Chef NourishMay – Sep 2026

Chef Nourish

Meal production for a private chef kitchen, from client diets to delivery labels

#Client work#Full stack#AI#Operations

Type: Client workat Plethora
Team: 3 engineers
Duration: 5 monthsMay – Sep 2026
Tools: Next.js, ReactTypeScriptPostgreSQL, NeonOpenAIVercel
Link: Private

Every client eats differently. Every week the kitchen has to turn those diets into menus, cut sheets, labels and deliveries without a single mistake.

Overview

Chef Nourish is the internal system a private chef kitchen runs on. It holds client profiles and dietary restrictions, builds the weekly menus, and produces everything the kitchen and drivers need: cut sheets, labels, menu sheets, packing stations and delivery spreadsheets.

Writing a week's menu, with the cut sheet filling in beside it

Context

[How the kitchen worked before: what was done by hand, and what went wrong.]

Safety first, then AI

Restrictions are checked deterministically against an ingredient catalogue: if a dish conflicts with a client's diet, the check says so, every time. AI helps with the creative part, suggesting dishes and substitutions, and a person reviews before anything reaches the kitchen.

What it covers

Client profiles, plans, schedules, addresses and normalised dietary restrictions
Menu creation with substitutions, custom meals, history and recovery copies
PDF and Word cut sheets, labels, menu sheets and delivery spreadsheets
Cook roster, kitchen boards, packing stations and container inventory
Invite-only Google sign-in and team administration

My part

[What you owned on the team of three: features, decisions, and the hand-off to the client.]

Reflections

[What you learned building for a real kitchen.]