Guides & Tutorials
Getting started with Culizen
Your first 10 minutes: what Culizen does, how scanning an invoice updates every recipe's margin, and how to find your way around.
Set up your restaurant
Set your VAT country and your cost targets once, so every food-cost % and margin Culizen shows you is correct.
Scan your first invoice
Take a photo or upload a PDF. Culizen reads the supplier, date and every line, creates the products for you, and pushes the new prices into your recipes.
Create and cost a recipe
Add ingredients and quantities, set your selling price, and read your food-cost %, profit and margin health in real time.
Prep items & cascading sub-recipes
Batch yields, sauces, stocks, and mise en place. Update an invoice ingredient and every sub-recipe and parent dish updates automatically.
Menu engineering & margins
The 4-quadrant matrix (Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, Dogs), sales channel mix, and delivery platform commission deductions.
Stock takes, par levels & waste tracking
Track on-hand inventory, printable count sheets, quick waste logging by reason, and the Drain Report (theoretical vs actual usage).
Real-time P&L & financials
Executive P&L statement, COGS completeness, Prime Cost (55-65% target), and overhead expense targets.
Credit notes & supplier management
Vendor directory, credit note netting, price inflation alerts, multi-supplier variants, and instant QR invoice verification.
Multi-venue management & team roles
Switching between restaurant branches, location-scoped inventory, and Owner vs Manager vs Viewer permissions.
Chef Intelligence: Your AI Kitchen Co-Pilot
How to use conversational AI to optimize recipe margins, navigate ingredient price spikes, and scale batches.
Allergen sheets, exports & health inspection compliance
Generate official 14-allergen matrices for EU compliance, export P&L statements for your accountant, and print inventory valuation sheets.
Kitchen FAQ & troubleshooting
Answers to common kitchen questions: fixing zero-cost dishes, correcting invoice matches, managing price spikes, and staff visibility.