Engineering
Where recipes are cleaned up, matched to your ingredients and approved before they go live in your kitchen.
is the workshop between a recipe someone wrote and a recipe your kitchen runs on. Recipes imported from a spreadsheet, captured in the chef app or built on the desktop all land here first. Nothing in Engineering is part of your live menu until it is .
Open it from Engineering in the desktop sidebar:
| Sidebar item | What it is |
|---|---|
| Home | Where you are, what to fix next, and shortcuts to each step. |
| Recipes | Every recipe in Engineering, with approve, promote and recall. |
| Finish recipes | Sort recipes into dishes and sub recipes, and match their ingredients. |
In this section
How Engineering works
The steps from import to promote.
Engineering Home
Your progress and what to fix next.
Import recipes
Bring in a spreadsheet of recipes.
Sort and match
File recipes and link every ingredient.
The recipe editor
Ingredients, yield, category and method.
Approve and promote
Sign off and send recipes live.
Who can use Engineering
Every ChefAdmin account has Engineering, including the free plan. Approving and promoting need a Company Manager, Owner or Super-Admin, and promoting needs the plan.