See PlatePrep in Motion
Two videos. Two minutes. Everything you need to see.
Pick the one that fits how you learn: the kitchen — chef-driven, hands-on, real service — or the pitch — why every hour on paperwork is an hour off the line.
Chef AI, Recipe IP, and PlateCost — one platform that structures your recipes, tracks your cost per plate, orders your product, and trains your team. Work ten hours less a week.
Founder's 50: $299/mo locked for life. First 50 operators nationwide.
Pick the one that fits how you learn: the kitchen — chef-driven, hands-on, real service — or the pitch — why every hour on paperwork is an hour off the line.
Ordering, food cost, and menu pricing eat 10-15 hours a week for every operator. Nobody has time. Everyone loses margin.
The average chef-owner spends 12 hours a week on spreadsheets, order forms, and invoice reconciliation.
Menu prices drift out of sync with ingredient costs. The typical independent restaurant leaves eighteen thousand on the table annually.
Sixty-five-plus hour weeks are standard. PlatePrep exists so that becomes fifty-five. Ten hours back. Every week.
Three steps to get your kitchen running on PlatePrep. Then it's yours forever.
Photograph, email, or drop your current menu. Menu Analyzer extracts every dish, ingredient, portion, and price and loads it into Recipe IP. Zero manual data entry.
Day 1 Zero data entryEvery recipe becomes a structured record with ingredients, quantities, portions, and photos. Chef AI generates up to ten new recipes a month for you — seasonal specials, menu extensions, buyer-driven asks. Your IP, exportable and transferable.
50 recipes stored 10 AI recipes / monthPlatePrep auto-generates prep lists, order guides, and basic inventory sheets — all built from your Vault. No more clipboards. No more \"who wrote this down.\"
Auto-generated Prep + order + inventoryOnce setup is done, PlatePrep is the app your team lives in during service.
Generate up to ten new recipes a month. Seasonal specials, menu extensions, or a last-minute request — you describe it, Chef AI writes the recipe with costed ingredients and portions.
The chef's knowledge, structured. Every recipe versioned, portioned, and transferable. Your IP lives inside PlatePrep and is exportable at any time.
Live cost per plate on every recipe. Invoice-driven — when your supplier prices move, PlateCost moves with them. Know your margin in real time.
Team messaging between line, prep, and management. Shift notes, prep-time handoffs, and management updates in one thread — the group chat that actually works for kitchens.
Up to five new training videos per week. Onboard line cooks faster, standardize prep techniques, and protect your IP when staff turns over.
Daily prep assignments with completion tracking. Unfinished tasks roll to tomorrow automatically. Every shift starts organized.
Order guides tied to your vendors. One click sends the order directly to Sysco, US Foods, Driscoll, or your local supplier. No emails, no faxes, no phone calls.
If you're one of the first fifty operators to join, your rate never changes. Not next year. Not ever.
15-minute Zoom with Buddy. No sales team. Yes or no on the call.
PlatePrep wasn't built by tech founders trying to sell to restaurants. It was built by a restaurant family who needed the tool themselves.
Thirty years in hospitality. Owner-operator of The Chateau on the Lake in Bolton Landing, NY. Grew up in the kitchen. Left, built one of the first e-commerce fashion companies (eFashionSolutions), sold it, came right back to the business. Three locations later, he got back into tech — this time for us.
Vanderbilt economics. Daughter of Buddy, granddaughter of two lifelong restaurant operators. Runs product strategy and the operator community. The bridge between the kitchen team and the technology team.
No. PlatePrep works alongside whatever POS you already run. We read your data — you don't have to migrate anything.
You keep every recipe you have. When you're ready to grow Recipe IP or add more Chef AI capacity, we'll show you the upgrade path. Most operators live comfortably inside those limits for the first year — focused menus perform better anyway.
Order Guide + Vendor Send works with any supplier you already order from. We add your vendors, we don't replace them. Sysco, US Foods, Driscoll, Baldor, your local butcher — all supported.
Book the demo now to hold a seat. Once we hit 50 signed operators, the rate goes up for everyone new — but Founder's 50 members keep $299/mo for life.
Those tools are built for chains, corporate finance teams, and multi-unit CFOs. PlatePrep is built for the chef-owner who works service every night. Different DNA.
Book a 15-minute Zoom with Buddy. He walks you through the actual product using real Chateau data. If it's a fit, we sign the Founder's 50 agreement on the call. If it's not, we shake hands and move on.
Restaurants with documented recipes, systematized prep, and organized order guides sell faster and for more. If you're planning to list — or you're a restaurant broker — talk to us before you go to market.
PlatePrep for Brokers & SellersBook a demo with Buddy. He'll show you what your kitchen looks like inside PlatePrep. If it makes sense, you're in for $299/month locked for life. If it doesn't, we'll still buy the coffee.
Email Buddy — book the ZoomOr call / text: 201-206-8442