PrepStation
For kitchen teams, training & sharing
Recipe books that work Not a binder of loose pages
Collect the recipes for a station, a rotation, a training set or a seasonal menu into one book. Each recipe keeps its live cost and scaling, the kitchen shops and checks stock from it, and you choose who opens it: your team, a direct link, or the public.
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Recipe book
Line Cook Training Book
Sauces, proteins, sides, and bread for the dinner line
Sauces
Red Wine Jus
4 qt
Prep recipe
Proteins
Braised Short Rib
20 portions
Scale locked
Sides
Creamy Polenta
24 portions
Contains milk
Bread
Country Loaf
8 loaves
Baker’s %
Why kitchens use recipe books
01
Train and standardize
One book per station or training level, with sections, target yields and notes, so every cook makes the dish the same way.
02
Buy for the whole book
Roll every scaled recipe into one combined shopping list and check it against current inventory.
03
Share on your terms
Keep house standards private, send a new hire or a client a link, list a book publicly, or embed it on your website.
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Recipe books and public sharing on every plan
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A binder is not a working recipe book. It can’t scale, shop, or keep up with the recipe.
Station binders, training PDFs and shared drives drift away from the recipe you actually cost and cook. Keep the recipes in order, scale each one for the job, and give the team one dependable place to open them, in any kind of kitchen.
Take the recipe library seriously
A book should stay useful after you build it: for training, prep, purchasing, inventory checks, sharing and print.
Curated collections
Build books the way your kitchen works
Create sections for stations, service periods, training levels, courses or weeks. Add recipes from the library your kitchen already costs, then set a target yield and a note for each one’s role in this book.
- Curated sections with ordered recipes
- Target yields and scaling per book item
- Book notes and recipe-level curator notes
Senior Center Winter Rotation
Four sections · ordered recipe collection
- 01 Week one 8 recipes · 420 portions
- 02 Week two 9 recipes · 438 portions
- 03 Week three 8 recipes · 416 portions
- 04 Week four 10 recipes · 452 portions
Build a working collection from the recipes already in your kitchen library.
Shopping List
Combined ingredients · scaled quantities
Beef short rib
150 lb
In stockCremini mushrooms
42 lb
Not in stockPuff pastry
120 sheets
In stockBosc pears
96 each
Not in stockHeavy cream
8 gal
In stockFrom collection to procurement
One shopping list for every recipe in the book
PrepStation aggregates repeated ingredients across the collection and applies each recipe's scale. Check the result against inventory at the current location before the first prep shift starts.
- Duplicate ingredients combine into one required quantity
- Item-level scaling flows into the total need
- Inventory check surfaces on-hand status before production
Controlled sharing
Choose who can open the book
Keep house standards private to the team, send a new hire or a client a direct link, or publish a collection for discovery. Turn on embeds and printing only when they fit the job.
Share Holiday Catering Collection
Configure the production sharing state
One source for the collection
Train the team from the recipes you actually cook
The same recipes used for costing and production become the collection you review, shop, print, and share.
Start with recipes that already know their numbers
Build each collection on live recipe costing, then use it inside meal and production planning. Add nutrition labels and allergens from the same recipes. If you also sell, clients can order from your online storefront. See pricing for plans.
Name the recipes. Roux builds the book.
Tell him which recipes go in and he makes the book, sorts them into sections, and publishes it when you approve. He scales a recipe for the line, opens it in the step-by-step recipe player, and hands you its public share link.
Try asking Roux
- “Make a Holiday Catering book with our three braises”
- “Move the desserts into their own section”
- “Open the short ribs in the recipe player for 40”
- “Give me the share link for the pecan tart”
Roux proposes, you approve. Nothing saves until you do, and he only works in the apps you have turned on.
AI Tool
Using Recipe Book (building)
- 4 recipes found
- Sections: Mains and sides, Desserts
- Set to publish
Roux
Holiday Catering is ready with 4 recipes in 2 sections. It publishes when you approve.
Changes waiting for your approval
- Create recipe book: Holiday Catering, 4 recipes Leave out
- Publish Holiday Catering Leave out
Questions chefs and operators ask
Straight answers about collections, shopping lists, and sharing controls.
What is a digital recipe book in PrepStation?
A digital recipe book is a curated collection of recipes organized into named sections. Each recipe can keep its own yield, scaling, and curator notes inside the collection.
Can I use recipe books to train new cooks?
Yes. Make a book per station or training level, order the recipes in sections, add a note on each, and keep it private to your team. Every recipe keeps its own yield and scaling, so the book matches what the kitchen makes.
Are recipe books only for caterers?
No. Recipe books and public sharing are included on every plan. Restaurants, bakeries, commissaries and institutional kitchens use them for stations, rotations, training sets and seasonal menus.
Can I share a recipe book without making it public?
Yes. Link-only sharing keeps the book out of the public listing while allowing anyone with the direct link to view it. You can also keep the book private to your team.
Can recipe books be embedded on another website?
Yes. Shared books can provide an iframe embed when embedding is enabled, so a collection can appear on a marketing, client, or community website.
Does a recipe book create a shopping list?
Yes. PrepStation combines ingredients across the recipes in a book and applies each recipe's selected scaling so the collection produces one procurement list.
Can I check the book against current inventory?
Yes. The book's combined shopping list can be checked against inventory at the current location to show what is on hand before production begins.
Can viewers print a shared recipe book?
Yes. Book owners can allow printing and PDF access, or turn printing off in the sharing settings.
PrepStation
Build the book your team cooks from
Pick the recipes, scale the quantities, check the shopping list, and share one book with the team or the world.
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