The menu lives in a spreadsheet
Rebuilt by hand every week, with the balance checked by eye.
For nursery, kindergarten and school kitchens
Nutrition counted. Orders written. Costs in view.
Lunchkin checks every day's menu on 9 nutrients, writes each supplier's order, keeps the pantry up to date and shows the food cost per child – and puts today's recipes on your cook's phone.
Happy plates. Calm kitchen.
- Built with a real nursery kitchen
- Each person in their own language
- Works offline
- Set up for you
Sound familiar?
A school kitchen usually runs on a spreadsheet, a chat and one person's memory.
Orders go out by chat
One message per shop, typed from the menu – it's easy to miss something.
One person knows it all
How much to buy, what's in the freezer, what the cook makes today.
Lunchkin does the counting, the lists and the sums – so your kitchen runs on a system, not on one person's memory.
What it does for you
Six jobs off your plate
Lunchkin is more than a meal plan. Here is what it takes care of – for the owner, for the person who orders, and for the cook.
Real screens from the Lunchkin app, with a demo kitchen's sample data.
Nutrition
Every day's nutrition, counted for you.
Lunchkin checks every day of the menu on 9 nutrients – energy, protein, fat, carbs, fibre, iron, calcium, vitamins A and C – against daily intake targets for the child's age group (1–3, 4–6 or 7–9 years). Each one shows green, amber or red with a plain message, and one tap fixes a gap.
- No nutrition tables or calculator by hand
- See a gap before the week starts, not after
- A clear answer when parents ask how balanced the food is
Orders
Orders that write themselves.
The menu turns into each supplier's order: what the week needs, minus what's already on the shelf, rounded up to real pack sizes. Fresh food every week, dry goods once a month, and each shop gets only its own items.
- No more typing lists from the menu
- Buy what the menu needs, not a guess
- The order matches the menu, line by line
How your orders go out
Your orders, the way your suppliers take them
Every kitchen orders differently, so we fit this to yours at setup.
Today, on every plan
WhatsApp
Each supplier's order is ready in one tap and opens in WhatsApp with the text written. You check it and press send – the app never sends anything by itself.
On request, set up for your kitchen
- Telegram
For suppliers who take orders in Telegram.
- Email
For suppliers who want the order by email.
- Your supplier's online ordering
For suppliers with their own ordering website or app.
Telegram, email and online ordering are set up when we set up your kitchen, and quoted for your kitchen – tell us how your suppliers work.
Budget
See what food costs – per child, per day, per month.
Food cost per week and per month, cost per child per day and per month, and the month's forecast against the budget you set. Prices you haven't confirmed are marked "~", so you always know which numbers are still estimates.
- Know your cost per child, not just the total bill
- See an expensive week before you order it
- Clear numbers when you plan the budget
Sample figures from a demo kitchen. Food costs in the app use one currency today. A per-school currency is on our list, so tell us yours.
Pantry
A pantry that keeps itself up to date.
Planned meals come off the shelf and deliveries go on, so the stock on screen follows the kitchen. Lunchkin shows what runs out this week, a quick recount fixes any difference, and it can plan meals around what you already have. Batch-cooked portions in the freezer are tracked too.
- Know what runs out before the cook does
- Cook from what's already on the shelf
- Freezer portions with a warning after three months
Planning
A month of menus in a tap – with no repeats.
"Plan the month" fills the open weeks with balanced menus, with no soup or main dish repeated across the cycle. Swap any dish, copy a week, or use a past menu again. Your own dishes sit next to a starter library of more than 140.
- No more rebuilding the menu by hand every week
- Variety the children notice, without tracking it yourself
- One headcount a week – children and adults – and every recipe follows it
The cook
Your cook knows what to make – and how much.
Cooks open today's menu on their phone, in their language. Each recipe is scaled to today's headcount, plus any portions for the freezer: ingredients, then one step per screen, with a timer. It works offline; cooks can't change prices or suppliers.
- No maths at the stove
- The same dish, the same way, whoever is cooking
- The kitchen keeps going when someone is away
Demo video
See Lunchkin at work
Leave your details and we'll email you the demo video. Questions? Reply to that email and we'll answer.
Languages
Each person reads their own language.
Owner and cook alike: every screen, every dish and every recipe shows in the language each person picks. The owner can plan in one language while the cook reads the same menu in their own.
The chat on this website answers in English, Russian and Indonesian.
Wed Wednesday · Lunch
Pasta with minced beef
1. Boil the pasta in plenty of salted water until tender, then drain it.
Ср Среда · Обед
Макароны по-флотски
1. Макароны отварить в подсоленной воде до мягкости и откинуть на дуршлаг.
Rab Rabu · Makan siang
Pasta daging cincang
1. Rebus pasta dalam air bergaram sampai empuk, lalu tiriskan.
The same lunch, as each person sees it
How it works
Plan → Order → Cook
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Step 1: Plan the month in a tap
Lunchkin fills your weeks with balanced, varied menus. Swap any dish you like.
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Step 2: Orders ready to send
Each supplier gets its own list – what the menu needs, minus what's on the shelf – ready for WhatsApp.
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Step 3: Cook with today's numbers
Your cook opens today's menu on the phone: amounts for today's headcount, step by step.
A week with Lunchkin
From Monday's plan to Friday's last plate
This is what a normal week looks like once your kitchen is set up.
- Before the week
Plan
Fill the open weeks with "Plan the month", or use a past menu again. Set the week's headcount – children and adults.
- Before the week
Check
Every day is scored on 9 nutrients – green, amber or red, with a plain message. "Balance day" fixes a gap in one tap.
- Before the week
Order
Each supplier gets its own order: fresh food every week, dry goods once a month. One tap opens it in WhatsApp, ready to check and send.
- When deliveries come
Receive
Deliveries go into the pantry. If the shelf and the screen disagree, a quick recount puts it right.
- Every day
Cook
Each day the cook opens today's menu: amounts for today's headcount, one big step at a time, with a timer.
- Any time
Look back
See what food cost per child, keep the week as a past menu, and check which weeks are planned or cooked.
Also in the app
- Works offline
Changes are saved on the device and sync when you're back online. Installs on any phone.
- A login for everyone
Admins and cooks each have their own. Cooks can't change prices or suppliers.
- No children's data
Children are a headcount only. No personal data of children or parents is stored.
- Diets and allergens
Halal / no pork, vegetarian, and common allergens tagged on every dish.
See a real week
One week, planned in Lunchkin
Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner for 28 children and 5 adults – every dish from the app's own library, and none of them twice in the week.
- Mon
- Breakfast
- Oatmeal with banana
- Lunch
- SoupBroccoli & cheese cream soup
- MainChicken pilaf
- Snack
- Banana & sweet potato in milk
- Dinner
- Cheesy vegetable pasta (veg)
- Tue
- Breakfast
- Thin pancakes with sour cream
- Lunch
- SoupVegetable soup with zucchini
- MainFish cakes
- Snack
- Yogurt, chia & banana pudding
- Dinner
- Vegetable stew with chicken
- Wed
- Breakfast
- Semolina porridge
- Lunch
- SoupVegetable barley soup (veg)
- MainPasta with minced beef
- Snack
- Yogurt with berries & oats
- Dinner
- Baked broccoli and cheese omelette
- Thu
- Breakfast
- Millet porridge with pumpkin
- Lunch
- SoupGreen pea soup
- MainTofu
- Snack
- Baked apple with cottage cheese
- Dinner
- Baked fish with sweet potato & greens
- Fri
- Breakfast
- Rice porridge
- Lunch
- SoupLentil & vegetable soup (veg)
- MainBaked chicken fillet with zucchini
- Snack
- Oat & date power balls
- Dinner
- Macaroni with cheese
Who it's for
For kitchens that cook for children every day
Owners and directors
Every day's nutrition checked, food cost per child in view, and a kitchen that doesn't depend on one person.
Admins and kitchen managers
Orders written from the menu, a pantry that keeps itself up to date, and less typing.
Cooks
What to cook today and how much – on the phone, in their own language.
Best fit
Lunchkin suits your kitchen if most of these are true:
Your kitchen
- You cook on sitein your own kitchen
- You buy from a few shopsa few shops or suppliers, ordered by message
- Your cooks use a phone or tabletthe internet sometimes drops
Your children and meals
- Children aged 1–9
- Four meals, Monday to Fridaybreakfast, lunch, snack and dinner
- Home-style cooking suits your menuporridges and soups – or you bring your own dishes
Your team
- Owner and cook each read their own language
- You want food cost per childand the balance of every day
Older children, up to 15? We can tailor the meal planning to your school – age groups, portions and targets – as an add-on. Ask us.
Not the right fit yet
How your food arrives
- Your food comes from a caterer
- A canteen company runs your kitchenwith its own system
- Lunch only, or another meal pattern
What you need from software
- One screen across several locationseach location is separate today
- Allergy profiles per childallergens are tagged per dish
- Attendance, billing or parent messaging
How you start
- Sign up and start on your ownevery school is set up by us
Plans
Simple pricing. Set up by us.
Lunchkin
The full app, set up for your kitchen
$60
per kitchen per month
or $600 per year (2 months free)
$60 per kitchen per month, or $600 per year (2 months free)
- Planning
- Recipes
- Orders
- Pantry
- Freezer
- Budget
- Nutrition check
- Cook mode
- Printing
- A language per person
- Offline
$250 one-time setup
Email us
We set it up: menu, suppliers, prices, logins, training, first-week check
Lunchkin in your colours
Lunchkin with your school's logo and colours
Custom quote
Quoted for each school.
- Everything in Lunchkin, plus your logo and colours in the app and on printouts
Setup – talk to us
Talk to us
Your own app
Your own app – your name, your icon, your web address
Custom quote
Quoted for each school.
- Everything in Lunchkin, as your own app with its own name, icon and web address, on a separate deployment
Setup – talk to us
Talk to us
- Prices are in USD. Ask us how to pay.
- Every school is set up by us. There is no self-serve sign-up.
- Support by email, and updates, on every plan.
What the $250 setup includes
- Your menu loaded – your own dishes plus the starter library
- Your suppliers and their prices
- Your orders set up the way your suppliers take them – WhatsApp included; Telegram, email or online ordering quoted for your kitchen
- A login for each person – admins and cooks
- The parts your kitchen doesn't use, switched off
- Training for your team
- A check after your first week
What support includes, on every plan
- Help by email
- Answers to your questions
- Bug fixes
- Updates that arrive by themselves and keep your data
- Every update tested automatically before it reaches your kitchen
New features, a new menu library or a new location are agreed and priced with you first.
Add-ons
Price of any add-on: ask usMenus & cuisines
- Starter library – more than 140 home-style dishes with recipesIncluded
- Cuisine pack – InternationalPlanned – ask us
- Cuisine pack – Everyday basicsPlanned – ask us
- Your own cuisine – we build a dish library in the cuisine your children eatOn request
Your school
- Help with your school's own branding(if you don't have one yet)On request
- Older age groups (10–15) – set up for your schoolAsk us
Growing
- Extra kitchens or locationsAsk us
FAQ
Questions we often hear
Didn't find your question?
Ask the chat on this page, or email us at hello@lunchkin.app.
How much does Lunchkin cost?
$60 per kitchen per month, or $600 per year (2 months free), plus a one-time $250 setup. Lunchkin in your colours and Your own app are quoted for each school – talk to us.
What does the $250 setup include?
We set everything up for you: we load your menu (your own dishes plus the starter library), add your suppliers and prices, create a login for each person, switch off the parts your kitchen doesn't use, train your team, and check in after your first week.
How do orders reach our suppliers?
Today each supplier's order is ready in one tap and opens in WhatsApp with the text written – you check it and press send; the app never sends anything by itself. If your suppliers take orders by Telegram, email or their own online ordering, we can set that up when we set up your kitchen. It's quoted for your kitchen, so tell us how your suppliers work.
Which currency do I pay in?
Prices are in US dollars. Ask us how to pay.
Can the app show food prices in my currency?
Food costs in the app use one currency today. A per-school currency is on our list, so tell us yours.
Which languages does it speak?
English, Russian and Indonesian – every screen, dish and recipe – and more on request. Each person picks their own, owner and cook alike. The chat on this website answers in English, Russian and Indonesian.
How long does setup take?
It depends on your menu and suppliers. We agree a start week with you, and check in after the first week – ask us.
Can I sign up online?
Not yet. Every school is set up by us, so you start with your own menu, suppliers and logins ready. Email us at hello@lunchkin.app to begin.
What devices does it work on?
Any phone, tablet or laptop with a modern browser. It installs on the home screen like an app, on Android and iPhone.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. Changes are saved on the device and sync when you are back online.
Can it carry our school's logo and colours?
Yes, on Lunchkin in your colours – your logo and colours in the app and on printouts. Your own app goes further: your own name, icon and web address. Both are quoted for each school. If you don't have a logo yet, we can help with that too.
More questions
Which nutrition standard does it check against?
Every day is checked on 9 nutrients against daily reference intakes for the child's age group – ages 1–3, 4–6 and 7–9. It is a planning aid – as accurate as the recipes and portions in it, and not reviewed by a nutritionist. Your school follows a particular national standard? Tell us at setup and we'll say honestly whether we support it yet.
Our school serves lunch only. Does it fit?
Today Lunchkin plans four meals a day – breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner – Monday to Friday. Lunch-only kitchens and other meal patterns are not a good fit yet. Tell us how your kitchen works and we'll be honest about it.
Which ages is it for?
It is best for kitchens feeding children aged 1–9. For older children, up to 15, we set up age groups, portions and targets for your school as an add-on – ask us.
Can we use our own dishes?
Yes. We load your own dishes at setup, next to a starter library of more than 140 home-style dishes – soups, porridges, mains, sides, snacks and vegetarian dishes.
Do you cover other cuisines?
Cuisine packs are planned. We can also build a dish library in the cuisine your children eat, as an add-on – ask us.
How does support work?
Email us at hello@lunchkin.app. Questions, bug fixes and updates are covered on every plan; updates arrive by themselves, keep your data and are tested automatically before they reach your kitchen. New features, a new menu library or a new location are agreed and priced with you first.
Ready when your kitchen is.
Tell us about your kitchen – we'll tell you honestly if Lunchkin fits.
