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title: "Ingredients, Costs & Suppliers for Hospitality Teams | Havenue"
description: "Your food-cost engine: unit-aware ingredient costs, recipe and set-menu GP%, supplier context, and allergens that flow through. One canonical cost everywhere. When a supplier price moves, the margin moves with it."
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# Know what every dish costs.

Track ingredients, suppliers and allergens in one place, with unit-aware cost per portion and gross profit on every recipe and set menu.

Plans from £399 a month, after 7 days free.

Ingredients, Costs & Suppliers is your food-cost engine. Each ingredient carries its purchase and recipe units, price, supplier and allergens, so recipes and set menus show a cost and a GP% you can price against. When a supplier price moves, the margin moves everywhere that ingredient is used.

## The problem this solves

Costing in a spreadsheet goes stale the moment a supplier price moves. Havenue keeps ingredient costs, recipes and menu margins connected, so the number you price against is the number that is true today.

## How it works

1. **Build the ingredient list** : Add ingredients, or import them, with purchase and recipe units, price, supplier and allergens.
2. **Cost unit-aware** : Costs convert safely across weight, volume and count. Anything ambiguous is flagged, never guessed.
3. **See recipe & menu GP%** : Every recipe and set menu shows cost per portion and gross profit in your currency.
4. **Link suppliers** : Tie each ingredient to a supplier, with lead time, terms and minimum order.
5. **Price with confidence** : When a cost moves, the margin moves with it, before you send the menu.

## What you get

- **Unit-aware costing** : Accurate costs even when recipes mix grams, millilitres and counts.
- **Recipe & menu GP%** : Cost per portion and gross profit on every recipe and set menu.
- **One canonical cost** : A dish costs the same number in the builder, the Vault, reports and the dashboard.
- **Allergens that flow through** : Ingredient allergens carry into recipes, menus and event sheets.
- **Suppliers in context** : Lead time, terms and minimum order, linked to the ingredients they supply.

## Who this is for

- Head Chef
- Cost Controller
- Purchasing

## What Havenue is

Havenue is the AI-native dietary and catering management software for hospitality: catering companies, hotels, venues, restaurants and private dining.

It automates the back-of-house behind event catering, from the enquiry to the kitchen pass to the invoice. The Dietary & Catering Engine checks every dish against every guest's requirements and finds safe replacement dishes from the operator's own recipes, for chef sign-off. Around it sit an advanced, automated event CRM with a live pipeline, a smart inventory and stock system with every allergen tagged from the ingredients themselves, recipe and menu costing with live cost per head and GP%, ordering and supplier management, invoicing, billing and client payments, generated BEOs and allergen matrices, reporting, and the full platform in a mobile browser. One integrated platform, one event record.