The Revolutionary Software Platform with Four Applications
Empowering Chefs, Mixologists, Restaurateurs, and Industry Professionals.
Cover is an innovative software platform featuring four applications designed for the Culinary Industry:
Culinary Exchange for Recipe Sharing
Chef Chat for networking amongst Professional Members
Nosh Pit for Sharing Insights and Collaboration
Cover Connect for Job Matching and Gig / Stagiaire Opportunities
With these four initial applications, Cover is committed to extending the lifespan of restaurants by improving operational efficiency and supporting the career longevity of chefs, mixologists, and restaurant professionals.
Chefs: Creativity is at the heart of the Cover Culinary Ecosystem. Chefs are the primary creators and contributors of recipes and creative content within the Cover Culinary Exchange.
Mixologists/Beverage Directors: Most great culinary experiences include an excellent aqueous pairing and are thus an important part of the Cover mission. These creators provide content like their kitchen counterparts.
Restaurateurs: Restaurateurs make great culinary experiences possible. They also must run a business. Cover gives relief by providing a space where resources and talent are both high quality and affordable.
Culinary Curious/Home Chef: Cover connects the professional with the enthusiast. This member can subscribe to professional level recipes from top talent.
Industry Newcomers: The future is in good hands. Culinary graduates, stagiaires, and students need experience to move the industry forward. Cover provides access to opportunities to learn, engage, contribute and grow.
Industry Professionals: Delivering a memorable and impactful experience takes more than delicious food and drink, it needs great service. From the valet to the Sommelier, all are essential. Cover provides access to essential tools and content for a wide scope of roles.
Cover supports you by providing an industry-focused platform to showcase your recipes, amplify your talent, and provide business solutions all within one platform.
It is widely known that the restaurant industry is one of the most difficult to find success and longevity. This applies not only to the restaurant itself, but to the chefs, mixologists, beverage directors, service staff and their many counterparts. The Cover Culinary Ecosystem is where industry professionals can find a place with the tools and resources to pursue success and stability. Newcomers enjoy access to critical experience. Members elevate their craft and technique as they collaborate and innovate with others. Beyond industry professionals, home chefs, beverage enthusiasts, and the “culinary curious” can build community and unparalleled access to an industry that is notoriously elusive.
The lifespan of any restaurant can be very brief. The Cover Culinary Ecosystem provides industry professionals a platform to showcase their recipes and expertise. Cover offers restaurateurs access to talent, creations, and support all on an ad hoc basis. This enables restaurants to operate with lower financial exposure and burden, while providing an environment that fosters creativity and dedication.
Cover strives to provide ALL staff members, at EVERY restaurant, at ANY skill level with the tools, resources, and peer support needed to achieve their goals.
Cover can help the Culinary Industry in a variety of ways:
Unlocking New Revenue Streams with Cover Culinary Exchange
Cover Culinary Exchange offers chefs, mixologists, and food & beverage professionals a unique platform to showcase and share their talents. Through Cover’s innovative recipe publishing tools and subscription model, industry veterans can list, manage and track the popularity of their prized creations—whether it’s a signature dish or an inventive cocktail—directly to other professionals and culinary enthusiasts. Cover takes a user-centric approach, enabling contributors to bolster their image and scale their talent while fostering a vibrant ecosystem of culinary creativity and innovation.
Connecting and Innovating with Chef Chat
Chef Chat is a members-only application designed to connect and network professional members, allowing them to innovate with peers and share best practices. This exclusive platform enhances collaboration among industry professionals, fostering a focused space for culinary inspiration and creativity.
Empowering Restaurateurs to spin up concepts more quickly, add diversity to their offerings and save on R&D
By sourcing recipe innovations directly from industry experts through Cover Culinary Exchange and collaborating over Cover Chef Chat, owners can leverage the Cover Platform to scale, diversify and save on costly research and development (R&D). Additionally, Cover is the ultimate resource for talent acquisition. With a dedicated job board through Cover Connect that connects employers with skilled FOH and BOH staff. Restaurant owners are not charged a per job posting fee, so they can post as many job openings as they want and connect and network with Cover’s owner/operator solutions.
Sharing Insights and Opportunities with the Nosh Pit
In addition to job matching and recipe sharing, Cover introduces the Nosh Pit, an interactive forum where users can share articles, insights, industry trends, job opportunities, and more. The Nosh Pit fosters a collaborative community for chefs, mixologists, restaurateurs, and culinary enthusiasts alike, enabling them to exchange ideas, stay informed, and find new opportunities.
Job Matching and Gig Opportunities through Cover Connect
The platform also addresses another critical challenge facing the culinary industry: labor shortages and high turnover. With Cover Connect, both front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) professionals can discover extra shifts, temporary gigs, and full-time roles. This makes it easier for restaurant owners to staff their venues while offering professionals additional ways to earn income and gain experience. Newcomers to the industry can search for vital entry-level opportunities, while seasoned pros can enhance their careers by connecting with top-tier restaurants.
Cover Culinary Exchange - Recipe App:
We do our best to keep our recipes Clean, Quality, Easy to Use, and Ad Free.
Post your recipes on Cover to grow your professional brand, show your skills to higher tier members, amplify a new offering at your restaurant, and much more!
There are 3 Tiers of Recipes on the Cover Culinary Exchange:
Everyone: These recipes are available to all users on Cover.
Platinum: These are typically higher quality recipes available to all users with a membership on Cover.
Professional: This is our highest recipe Tier intended to be the most complete and highest quality recipes available to all users with a membership on Cover.
Only users with a membership can view Platinum and Professional Recipe Details. Access to details requires a subscription.
Each recipe subscription deducts 1 credit from the subscribers balance. Subscriptions are made by clicking on the "Subscribe" button on the footer of the recipe.
Our Recipes have 5 main components:
Recipe Information: this is the data that anyone can see prior to subscribing to the recipe. It includes:
Tasting Notes
Menu Fit
Recipe Style
Cuisine
Seasonality
Dietary Information
Image: in order to keep things clean and easy, we allow one image to be uploaded. Most well thought out recipes can be presented well with one image.
Ingredients: this section includes the ingredient name, measurement, and unit of measure.
Build Guide: this section describes how to compose the recipe.
Recipe Support: for some membership levels, Cover enables Direct Messaging with the Chef-Author.
Cover Connect - Gig/ Stagiaire/ Job App:
Cover offers some Membership Levels the ability to post Jobs on Cover Connect. Cover Connect can help Operators find great talent and quickly make that initial connection.
Cover Connect offers three different type of Job Categories:
(1) Gigs / Stagiaire (2) Part-Time (3) Full Time
Qualifying members can connect directly with each other on the Cover Platform. Our goal is to
keep the process easy, clean, simple and low cost.
Cover Chef Chat - Direct Messenger App:
Cover offers some Membership Levels access to use Cover's Direct Messaging App, Chef Chat.
Cover Chef Chat is a lightweight, cross-platform Direct Messager that connects Professional Members.
Nosh Pit - Article App:
Cover offers some Membership Levels the ability to post Articles on the the Nosh Pit.
Tags: Nosh Pit enables publishers to tag their articles in any category of their choice.
Topics: Author are asked to select a Topic for each of their articles. The Nosh Pit offers the following topics:
Chefs
Bartenders
Lifestyle
Ingredients & Sourcing
Industry
Front of House (FOH)
Back of House (BOH)
Shifties (Misc)
Personal Dashboards for Contributors and Operators: