDiet-order feeds from care platforms

Diet orders arriving from a care platform straight into the roster, so a change at care conference reaches tomorrow's trays.

What it producesRoster updates from diet orders.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 09

ConceptFamily & guest portal

A family's own view of their resident's meals, verification and substitution notes.

What it producesA family view.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 10

Plan the food

9 technologies4 running today

In your kitchen this means one menu everyone shares, adapted only where it must be, costed to the serving, with the clinical variants checked by a dietitian.

RunningDish & recipe library with adaptations

Components, yields, the gluten-free, dairy-free and nut-free adaptations per location, and the product bound to each ingredient.

What it producesRecipes and their adapted variants.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 12

RunningMenu configurator (the baseline week)

All 21 slots of your standard week configured dish by dish, every serving costed three ways — regular line, accommodated line, blended — with specials and alternates assigned to dates.

What it producesThe costed baseline week and the chef's grid.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 13

RunningMenu analysis

Cost by meal and by day; regular versus accommodated cost per serving; the week's nutrition against daily values; lower-cost swaps from your own catalog, checked for allergens before they are suggested; and a placement check for dishes that qualify for the accommodated line.

What it producesThe analysis console.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 14

RunningRecipe adaptation engine

Recipe variations proposed from the chef’s dish and the group’s dietary profiles, with ingredient and product checks to support the team’s review. Variations remain editable as the team balances food quality, cost and kitchen work.

What it producesAdapted variants.

Seen in use: the consumer app · the reunion field test

Technology 17

Test & validationRecipe ingestion & normalization

Recipe books, menus and invoices become dishes, components, canonical ingredients and the exact products behind them, each line tagged verified, benchmark or illustrative — and no product number is ever invented.

What it producesA dish library with product lineage.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (the menu workbook, two menu variants)

A dish traced to its components and to the exact products behind them.
A dish traced to its components and to the exact products behind them.

Technology 11

Test & validationMeal planner (weekly grid)

A week-by-session grid with conflict dots against your accommodation policy, dish suggestions by cuisine, condiments and beverages, and the shopping impact of each choice.

What it producesThe weekly plan.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 15

Test & validationSpecials, alternates & liturgical menus

Holiday, themed and liturgical menus — meatless Fridays, Lent — layered on the baseline week.

What it producesDated alternates.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 16

Test & validationClinical substitution library · RD review in progress

Thirty public-domain institutional base recipes at 100-serving scale, across eleven diet orders (renal, liberalized renal, cardiac/low sodium, low fat/low cholesterol, DASH, consistent carbohydrate, Crohn's/IBD, low FODMAP, GERD, calorie-controlled, high protein/high calorie), eight modifiers and every IDDSI level — each cell carrying its citation, its confidence and a flag when a dietitian still needs to check it. Being validated by a registered dietitian now.

What it producesThe substitution matrix skilled-nursing menus run on.

Seen in use: in validation with a registered dietitian

Technology 18

ConceptBaseline weekly meal-plan generation (skilled nursing)

Diet-order-aware weekly plans generated from the cycle menu and the clinical library.

What it producesWeekly plans by diet order.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 19

Buy it right

10 technologies4 running today

In your kitchen this means the order follows from the plan, every product is checked to its ingredient statement, and approved alternatives stay connected to the meal plan.

RunningProduct master & allergen enrichment

Your distributor's item master — more than 2,700 products at the camp — with allergen columns and ingredient statements, and every unverified line flagged rather than assumed safe.

What it producesThe allergen-verified item master.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 20

RunningShopping list & purchase order

The week's menus and counts become ingredient needs, then cases, then a purchase order on your existing distributor account, in one click.

What it producesThe shopping list and the purchase order.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (on the camp's own US Foods account)

The week's menus as a product-level shopping list, with allergen flags, and the one-click purchase order.
The week's menus as a product-level shopping list, with allergen flags, and the one-click purchase order.

Technology 23

RunningInvoice digitization

Paper and digital invoices become structured, searchable line items with supplier products, quantities and prices.

What it producesA searchable invoice library and digitized line items.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (eight invoices, 156 lines)

Technology 26

RunningInventory & pantry

On hand by product and lot, pars, and usage drawn down by production.

What it producesOn-hand counts.

Seen in use: the consumer app

Technology 28

Test & validationUniversal Product Graph

One canonical product across distributors, buying groups, manufacturers and grocers, with an allergen profile per product and a verification badge — verified, label-derived, unverified — and the matched offer from each source.

What it producesThe cross-vendor product graph.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 21

Test & validationProduct catalog with accommodation verdicts

Every configured vendor's items marked PASS, FAIL or UNKNOWN against your policy, filterable by storage and by gluten, dairy and nut criteria.

What it producesThe safe-to-buy catalog.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 22

Test & validationSubstitution checker & alternates search

The normal product against the substitute: a substitute may not introduce any allergen your policy names, and every such allergen must be verified absent — PASS or FAIL, side by side, with passing alternatives from your own catalog and a local retail fallback. The check was run by our team at the camp's go-live; the in-app checker is in our working mockup.

What it producesSubstitution verdicts and approved alternates.

Seen in use: our working mockup (by hand) · Annunciation Heights

Technology 24

Test & validationMulti-vendor comparison & sourcing studies

Broadline, regional, specialty, produce and retail fill-in compared on landed cost with allergen eligibility as a hard constraint; the ranking is compensation-blind by architecture. Done as studies today; automated routing is in design.

What it producesA sourcing study and approved-equivalent lists.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (vendor comparisons, invoice forensics)

Technology 25

Test & validationVendor configuration & integrations

Distributor accounts, delivery days and connection status — the vendor set every catalog and purchase order reads.

What it producesThe vendor set.

Seen in use: our working mockup (the camp's vendors)

Technology 29

ConceptContracts & entitlements · savings ledger · net-landed-cost gate

Buying-group and distributor agreements as machine-readable entitlements; routed spend against the baseline; the gate.

What it producesEntitlements, the ledger, the gate status.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 30

Cook it

7 technologies2 running today

In your kitchen this means a one-page pull sheet and a one-page cook sheet per meal, with the split, merge and clean-down steps written in, that a new helper can run.

RunningThis Week (the chef's production calendar)

Each meal with its dishes, plate counts by path, substitutions and restriction flags, on one screen.

What it producesThe chef's week.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 31

RunningProduction sheets, prep & pull lists

A one-page pull sheet and a one-page cook sheet per meal, from the counts and the recipes, ordered so nothing carries contact forward.

What it producesPull sheets and cook sheets.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (seven meals, with flowcharts) · the reunion field test

Technology 32

Test & validationThe timed plan (split, merge, clean-down)

When to pull, when to split a batch for the accommodated line, which tongs and which griddle section, and the clean-down before the accommodated item — one plan for one chef and a small crew.

What it producesThe timed service plan.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (the allergy-line week)

Technology 33

Test & validationGuided cooking (hands-free, by voice)

Step by step with timers, split points and equipment assignments; cleaning steps inserted wherever shared equipment would carry contact forward; a day-one hire follows the same plan as a veteran.

What it producesCook-mode guidance.

Seen in use: our working mockup (voice layer)

Technology 34

Test & validationKitchen & equipment configuration

Your equipment groups and staff roles, so production is scheduled on what actually exists.

What it producesThe kitchen profile.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 35

Test & validationOperational stress tests

A headcount surge, a cook out sick, an oven down, a diet change mid-service — run against the plan to find where it breaks. Done as an engagement analysis today; an automated overlay is in design.

What it producesStress-test findings.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (engagement analysis)

Technology 36

ConceptStation screens

Worker-facing screens on the line: what to make now, for whom, with which product.

What it producesOn-line instructions.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 37

Serve it — to the plate

9 technologies4 running today

In your kitchen this means the room is planned before service, every pan carries its card, and the plate reaches the person with someone who knows it is hers.

RunningService configurator (station layout)

The accommodated station, the shared station and the regular station, fifteen positions filled from the day's menu; the layout edited on one screen; the day's configuration printed in color, all three meals on one page.

What it producesThe serving configuration.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

A serving room planned before service: a main line along the top wall, a shared bar in the middle, an accommodated station on the left, beverages and dish return by the seating — with the diner flows for each line. Main-line diners take from the shared bar, then the main line, then beverages, then sit. Accommodated diners take from the shared bar, then the accommodated station, then beverages, then sit — never standing in line twice. SEATING MAIN LINEM-1 MAIN LINEM-2 MAIN LINEM-3 ACCOMMODATEDSTATION · A-1 to A-3 SHARED BARS-1 to S-3 BEVERAGES DISH RETURN ENTRANCE 123 123
A serving room and the two diner flows — the logic that planned a working camp's service, drawn as a room any buffet could be. Every station position is filled from the day's menu; the chef edits the layout on one screen and prints the day.

Technology 38

RunningService cards & labels

A 3-by-5 card for every pan — dish, line-color dot, “Allergens Present: Contains / Possible,” station code — generated from ingredient-level data, editable by the chef, reprinted in one click; fifteen per meal, blanks included.

What it producesThe cards on every pan.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Lasagna (meat)

Allergens Present

Contains: Gluten, Dairy

Possible: Soy

Station M-2 · Main line

Lasagna (GFDF)

Allergens Present

Contains: None flagged

Possible: Cross-contact (shared kitchen)

Station A-2 · Accommodated line

Recreated from the printed service cards; demonstration dishes.

Technology 39

RunningBirds-eye view & diner flows

The dining-hall plan with the accommodated diner's path and the regular diner's path, the dish return and the drink area — the same logic for a buffet inside the kitchen. The printed layouts planned the camp's service; the animated view is in our working mockup.

What it producesThe room plan.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (printed layouts; animated view) · our working mockup (animated view)

Technology 40

RunningPack-out lunches & trip meals

Field-day pack-outs counted by path on the day's counts; trip meals travel with the same discipline.

What it producesPack-out counts and labels.

Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

Technology 41

Test & validationTray cards (plated and tray service)

Name, location, diet, texture, allergens, items — the plate's identity, printed per meal.

What it producesTray cards.

Seen in use: our working mockup (skilled-nursing mode)

M.O.Testing

Location Maple Wing · Room 12

Diet Renal · Gluten-free

Texture IDDSI 7 · Regular

Allergens None flagged

Items Herb-baked cod · Mashed potatoes · Green beans · Applesauce (peach cup → applesauce — potassium)

Demonstration resident · real product output; the first skilled-nursing partner shapes the final card.

Technology 42

Test & validationSubstitutions in service

A substitution proposed at receiving, in production or at service, checked against every affected person's profile, with the approval logged.

What it producesValidated substitutions.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 43

ConceptPlate check

Verification of the finished plate against its expected components.

What it producesA plate record.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 44

ConceptHandoff & delivery tracking

Room trays, floor delivery, pickup — the plate reaching the person.

What it producesDelivery records.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 45

ConceptConnected e-ink labels

Planned: automatically refresh dish names and allergen information when the approved meal changes. MagicMenu sends label updates through a gateway to the serving line, reducing handwritten changes and the chance of leaving yesterday’s label in place.

What it produces4.2-inch guest labels, with clear dish names and allergen information.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 53

Prove it and settle up

7 technologies0 running today

In your kitchen this means what was served, wasted and substituted is a record, not a memory — and where a group shares the cost, the settlement is fair.

Test & validationReports

Plates served, cost per plate, waste, restriction coverage, spend.

What it producesOperating and cost reports.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 46

Test & validationPrint center

Everything printable in one place — rosters, cards, sheets, configurations. The individual prints — the cards, the configuration sheet, the production sheets — ran the camp season.

What it producesPrinted artifacts.

Seen in use: our working mockup (the prints themselves) · Annunciation Heights

Technology 47

Test & validationFairShare

Fair shares based on who actually ate — weighted by age, with contribution credits (reimbursed, gifted, capped, uncapped), shared pools, one running ledger, settle-up links and a true-up when plans change.

What it producesThe settlement.

Seen in use: the reunion field test (26 people, 10 households)

Technology 48

Test & validationOne spine, every role, every kitchen's language

The same system rendered as Event Coordination for a camp, Residents & Census for skilled nursing, Guests & Functions for a resort; each role sees only its work; software configuration per facility; organizations with many sites.

What it producesA facility's configuration.

Seen in use: our working mockup

Technology 52

ConceptThe locked service record

A tamper-evident snapshot of what was served, to whom and why — the record a surveyor asks for.

What it producesThe service record.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 49

ConceptCompliance packs

Survey- and audit-ready bundles: diet orders honored, substitutions validated, temperature logs, tray-card lineage (CMS F800–F814; FSMA 204).

What it producesSurvey packs.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 50

ConceptExceptions queue · temperature & HACCP logs

Everything that needs a human, in one place; time and temperature records tied to recipes and lots.

What it producesThe exceptions list; HACCP records.

Where it stands: specified, not yet built.

Technology 51

Nothing matches that combination.

Technology for each step.

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1

Understand your people & kitchen

6 of 14 running today

  • Dietary intake (MagicLink form)Running
  • Registration-system roster importRunning
  • Groups, sessions & master listRunning
  • Meal counts (staff and pack-out lunches included)Running
  • Dietary policy configurationRunning
  • Invoice digitizationRunning
  • CalendarTest & validation
  • Intake-form configuratorTest & validation
  • Household RSVP & profilesTest & validation
  • Recipe ingestion & normalizationTest & validation
  • Vendor configuration & integrationsTest & validation
  • Kitchen & equipment configurationTest & validation
  • Diet-order feeds from care platformsConcept
  • Family & guest portalConcept
2

Make your menu work for everyone

5 of 14 running today

  • Dish & recipe library with adaptationsRunning
  • Menu configurator (the baseline week)Running
  • Menu analysisRunning
  • Recipe adaptation engineRunning
  • Product master & allergen enrichmentRunning
  • Meal planner (weekly grid)Test & validation
  • Specials, alternates & liturgical menusTest & validation
  • Clinical substitution library · RD review in progressTest & validation
  • Universal Product GraphTest & validation
  • Product catalog with accommodation verdictsTest & validation
  • Substitution checker & alternates searchTest & validation
  • Multi-vendor comparison & sourcing studiesTest & validation
  • Baseline weekly meal-plan generation (skilled nursing)Concept
  • Contracts & entitlements · savings ledger · net-landed-cost gateConcept
3

Put the plan into practice

8 of 24 running today

  • Shopping list & purchase orderRunning
  • Inventory & pantryRunning
  • This Week (the chef's production calendar)Running
  • Production sheets, prep & pull listsRunning
  • Service configurator (station layout)Running
  • Service cards & labelsRunning
  • Birds-eye view & diner flowsRunning
  • Pack-out lunches & trip mealsRunning
  • The timed plan (split, merge, clean-down)Test & validation
  • Guided cooking (hands-free, by voice)Test & validation
  • Operational stress testsTest & validation
  • Tray cards (plated and tray service)Test & validation
  • Substitutions in serviceTest & validation
  • ReportsTest & validation
  • Print centerTest & validation
  • FairShareTest & validation
  • One spine, every role, every kitchen's languageTest & validation
  • Station screensConcept
  • Plate checkConcept
  • Handoff & delivery trackingConcept
  • The locked service recordConcept
  • Compliance packsConcept
  • Exceptions queue · temperature & HACCP logsConcept
  • Connected e-ink labelsConcept

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MagicMenu provides operational and informational support, not clinical, medical, or nutritional advice. Allergen-screened menus are built from ingredient screens against currently available product data; unknown data never passes a plate. They are subject to verification, and to the operator's own cross-contact controls, which reduce but cannot eliminate risk. Final ingredient, service, and guest-safety decisions rest with the operator. Guest information is handled under written agreements and appropriate privacy safeguards.

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