Why did this dish's margin drop?
Ask Karl in plain words. Karl looks at your recipes, costs and sales and answers with the numbers.
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Karl answers from your venue's own data. Every night, Kalanteer also checks your stock, sales, waste and margins, and flags what needs you.
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Karl, AI Chef
Why did my Caesar Salad margin drop?
Chicken breast went from €7.30 to €12.80/kg, so Caesar Salad now costs €3.59 to make and its margin fell from 69.6% to 64.1%. Raising the price to €10.50 lifts it to 65.8%.
How do I add a new supplier?
Open Ordering → Suppliers and press Add Supplier. Then go to Ingredients, edit each ingredient you buy from them and pick the supplier in the Add a supplier… field. When one of them needs reordering, it shows up under that supplier in Order Suggestions.
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The questions it answers
What will run out this week?
Every night Kalanteer checks your stock and warns you when an ingredient has less than two days left.
Where is money slipping away?
Nightly alerts flag a margin drop, stock missing after a count, stock piling up and unusual waste.
How it works
- Eight checks every night
Stock, sales, waste, prep and margins, for your venue.
- Alerts in plain words
In your language, each with a button to the screen where you fix it.
- Ask Karl anything
Tap the chef button on any page and ask about your numbers.
What's inside
- Stockout warningsWhen an ingredient has less than two days left.
- OverstockWhen stock is piling up for more than ten days.
- Missing stockWhen a count shows more than 8% gone.
- Margin dropsWhen a dish's margin falls by more than 5 points.
- Sales against the planWhen a dish sells far more or less than you expected.
- Staff wasteWhen one person's waste is well above the team's.
- Where alerts arriveThe bell in Kalanteer, browser notifications, and Telegram for stockouts.
- Karl in 25 languagesSales, stock, waste, recipes, suppliers and orders, in each person's language.
Good to know
- On Chef, Karl needs your own Anthropic API key: Kalanteer adds no charge, Anthropic bills you for what you use. On Executive Chef, Karl runs on ours - no key, no AI bill.
- Alerts and Karl advise: they don't change your data or place orders.
- The sales and forecast checks need a connected POS.
Read only, by design
- Karl only reads your data. Nothing gets changed.
- Each person only gets answers from what their role can see.
- On Chef, your key is stored encrypted and checked when you add it.
AI Assistant comes with Chef (€19.99/mo) and Executive Chef.
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Questions about the AI assistant
Do I need my own AI key?
On Chef, yes: add your own Anthropic API key. Kalanteer adds no charge; Anthropic bills you for what you use. On Executive Chef, no: Karl runs on our key, with no AI bill. The nightly alerts don't need a key.
Can Karl change my data or place orders?
No. Karl only reads, and each person only sees what their role allows.
Who can use Karl?
Admins, to start with. You can give other roles access.
Where do the alerts arrive?
In Kalanteer's bell, as browser notifications, and in Telegram for stockouts.
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