Kitchen management for UK hospitality

Less time on paper checks.More time to do what you do best

CaterCTRL brings food safety, kitchen management and commercial control into one platform — so chefs spend less time on admin and more time on the pass. Safer kitchens. Healthier margins. Less paper.

Restaurants · Pubs · Hotels · Caterers · Multi-site groups

The CaterCTRL app — welcome screen with digital kitchen management sign-in

The real CaterCTRL app

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The problem

Kitchens still run on paper.

Most professional kitchens are managed through a patchwork of paper, folders and spreadsheets — fragmented, out of date and impossible to see across sites.

CaterCTRL brings these workflows together in one system built for the way kitchens actually run.

  • 01Paper temperature sheets
  • 02Cleaning folders
  • 03Allergen spreadsheets
  • 04Recipe-costing spreadsheets
  • 05Supplier price lists
  • 06Menus
  • 07Stock sheets
  • 08Different systems across different sites

The system that replaces it

One system, on the record.

Real food-safety workflows inside CaterCTRL — temperature controls with cook & cool timers, signed records and exception alerts.

The CaterCTRL app — Temperature Controls with cook and cool timers for beef stew and rice

The real CaterCTRL app — Temperature Controls

What CaterCTRL answers

Four questions every operator asks. One platform that answers them.

01

Is my kitchen compliant?

Food-safety records, temperatures, cleaning schedules and daily checks live in one system — with accountability for who did what, and when.

Available today
  • · Temperature logs
  • · Cleaning & checklists
  • · Historical records
02

Is my food safe?

CaterCTRL helps you manage the information behind safer food — connecting supplier, product, recipe and allergen data so it is easier to keep consistent and review.

Available today
  • · Allergen management
  • · Allergen matrix
  • · Supplier & product data
03

Am I making money?

Live ingredient costs flow through to recipe costing, GP and menu profitability — so supplier price changes never quietly erode your margin.

Available today
  • · Live recipe costing
  • · GP analysis
  • · Menu builder
04

What needs my attention today?

Operational visibility across checks, tasks and sites today — with stock, purchasing, waste and management alerts actively on the roadmap.

Partly available — more coming
  • · Daily priorities
  • · Site visibility
  • · Stock, purchasing & waste — coming soon

Live costing

Know what a price rise does to your GP — before service, not after.

CaterCTRL connects supplier prices to product costs, recipe costs and gross profit. When an ingredient price moves, you see the commercial impact immediately — instead of discovering it weeks later in an outdated spreadsheet.

Explore cost control
  1. 1

    Supplier price changes

    A supplier updates the price of an ingredient.

  2. 2

    Product cost updates

    The product in your database reflects the new price.

  3. 3

    Recipe cost recalculates

    Every recipe using that product is re-costed.

  4. 4

    GP moves — and you see it

    Gross profit per dish updates before the menu prints.

Multi-site

Built for one kitchen. Architected for twenty.

CaterCTRL works beautifully for an independent kitchen — and it is architected for businesses operating multiple sites. Owners and operations teams get central oversight; chefs and managers get site-level access that keeps their kitchen moving.

How multi-site works
A busy professional hospitality kitchen team
The CaterCTRL dashboard venue filter — All sites, Main Kitchen and Harbour Deck

The real CaterCTRL app — one login, filtered by kitchen

A chef plating a dish with care

Our story

Built by a chef, for chefs.

CaterCTRL exists because professional kitchens still spend hours every week managing paperwork, spreadsheets and disconnected systems. It was designed from real kitchen experience — every workflow shaped by someone who has run a pass, faced an EHO visit and costed a menu by hand.

Read the story

Founding Kitchens

Help shape CaterCTRL — on early-adopter terms.

Founding Kitchen — £59/site/month with Professional-level access, founding price protected for your first 12 months, and managed onboarding included for your first site. Limited to the first 10 Founding Kitchens.

About the programme

Book a demo

See CaterCTRL in your kitchen.

A short, practical walkthrough of the platform with your kitchen in mind — food safety, costing and day-to-day control.