# Kitchen Slug

Kitchen Slug is a kitchen operations management platform built specifically for retreat centers and summer camps. It was created by an operations and food service director at a summer camp and retreat center who lived the problem firsthand — managing meal planning on spreadsheets, tracking dietary restrictions with handwritten notes, and building shopping lists from memory of the inventory. After years of wishing something like Kitchen Slug existed, the decision was made to build it. Kitchen Slug is the tool its creator uses every day and wants to share with everyone it can make a difference for.

## What it does
Kitchen Slug gives food service directors a single system to manage meal planning, dietary restrictions, inventory, staff scheduling, dining layouts, and cost tracking. It replaces spreadsheets, handwritten notes, and manual coordination with a purpose-built platform that understands how group-based food service actually works.

## Who it's for
- Summer camp directors and kitchen managers
- Retreat center food service directors
- Conference center operators
- Any organization feeding rotating groups of 50-500+

## Core features
- Group-aware meal scheduling with overlap handling for multiple simultaneous groups
- Recipe library with auto-scaling, cost tracking, and dietary tagging
- Per-person dietary restriction tracking down to individual campers or guests
- Dietary intake forms that groups can fill out before arrival
- Auto-generated shopping lists from scheduled meals
- Inventory tracking with low-stock alerts, deduction projections, and transaction history
- Staff scheduling with custom roles, shift conflict detection, and email notifications
- Dining layout planning tool with drag-and-drop table arrangement and capacity planning
- Cost tracking with per-meal and per-group breakdowns and budget forecasting
- Kitchen request portal for external guest requests with lead-time controls
- Community recipe hub for sharing, forking, and discovering recipes
- Camp-specific hierarchy: season, session, unit, cabin, camper
- AI-powered invoice parsing from photos or PDFs
- AI dietary auto-classification from recipe ingredients
- AI camp roster import from CampMinder
- CSV and PDF exports for menus, dietary reports, and schedules

## Pricing
Pricing is based on your organization's size and needs. The dining layout tool is available free. Request a demo for pricing details.

## How to get access
Kitchen Slug is provisioned by the team. Request a demo at kitchen-slug.com.

## Contact
kitchen-slug.com | Request a demo via the website contact form