Complete documentation for every feature in Kitchen Control.
Suppliers are the foundation of your ingredient costing and ordering system.
Ingredients can be linked to multiple suppliers. Kitchen Control automatically uses the cheapest cost per unit when calculating recipe costs.
Ingredients are the core of the Kitchen Control system. Every recipe, dish and allergen flows from accurate ingredient data.
Enter the pack size and pack cost to get an accurate cost per unit. If you buy by the case, enter the case size and case cost and Kitchen Control calculates the pack cost automatically.
Click Scan Ingredients Label to photograph the product packaging. Kitchen Control reads the ingredients list and automatically detects all 14 major allergens.
Scan supplier invoices to automatically update ingredient prices. Go to Dashboard → Import Invoice.
Yields calculate the true cost of a prepared ingredient by accounting for trim loss, cooking loss or portioning.
A yield takes a base ingredient and calculates the true cost per usable unit — giving significantly more accurate GP calculations.
Recipes combine ingredients, yields and other recipes into fully costed preparations.
Add ingredients, yields or sub-recipes as components. Enter quantities and units. Kitchen Control calculates the total cost and cost per yield unit automatically.
Set the recipe yield quantity and unit (portions, grams, litres etc.) so cost per unit displays correctly throughout the system.
Dishes combine recipes into customer-facing menu items with live GP% tracking.
Enter your sell price (inc. VAT) and Kitchen Control calculates gross profit percentage automatically. A target GP% is shown for reference.
Allergens flow automatically from ingredients → recipes → dishes. No manual allergen entry needed at dish level.
Menus organise dishes for service. Dishes can be manually ordered using the ▲▼ arrows.
Dishes automatically group by category — Starters, Mains, Sides, Desserts, Children's Menu etc. Use the arrow buttons to fine-tune the order within each course.
The allergen sheet generates a Natasha's Law compliant allergen matrix automatically from your ingredient data.
Click any grey dot to manually add an allergen. Click an orange ringed dot to remove a manually added allergen. Auto-detected allergens cannot be removed.
Generate ingredient order lists from your menus based on expected covers.