Know what every dish costs.

Track ingredients, suppliers and allergens in one place, with unit-aware cost per portion and gross profit on every recipe and set menu.

Ingredients, Costs & Suppliers is your food-cost engine. Each ingredient carries its purchase and recipe units, price, supplier and allergens, so recipes and set menus show a cost and a GP% you can price against. When a supplier price moves, the margin moves everywhere that ingredient is used.

The problem this solves

Costing in a spreadsheet goes stale the moment a supplier price moves. Havenue keeps ingredient costs, recipes and menu margins connected, so the number you price against is the number that is true today.

How it works

  1. Build the ingredient list: Add ingredients, or import them, with purchase and recipe units, price, supplier and allergens.
  2. Cost unit-aware: Costs convert safely across weight, volume and count. Anything ambiguous is flagged, never guessed.
  3. See recipe & menu GP%: Every recipe and set menu shows cost per portion and gross profit in your currency.
  4. Link suppliers: Tie each ingredient to a supplier, with lead time, terms and minimum order.
  5. Price with confidence: When a cost moves, the margin moves with it, before you send the menu.

What you get

  • Unit-aware costing: Accurate costs even when recipes mix grams, millilitres and counts.
  • Recipe & menu GP%: Cost per portion and gross profit on every recipe and set menu.
  • One canonical cost: A dish costs the same number in the builder, the Vault, reports and the dashboard.
  • Allergens that flow through: Ingredient allergens carry into recipes, menus and event sheets.
  • Suppliers in context: Lead time, terms and minimum order, linked to the ingredients they supply.

Who this is for

  • Head Chef
  • Cost Controller
  • Purchasing

What Havenue is

Havenue is the AI-native dietary and catering management software for hospitality: catering companies, hotels, venues, restaurants and private dining.

It automates the back-of-house behind event catering, from the enquiry to the kitchen pass to the invoice. The Dietary & Catering Engine checks every dish against every guest's requirements and finds safe replacement dishes from the operator's own recipes, for chef sign-off. Around it sit an advanced, automated event CRM with a live pipeline, a smart inventory and stock system with every allergen tagged from the ingredients themselves, recipe and menu costing with live cost per head and GP%, ordering and supplier management, invoicing, billing and client payments, generated BEOs and allergen matrices, reporting, and the full platform in a mobile browser. One integrated platform, one event record.

Explore Havenue

  • Havenue · Dietary & Catering Management Software
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  • Owen's Law Guide: written allergen info on menus | Havenue
  • Hotel Banquet Management Software: What Hospitality Teams Need | Havenue
  • Banquet Management Software: From Event Brief to Kitchen Pass | Havenue
  • Supplier Invoice Scanning for Catering: What It Checks and What It Saves | Havenue
  • What a Banqueting Event Order Is, and What Belongs on One | Havenue
  • Food Cost Control for Catering: Cost per Head, GP% and Where the Margin Leaks | Havenue
  • Catering Inventory and Stock Management: Par Levels, Receiving and Real Cost | Havenue
  • Private Dining Management Software: What the Team Actually Needs | Havenue
  • Dietary and Allergen Management for Catering: A UK Guide | Havenue
  • Labour Costs in UK Hospitality 2026: The Numbers, and How to Control Them | Havenue
  • Allergen Management for Hospitality: A Practical Operations Guide | Havenue
  • Catering Order Management Software | BEOs, Menus, Dietaries, Inventory & Costs
  • Havenue Product Updates
  • Havenue 1.4: buying, suppliers, billing and payments | Havenue
  • Havenue 1.3: the platform in your pocket | Havenue
  • Havenue 1.2: the event team command center | Havenue
  • Havenue 1.1: Advanced Event CRM & stock that runs itself | Havenue
  • Havenue 1.0, Team accounts and accountability
  • Havenue 0.90: AI import and Dietary & Catering Engine
  • Havenue Mobile: catering operations from your phone | Havenue
  • Supplier Management Software for Catering Kitchens | Havenue
  • Purchase Order & Receiving Software for Kitchens | Havenue
  • Catering Invoicing & Payments Software | Havenue
  • Supplier Invoice Scanning for Kitchens (AI OCR) | Havenue
  • Team Inbox for Hospitality & Event Teams | Havenue
  • Operations Calendar for Catering & Event Teams | Havenue
  • Dietary & Catering Engine for Every Guest | Havenue
  • BEO & Allergen Matrix Software for Events | Havenue
  • Preparations: Recipes Inside Recipes for Kitchens | Havenue
  • AI Import: build your smart inventory database | Havenue
  • Catering Event Order Planner: brief to kitchen-ready | Havenue
  • Catering Event Pipeline & Sales CRM for Hospitality | Havenue
  • Event Financial Vault for Hospitality Teams | Havenue
  • Hospitality Inventory & Stock Management Software | Havenue
  • Recipe Creation, Live cost and live GP on one screen
  • Set Menu Creation, See the profit before you sell the menu
  • Menu Library, One library, every approved dish
  • Reporting & Dietary Compliance, Fifteen reports, one source of truth
  • Accounts, Permissions & Activity, Right people on the right pages
  • Havenue plans & full feature breakdown | Pricing
  • Compare Havenue with catering & event software | Havenue
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  • Havenue vs Total Party Planner | Catering operations software
  • Havenue vs Caterease | Dietary & catering management software
  • Havenue vs Better Cater | Catering event management software
  • Havenue vs CaterSOFT | UK catering & event software
  • Havenue vs Kafoodle | Allergen & catering management software
  • Havenue vs Nutritics | Recipe, allergen & catering software
  • Havenue vs Dynamify | Catering software for events & margin
  • Havenue vs Spoonfed | Catering & banqueting software
  • Havenue Referral Program | Earn for every venue you introduce

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