Build a menu and recipe management app

Kliv isn’t a restaurant suite or a recipe database you configure — it’s an AI that builds software for you.

You describe the app you need in your own words, and Kliv builds it: the recipes, costs, allergens, menus, order forms, production sheets, and admin screens. What you get is a real application that’s yours. You can use it, change it later by asking, and run it on your own domain. If you sell meals online, checkout can run through your own Stripe account. It isn’t a template with your name on it.

On this page, that app is a menu and recipe management system for a kitchen that publishes menus and cooks to order. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one.

A meal-prep kitchen often runs on two separate files: a recipe binder and an order spreadsheet. That means someone scales recipes by hand, checks allergen warnings again, and prices the menu without seeing current ingredient costs.

Restaurant systems usually assume tables and service. Recipe apps usually assume a home cook. A kitchen that publishes a weekly menu and cooks to order needs something else.

Kliv builds that workflow as one app. Recipes hold quantities, costs, and allergens. The weekly menu pulls from those recipes. Customer orders create the production sheet.

The menu is also a price sheet. Portion costs roll up from ingredients, so pricing the week happens on screen. If chicken or flank steak gets more expensive, next week’s margin shows it before the menu goes out.

Recipes keep their history. January’s braise and June’s lighter version can both stay on record. Past weeks keep pointing at the version they shipped, while future costing uses the current version.

Published menus become pages. Every published menu can be prerendered for search crawlers, so the menu you already wrote can still bring people back later.

The menu changes weekly; the customers shouldn’t. Keeping them is what direct-to-consumer means in practice, and what selling direct demands goes beyond the kitchen.