MealPrep.exe
The all-in-one operations engine for independent meal prep businesses. From client orders to delivery routes — one app, zero spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets don't scale kitchens.
Most independent meal prep chefs run their business on a fragile stack: Google Sheets for orders, WhatsApp for client chats, MapQuest for delivery routes, and a notebook for batch counts. It works for 5 clients. It collapses at 20.
Manual batch counting takes hours every week. Allergens get missed because they're buried in a spreadsheet cell. Orders get lost in WhatsApp threads. Delivery routes are planned by gut feel. The cost isn't just time — it's liability, missed revenue, and burnout.
One app. The whole operation.
MealPrep.exe replaces the entire tool stack with a single web app that runs locally on the chef's laptop. No cloud. No monthly subscription. No dependency on anyone else's servers.
The system handles the full lifecycle of a meal prep order: clients browse the weekly menu, place orders with a simple PIN login, and the chef sees everything flow through a pipeline — from pending to confirmed, in prep, and out for delivery. Behind the scenes, it automatically calculates batch counts, generates shopping lists grouped by ingredient category, and optimises delivery routes with a single click.
From pending to delivered. Nothing slips through.
Every order has a clear status: pending, confirmed, in prep, or delivered. The chef sees a live dashboard of everything that needs attention — no more hunting through WhatsApp to find out who ordered what. Clients can check their order history at any time with colour-coded status badges, so nobody has to message the chef asking "is my food coming?"
Build meals with precision. Know your margins.
Every meal is built from real ingredients drawn from a database of 818 USDA foods with full nutritional data. As the chef adds ingredients and gram weights, the system calculates the per-meal cost, profit margin, and full macro breakdown — calories, protein, carbs, and fat — in real time. Allergens are automatically inherited from each ingredient and surfaced wherever the meal appears.
Plan once. Publish when ready.
The chef builds the weekly menu in advance, adding meals as they go. Nothing is visible to clients until the chef hits publish. This means you can plan, tweak, and cost out a full week before anyone sees it. Unpublish just as easily if plans change — client orders are preserved but new ones won't come in.
Stop counting. The system does it.
Once orders are confirmed, the batch count page tells the chef exactly how many portions of each meal to prepare. No manual tallying. No "I think that's 12 of the teriyaki." The system aggregates every confirmed order for the week and outputs a clean production plan. Food waste drops because you cook exactly what was ordered.
One list. Every ingredient. Grouped and ready.
The shopping list aggregates every ingredient across every meal in the week, grouped by category — Meat, Vegetables, Dairy, Grains, and so on. Each line is checkable as you shop. The list is shareable and printable, so the chef can send it to a supplier or tick it off on a clipboard while walking the aisles. Meal labels for each container are generated alongside, ready to print.
Optimal routes. One click. Google Maps.
Enter client addresses and the system calculates the most efficient delivery order — not based on guesswork, but on a proven route optimisation algorithm. It outputs the stop order, total distance, estimated time, and a shareable Google Maps link that opens on the driver's phone. What used to take 30 minutes of staring at a map now takes 10 seconds.
Simple. Safe. No passwords required.
Clients log in with a 4-digit PIN — no passwords to forget, no email verification needed. Each client profile stores their allergens and dietary requirements. When they browse the menu, any meal containing their allergens gets flagged with a clear red warning. They can't miss it. Ordering is three steps: browse, add portions, submit.
818 USDA ingredients. And whatever you add.
The system ships with 818 real USDA ingredients — complete with calories, protein, carbs, fat, and fibre per 100g. Need something exotic? The USDA lookup lets you search for anything (gochujang, harissa, tahini) and auto-fills the nutrition. You can also add custom ingredients if you use something that isn't in the database. Every ingredient carries its allergens, which propagate through to every meal that uses it.
What the chef gets back.
MealPrep.exe doesn't just save time — it eliminates entire categories of error from the daily operation of a meal prep business.
Before MealPrep.exe
- ✕3+ separate tools to run the business daily
- ✕Hours of manual batch counting every week
- ✕Allergens tracked in spreadsheet cells (easy to miss)
- ✕Orders lost in WhatsApp threads
- ✕Delivery routes planned by gut feel
After MealPrep.exe
- ✓One app for the entire operation
- ✓Batch counts calculated instantly
- ✓Allergens flagged automatically at every step
- ✓Every order tracked with clear status
- ✓Optimised routes in seconds, not minutes
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