A preparation is a saved recipe you drop inside other recipes. Update your house sauce once, and every dish that uses it re-costs itself and inherits its allergens automatically.
Great kitchens build on a handful of bases: a stock, a house sauce, a dressing, a spice blend. Preparations let you capture one as its own recipe and reuse it inside any dish, instead of retyping the same ingredients again and again. Cost rolls up, and allergens carry into the parent dish on their own, so the numbers and the safety stay honest.
The problem this solves
Sauces, stocks and dressings are reused across dozens of dishes, but most kitchens track them by hand. Change one supplier price and you are hunting through every recipe; miss a dairy ingredient buried in a sauce and a safe dish is suddenly not. Preparations remove the manual tracking.
How it works
Save the base as a recipe: Build your sauce or stock once, with its ingredients, batch size, waste and allergens.
Drop it into any dish: Switch the builder from ingredients to Preparations and add it like an ingredient. Preview its cost and allergens before you commit.
Set how much you use: Quantity is in the preparation's own batch units, so cost and allergens scale to the exact amount the dish uses.
Let it carry up: Inherited allergens move into the parent automatically, and clicking the preparation's name jumps you straight to its recipe.
What you get
Update once, re-cost everywhere: Change the sauce's ingredient prices once and every dish that uses it re-costs itself. No hunting through other recipes.
Allergens that carry up: If a base contains dairy, every dish that uses it is treated as containing dairy, and Havenue shows exactly where it came from.
Honest profit: Because the true built-up cost is always current, your cost per head and GP% reflect what a dish really costs to make.
Tidy by design: A preparation stays a building block. It is only served as a dish when you deliberately publish it, so your reusable bases stay out of guest menus.
Who this is for
Head Chef
Sous Chef
Kitchen Manager
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.