Menus & recipes
Costing and margin
Build, cost and version recipes in one place, and see what a dish earns before it reaches the menu.
Kitchen operating system
Kitchen guidance your whole team can follow.
Recipes, tasks, rosters and training in one system. Built once by you, and on the phone in your chef’s pocket by service.
- Multi-site
- Restaurant groups & hotel F&B
- One system
- Menus, tasks, rosters, training
- Reaches staff where they already are
The owner’s dashboard — today’s prep, across every site.
Built for
- Multi-site restaurant groups
- Hotel & lodge F&B
- Franchise chains
- Central production kitchens
Why we built it
Kitchens don’t fail on recipes. They fail on handover.
The team changes constantly
Training doesn't stick when every month brings new faces and each new hire starts from zero. Keep what the kitchen knows in the business, not in the person who just left.
Not everyone reads the manual
A thick folder works for fluent readers. For staff who speak English as a second language, guidance has to be short, plain and visual before it gets followed at all.
Phones are full, and data costs
Nearly everyone carries a phone and uses WhatsApp every day. Not everyone has space to spare. Savour runs in the browser — nothing to install, and it hardly uses data.
What’s inside
One system to run the kitchen, front to back.
You build it once. Your team gets it on the device already in their pocket.
Tasks
Tasks that reach the right phone
Assign a job and it opens straight on the phone it is meant for, with a WhatsApp message so it gets seen.
Rosters
Rosters and shifts
Build a week quickly and fairly, publish it once, and let every swap show up on staff phones straight away.
Training
Training people can follow
Short, visual lessons in plain English that a new hire can finish on shift, and a manager can track to the end.
On the pass
Recipes during service
Every step one tap away, with photos. No binder, no flip-file, no guessing at the batch size.
Across the group
Every site, one view
What is done, what is missed and what is late — for one kitchen or for every venue you run.
In use
What it actually looks like.
Three real screens from a running kitchen. No mock-ups.
Menus & recipes
Worst margin, first
The dishes losing you money sit at the top of the list, not buried in it.
Tasks
Who has what
Section, due time and owner on every card. Anything late flags itself.
Rosters
A week, per section
Drop people into shifts, publish, and it reaches their phones.
How it works
From your desk to the pass, in four steps.
- 01
Build it once
Drop in your recipe bibles, prep lists, supplier directory and staff list. Savour reads them and sorts them for you.
- 02
Assign it
Tasks, shifts and training go out to the people who need them and land on their phones or the kitchen tablet.
- 03
The team follows along
Visual guides and a clean screen mean the daily work gets done the same way, however often the team changes.
- 04
You see everything
Food cost, labour, training and consistency at a glance — one kitchen or the whole group.
For your team
It lives on the phone they already carry.
The staff view shows the shifts, tasks and training that belong to one person, and the recipes they need, with photos. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing taking up space.
- Their shifts and the week ahead
- The tasks they have been given
- Recipes, step by step, with photos
Pricing
Priced per site, so it scales with you.
Every kitchen is different, but the shape of the deal shouldn’t be a mystery. Here is where it starts.
Single kitchen
One venue, one team.
From R1,999 / month
- Recipes, costing & menus
- Tasks & rosters
- Training
- Unlimited staff
Most groups start here
Multi-site group
Build centrally, roll out per site.
From R3,999 / site / month
- Everything in Single kitchen
- Central menu & training rollout
- Group-wide reporting
- WhatsApp notifications
- Stock & supplier orders
Franchise & enterprise
Many owners, one standard.
Custom annual agreement
- Everything in Multi-site
- Franchise brand controls
- Onboarding & migration
- Named account support
FAQ
Questions we get asked.
What is Savour KitchenOS?
One system for the things a kitchen runs on: recipes and costing, prep, stocktakes, rosters, training and stock. Owners and managers work on it in a browser. Staff reach it on their own phones and through WhatsApp — there is no app to install and it uses very little data.
Does it work across more than one site?
Yes. Build menus, training and rosters once, centrally. Roll them out per site, across locations or franchisees, and see the whole group in one view.
How does it help with staff turnover?
Guidance is visual and in plain English, so a new person can follow a recipe correctly on their first shift instead of shadowing someone for two weeks. And what the kitchen knows stays in the business when they leave.
What does setting up look like?
Drag and drop your recipe bibles, prep lists, supplier directory and staff list. Then a real person on our team helps you set up and walks your managers through it.
Get started
Book a demo for your kitchens.
Tell us about your operation and we will set up a walkthrough built around your sites. A person replies within one working day.