Where Data Meets Culinary Excellence
The AI-powered back office for culinary professionals. Master your food costs, engineer your menu, and outperform your competition — all in one intelligent platform.
Opening soon — founding-member pricing for early joiners.
Built for · hotel kitchens · ghost kitchens · small chains · private chefs · catering · QSR
Every tool a culinary operator wishes they had
One workspace for your recipes, suppliers, menus, and market view.
Type a recipe. Get AP→EP yield math, total cost, food cost %, and a suggested menu price — instantly.
Upload supplier lists (CSV/Excel). We auto-fill ingredient costs and flag price hikes >10%.
Side-by-side prices across suppliers. We show you the monthly savings of switching.
Describe your concept. Get a starter menu — dish names, descriptions, category placement.
Sync sales counts. We classify every item — Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle, Dog — with a clear action.
Per-person costing for buffets and events, with portion assumptions baked in.
Consolidated by supplier, branded PDF export. Hand it to your team and walk away.
AI competitor briefings for your city and cuisine. Where you sit on price. What's trending nearby.
"Took us a weekend to cost our entire menu. Found $1,800/mo in supplier savings the first week. This is the back-office work I always meant to do."
— Marisol P., owner-operator · two ghost kitchens, Mexico City
Pricing that scales with your culinary operation
3-day free trial on every plan, card required. Cancel anytime, no contracts.
Billed monthly
- 169 recipes costed / month
- 15 supplier profiles + price-list upload
- 45 AI menu generations / month
- Shopping / market list with PDF export
- Buffet builder + 2-currency costing
Billed monthly
- 400 recipes costed / month
- 25 supplier profiles + supplier comparison
- 140 AI menu generations / month
- Stars & Dogs menu engineering
- Menu translation + unlimited multi-currency costing
Built by someone who ran the pass, not a spreadsheet
I'm Amir Swedan — years on the line and behind the numbers in hotel culinary operations, catering operations and multi-site restaurants. Every cost sheet I ever kept lived in a notebook or a broken Excel file, and margin quietly disappeared between supplier invoices and menu prices.
le mezon is the back-office I wish I'd had: real costing, real supplier prices, and a clear read on which dishes actually pay the rent.
Amir Swedan · Founder, le mezon
Questions, asked and answered
- Do I need a POS integration?
- No. Upload sales counts via CSV from any POS to run Stars & Dogs. Toast / Square / Lightspeed integrations are on the roadmap.
- Can the market intelligence really see my local competitors?
- Yes. The Pro tier uses live web search plus AI synthesis to brief you on competitors by city + cuisine, with pricing benchmarks and 2–3 actionable insights per report.
- What units and currencies are supported?
- Both metric and imperial (g, kg, oz, lb, ml, L, fl oz, gal, tsp, tbsp, cup). Multi-currency with per-supplier overrides.
- How do sub-recipes work?
- Flag any recipe as a prep (e.g. 'house BBQ sauce') and use it as an ingredient in others. Cost rolls up automatically.
- Is my data private?
- Yes. Each restaurant account is isolated — your recipes, prices, and sales never touch another tenant's data. Audit log included on Growth and above.
Your menu has hidden margin. Find it.
le mezon is opening soon. Join the waitlist for founding-member pricing and priority onboarding.