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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
52 technologies across 6 areas · 19 running today
Know the person
10 technologies5 running todayIn 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.
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.
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.
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.
Seen in use: Annunciation Heights

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 10
Plan the food
9 technologies4 running todayIn 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (the menu workbook, two menu variants)

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.
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.
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.
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 19
Buy it right
10 technologies4 running todayIn 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.
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.
Seen in use: Annunciation Heights (on the camp's own US Foods account)

Technology 23
RunningInvoice digitization
Paper and digital invoices become structured, searchable line items with supplier products, quantities and prices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 30
Cook it
7 technologies2 running todayIn 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 37
Serve it — to the plate
9 technologies4 running todayIn 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.
Seen in use: Annunciation Heights
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seen in use: our working mockup (skilled-nursing mode)
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.
Seen in use: our working mockup
Technology 43
ConceptPlate check
Verification of the finished plate against its expected components.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 44
ConceptHandoff & delivery tracking
Room trays, floor delivery, pickup — the plate reaching the person.
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 53
Prove it and settle up
7 technologies0 running todayIn 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Where it stands: specified, not yet built.
Technology 51
Nothing matches that combination.
Technology for each step.
See the three steps on Home →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
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
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
See it on your menu.
Thirty minutes with Dusty. Bring one dish and one diet order that gives your kitchen trouble.