Pre-ordering for company canteens

Know who's coming to lunch and stop cooking 30% too much

Employees choose their meals for the coming week in the browser. Your kitchen sees how many portions of each dish to cook before the week starts.

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Loved by employees and managers

Estimated savings per 100 employees per year

Ingredient cost saved
€64,132
Food not cooked
6.4 t
CO2e saved
19.2 t CO2e
The Problem

A Week Running Your Canteen Without Demand Data

Without orders, the kitchen plans with last week's numbers, and what nobody eats goes in the bin.

Zero Planning Data
Week Before

Zero Planning Data

It's Monday. Your employees have no idea what'll be on the menu Friday. Your kitchen has no idea how many people are coming. Nobody's ordering ahead because there's no system to order ahead. Next week's menu? A mystery to everyone, including you.

Planning horizon: none. Order data: none.

Ordering Ingredients
Days Before

Ordering Ingredients

Time to order ingredients for the week. Your chef looks at last week's numbers: "200 chicken breasts? Maybe 180? If the weather is nice, people eat out." The order goes in as an estimate.

Purchasing follows an estimate, and surplus ingredients expire.

The Morning Estimate
06:00 AM

The Morning Estimate

Your chefs arrive with one question: "How many people today?" Nobody knows. Is it a home-office day? Is it raining? The head chef checks last Tuesday's numbers and the forecast: "Probably 180. Make it 200 to be safe."

Portions are set by estimate, with a safety margin on top.

Lunch Service
12:15 PM

Lunch Service

The line forms. Marc asks for something vegetarian; there is nothing left. By 12:30 the chicken is gone, while 60 portions of pasta were made for the 12 people who wanted it. Sarah's gluten-free meal was never planned.

Popular dishes run out, others are left over, and dietary needs are missed.

Cleanup
2:30 PM

Cleanup

Cleanup time. The meals nobody took go into the bin untouched: three hours of prep and good ingredients. Tomorrow the kitchen plans the same way, because it has nothing better to plan with.

Without orders, kitchens cook about 30% more than gets eaten, and it goes in the bin.

The Real Problem

Your kitchen staff isn't the problem. They're excellent at cooking.

The problem is that they plan a whole canteen with no demand data: no idea who's coming, what they want or which dietary needs to cover. Only last week's numbers and the weather forecast.

That's not a cooking problem. That's a data problem.

(And you can't fix a data problem by cooking harder.)

Stop Guessing. Start Counting.

Join the pilot program today and fix your food waste problem.

The Solution

The Same Day, But With Actual Data

People order → the kitchen sees the numbers → the kitchen cooks those numbers → people eat what they ordered → less goes in the bin.

Week Before

Employees Order in Advance

Your staff open Bite Club in any browser, with no app to install, and pick their meals for the week, any time until orders close on the Saturday before.

Your kitchen knows how many people are coming, per day and per meal.

Days Before

Chef Orders Ingredients for the Week

Your chef opens the weekly overview. Sees the entire week laid out: "Monday: 47 Schnitzel, 32 Pasta. Tuesday: 38 Curry, 41 Salad. Wednesday: 52 Pasta, 29 Fish..." Opens procurement system. Orders all ingredients for the entire week in one go. One order. Zero guessing.

Ingredients are bought once a week, for the orders.

06:00 AM

Morning Dashboard Shows Today's Numbers

Chef arrives Monday morning. Opens today's prep view. Sees just Monday's lineup: "47 Schnitzel, 32 Pasta, 28 Salad. 3 vegetarian, 2 halal, 1 gluten-free." Not the whole week. Just today. Starts prepping exactly that. No debate.

The team spends the morning cooking, not estimating.

12:30 PM

Service by QR Code

The employee shows a QR code at the counter. Staff scan it and the tablet shows "Marc - Vegetarian Pasta." The right meal goes to the right person, and the pickup is recorded.

Every pickup is recorded, so you see what was ordered and what was collected.

Cleanup With Less Left Over
02:00 PM

Cleanup With Less Left Over

Cleanup finds plate scrapings and a few leftovers. The 47 schnitzels, 32 pastas and 28 salads were cooked for people who ordered them, and they were eaten.

The kitchen no longer cooks the 30% extra it needed without orders.

The Real Solution

Employees pick their meals before the kitchen starts cooking.

It's just giving your kitchen the one thing they've been missing: actual demand data before they start cooking. Employees order ahead. Kitchen sees exact numbers. Kitchen cooks exact amounts. Food gets eaten, not thrown away.

That's it. Really. No magic. No complexity. Just counting.

Orders close before the week starts, so the numbers are final before the shopping is done.

What We Commit To

Before you sign.

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Not the right fit within 30 days? You get your money back.

We Do The Work

We configure everything. You send us your menu and employee list.

Data Privacy First

GDPR compliant. Your data belongs to you, not us.

Monthly After Year One

Pilot partners commit for 12 months. After that the contract runs monthly, with 30 days' notice.

Benefits

What Changes In Your Kitchen

The kitchen cooks to orders, which changes what goes in the bin, what you buy and how your team spends the morning.

30%
over-production avoided

Less Food in the Bin

Without orders, kitchens cook about 30% more than gets eaten. With Bite Club the kitchen cooks the portions employees ordered, and the reports show what was ordered and picked up.

Public
pricing

Costs You Can Check

Purchasing follows the week's order totals, and the price is on this page.

Morning
prep list

Your Team Cooks Instead of Estimating

Head counts, dish totals and dietary needs are in the morning view, so prep starts without a debate.

Browser
nothing to install

We Do the Setup

We import your employees and menu, configure Bite Club and train your team.

Latest Insights

From the Blog

Guides on measuring and reducing food waste in canteens.

Pilot Program

€5 per user per month

We import your data, configure Bite Club and train your team.

Full Transparency: We're Still Early

We have one pilot partner. That's it. A Portuguese construction company has been testing Bite Club since October 2025. But we're not pretending we're a mature product yet.

That's why we're only taking a small number of partners. We want to personally support each one, learn from each implementation, and make the product better together. Not scale fast. Build right.

What We're Asking

€5 per user per month
30-min monthly feedback call
Share your results publicly

The 30-day money-back guarantee covers the first month.

Ready to Solve Your Food Waste Problem?

Book a call to start your pilot.

30-day money-back guarantee.

What's Included

Included in the pilot price.

One Public Price

€5 per user per month, on this page instead of in a sales call.

€5/user /month

We Handle Setup (Actually)

Data import, configuration, team training. All included. You don't lift a finger.

Your Features Get Built First

Need something? Tell us. If it makes sense, we build it. You're not just a customer—you're shaping the product.

We Make You Look Good

We document your results and turn them into a case study. Your CFO gets proof. You get credit.

Questions

Questions Canteen Managers Ask

Ordering, setup, data protection, costs and contract terms.

Still have questions?

Talk to Us
The Decision

From the First Week of Orders, Your Canteen Looks Like This

Your kitchen starts the day with exact numbers

The 30% extra is no longer cooked, and your pickup data shows it

Food cost follows orders, and you can show where it goes

Your team preps from orders, not estimates

Join the Pilot Program

€5 per user per month. 12-month commitment, then monthly.

Book a Call

What happens next:

Book a call or email us
We go through your canteen and the pilot
We set up Bite Club and train your team

Cancel after 12 months. Monthly thereafter.

"'Can you build me a quick app?' - Famous last words. Nine months later, we have a SaaS business. That's how it happens, apparently."

Adrian

Adrian

Co-Founder, BiteClub

P.S. Not sure it fits your canteen? Book a call and we'll tell you honestly.