PrepStation
For senior center kitchens
Plan every meal When you are the whole kitchen
Calendar meal plans, cost per person, shopping lists, allergens, and nutrition labels, built for a single chef feeding residents. When another site or program asks you to feed them too, turn the plan into a priced client quote.
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Harbor View Senior Center
ActiveResident meal plan · Jul 13–17, 2026
Oatmeal bar
Breakfast
Chicken rice
Lunch
Eggs & toast
Breakfast
Turkey chili
Lunch
Yogurt bowls
Breakfast
Soup & salad
Lunch
Pancakes
Breakfast
Pork loin
Lunch
Fruit & muffin
Breakfast
Fish tacos
Lunch
Total cost
$1,156.80
Cost / person
$4.82
Planned meals
15
Why PrepStation for senior centers
01
Sunday nights back
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with headcount—drag meals into place instead of rewriting a whiteboard every Sunday night.
02
Cost before you buy
See plan total and cost per person from live recipe costs so the food budget isn’t a surprise at receiving.
03
Residents protected at every meal
Ingredient allergen tags flow through recipes and menu items so resident safety isn’t buried in a binder.
No credit card for the live demo
Built for one kitchen, not a chain HQ
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One chef. Forty-eight plates. Zero spare hours. Spreadsheets and sticky notes don’t protect the budget or the residents.
Rewriting the week by hand. Guessing how much chicken to order. Digging for allergen notes when a new resident arrives. That isn’t a catering ops problem—it’s a solo kitchen problem.
Senior kitchen reality
Take this kitchen seriously: a week planned, costed, and shoppable before the truck shows up is how you hold the budget, and how you say yes when a sister facility or community program wants your meals too.
Meal plans
Breakfast through dinner without rewriting the board
Build a meal plan with start and end dates, people count, and sections for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Schedule menu items with servings needed, then reuse a plan as a template when the rotation repeats.
- Month, week, and day calendar views
- Drag meals onto the schedule
- Save plans as templates for the next cycle
- Turn a plan into a priced client quote when another site wants your meals (Catering plan)
Wednesday · Jul 15
Resident meal plan · 48 residents
$278.88
$5.81 / person
Breakfast
7:30 AM · ready 7:15 AM
Steel-cut oatmeal
48
$22.08
Seasonal fruit & toast
48
$31.68
Lunch
12:00 PM · ready 11:30 AM
Herb roasted chicken
48
$78.72
Rice pilaf & garden salad
48
$40.32
Dinner
5:30 PM · ready 5:00 PM
Baked cod
48
$72.00
Roasted carrots & rolls
48
$34.08
Shopping List
Week of Jul 13 · 8 items
Chicken thigh, bone-in
42 lb
Order 2 cases · Sysco · SKU 40182
$168.00
Atlantic cod fillet
28 lb
Order 1 case · Local Seafood
$196.00
Long grain rice
25 lb
Order 1 bag · Sysco · SKU 11804
$32.50
Carrots, fresh
40 lb
Order 1 case · Produce Co
$48.00
Costing & purchasing
Know the spend before the truck arrives
Recipe costs feed the meal plan. The shopping list expands prep recipes into what you actually buy, estimates spend, and suggests vendor package quantities. On the Operations plan, create purchase orders and track inventory par levels in the same kitchen.
Dig into yield-aware recipe costing when you need plate-level detail.
Allergens & nutrition
Resident safety lives on the recipe, not in a binder
Tag allergens on ingredients once. They roll up through recipes and menu items. Pull USDA-backed nutrition and export an FDA-style nutrition facts label when compliance asks.
Herb Roasted Chicken
Allergens rolled up from recipe ingredients
Contains:
Butter · herb baste
May contain:
Chicken stock · vendor label
Traces:
Marinade · shared processing
Herb Roasted Chicken
Recipe nutrition · per serving
Nutrition Facts
48 servings per container
Serving size
1 plate (312g)
Amount per serving
Calories
320
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g
15%
Saturated Fat 4g
20%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 90mg
30%
Sodium 480mg
21%
Total Carbohydrate 27g
10%
Dietary Fiber 3g
11%
Total Sugars 4g
Includes 0g Added Sugars
0%
Protein 28g
Vitamin D 0.2mcg
2%
Calcium 70mg
6%
Iron 2.7mg
15%
Potassium 710mg
15%
* The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet.
INGREDIENTS: Chicken, rice pilaf, garden vegetables, butter, herbs, chicken stock.
Plan a resident week and open the shopping list in the live demo.
From week plan to shopping list
Three moves that replace the whiteboard, the cost guess, and the last-minute vendor call.
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Plan the week
Drop menu items onto breakfast, lunch, and dinner for your headcount. Plan total and cost per person update as you go.
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Build the list
One shopping list flattens prep recipes into buyable ingredients and suggests how many vendor packages to order.
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Send it to the kitchen
Push the plan into production so the prep sheet shows what to make each day, from the same plan you costed.
Related kitchen workflows
Same product stack—different day of the week.
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Senior center kitchens
- Weekly resident meal plans
- Cost per person + shopping lists
- Allergens and nutrition labels
Also a fit
Churches & fellowship kitchens
- Sunday service meal rotations
- Prep sheets for volunteers
- Recipe Player step-by-step cooking
Plan the week's meals by asking Roux.
Tell Roux how many you serve and what you can spend, and he suggests a meal plan from your menus with the cost of each day. He traces allergens to their ingredients, opens nutrition labels, and builds the reports you need on meals served and what they cost.
Try asking Roux
- “Lunch for 80 for 5 days, under $1,200”
- “Where does the dairy in the casserole come from?”
- “Open the nutrition label for the chicken soup”
- “Meals served by day last month”
Roux proposes, you approve. Nothing saves until you do, and he only works in the apps you have turned on.
AI Tool
Using Meal Plan (planning)
- 3 menus, costed
- 5 lunches, soft foods Wednesday
- $1,140 total, $2.85 per meal
Roux
Here's next week's lunch plan for 80 at $1,140, with soft foods on Wednesday. It saves when you approve.
Changes waiting for your approval
- Create meal plan: 5 lunches, 80 people Leave out
Questions senior center chefs ask
Is PrepStation built for a one-chef senior center kitchen?
Yes. Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a calendar with headcount, see cost per person before you shop, and build a shopping list from the same meal plan—without catering banquet software.
Can I see food cost before I place vendor orders?
Yes. Meal plans roll up recipe costs into a total and cost per person. Shopping lists estimate ingredient spend and suggest vendor package quantities so you know the budget before purchasing.
How do allergens work for resident meals?
Tag allergens on ingredients. They roll up automatically through recipes and menu items so you can see definite, potential, and trace allergens on the dishes you serve.
Can I print nutrition labels for recipes?
Yes. Recipes calculate nutrition per serving from USDA-linked ingredients and export an FDA-style nutrition facts label as HTML or PDF.
Does this replace my inventory and purchase orders?
It can. Every plan builds the shopping list from the meal plan. Inventory with par levels and purchase orders are part of the Operations plan, so you can create POs with your vendors in the same system when you are ready.
Do I need a credit card for the live demo?
No. The live demo does not require a credit card. Explore meal planning and costing, then cancel anytime.
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