# FoodNotify: F&B Management & Automated Kitchen Operations Platform

> Automated kitchen management, recipe costing, and multi-supplier procurement platform for restaurants and catering networks.

Source: https://authect.com/work/foodnotify

An all-in-one SaaS platform automating recipe cost calculations, inventory depletion, and multi-supplier procurement for restaurants and caterers.

Client: FoodNotify

What we did: SaaS Architecture & System Design, Multi-Supplier Procurement Engine, POS & ERP API Integrations, Recipe Costing & Inventory Automation, UI/UX Dashboard & Mobile Scanner Design, Real-Time Data Normalization & Analytics

Tech stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST & GraphQL APIs, AWS Cloud Infrastructure

## Prologue

Hospitality businesses, restaurant chains, and catering operators continuously struggle with rising food costs, manual inventory counts, and unpredictable supplier price fluctuations. Tracking margin breakdown across hundreds of recipes and ingredients typically requires complex spreadsheets and tedious manual data entry.

FoodNotify was created to digitize and automate back-of-house operations for gastronomy businesses across Europe. The platform connects recipes, live inventory stock, and automated supplier ordering into a unified operational hub.

By integrating directly with wholesale suppliers and POS point-of-sale systems, FoodNotify calculates exact recipe costs down to the cent, alerts kitchen managers to margin drift, and automates food waste reduction—ensuring culinary teams maintain high quality while protecting net profitability.

## The challenge

Managing food costs and kitchen operations at scale involves significant administrative and financial complexity:

## Dynamic Ingredient Pricing & Hidden Margin Drift
Wholesale ingredient prices fluctuate constantly. Without automated syncs between purchase invoices and menu recipes, kitchens unknowingly sell dishes at eroded or negative profit margins.

## Fragmented Procurement & Manual Ordering
Kitchen managers spend hours sending separate orders to multiple fruit, meat, dry goods, and beverage suppliers via phone, email, or disjointed portals, leading to ordering errors and inventory bottlenecks.

## Compliance & Allergen Management Demands
European food safety regulations require precise tracking of allergens, nutritional values, and origin tracing for every dish—a burden that consumes valuable time when handled manually.

## Our solution

A comprehensive, cloud-based platform bridging culinary creativity with financial back-of-house control.

## Automated Recipe Costing & Margin Engine
FoodNotify automatically updates recipe costs whenever a wholesale supplier invoice changes, instantly highlighting dish profitability and suggesting price adjustments.

## Unified Multi-Supplier Procurement Hub
Kitchens can aggregate and place all ingredient orders with their preferred suppliers from a single intuitive dashboard, standardizing order lists and delivery schedules.

## POS Integration & Live Inventory Depletion
By connecting directly to POS systems, the platform depletes ingredient stock in real time as meals are sold, predicting reorder points and detecting food waste anomalies automatically.

## Centralized Allergen & Nutrition Tracking
Generates compliant allergen charts, ingredient labels, and nutritional profiles for every menu item automatically, ensuring total regulatory compliance across all locations.

## Results

FoodNotify has become a benchmark operational SaaS solution for modern gastronomy and hospitality groups.

## Measurable Cost Reduction
Helps restaurant networks and hotel kitchens lower food costs and COGS by up to 15% through precise portion control and margin monitoring.

## Hours Saved in Procurement
Eliminated manual ordering chaos, saving kitchen managers and head chefs up to 10 hours per week in back-office administration.

## Seamless Multi-Unit Scaling
Enables enterprise restaurant chains to standardize recipes, allergen profiles, and purchasing terms across dozens of regional locations effortlessly.

## About Authect

- Authect is a founder-led software development studio: clients talk to the founders who build their project, never a salesperson.
- Every project is led by a senior engineer. Delivery is AI-accelerated, and an engineer reviews every line before it ships.
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- The team works in Dubai (Dubai Marina, Business Bay, Dubai Silicon Oasis) and in Spain (Madrid and Marbella), and works with partners in Lithuania.
- Clients across Europe, the Middle East and beyond; areas served include Dubai, Madrid, Marbella, Málaga, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark.
- Founders: Pranas Mickevicius (Chief Executive Officer), Oscar Arson Saiz (Chief Technology Officer).
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