Four applications designed for Culinary Creatives:
Culinary Exchange for Recipe Sharing
Chef Chat for networking amongst Professional Members
Nosh Pit for Sharing Insights and Collaboration
Connect for Job Matching and Gig / Stagiaire Opportunities
Solutions to accelerate innovation, lower R&D costs, and ultimately to help chefs, mixologists, and restaurant professionals build their careers.
Solutions to help the Culinary Industry in a variety of ways:
Unlocking New Revenue Streams with Culinary Exchange
Culinary Exchange offers chefs, mixologists, and food & beverage professionals a unique platform to showcase and share their talents. With innovative recipe publishing tools and subscription models, 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. We take 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 the Culinary Exchange and collaborating over Chef Chat, owners can leverage the Platform to scale, diversify and save on costly research and development (R&D).
Sharing Insights and Opportunities with the Nosh Pit
In addition to job matching and recipe sharing, the Nosh Pit, 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 Connect
The platform also addresses another critical challenge facing the culinary industry: labor shortages and high turnover. With 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.
Culinary Exchange - Recipe App:
We do our best to keep our recipes Clean, Quality, Easy to Use, and Ad Free.
Post your recipes 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 Culinary Exchange:
Everyone: These recipes are available to all users.
Platinum: These are typically higher quality recipes available to all users with a membership.
Professional: This is our highest recipe Tier intended to be the most complete and highest quality recipes available to all users with a membership.
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, our solution enables Direct Messaging with the Chef-Author.
Connect - Gig/ Stagiaire/ Job App:
Membership Levels the ability to post Jobs on Connect. Connect can help Operators find great talent and quickly make that initial connection.
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 Platform. Our goal is to
keep the process easy, clean, simple and low cost.
Chef Chat - Direct Messenger App:
Membership Levels access to use our Direct Messaging App, Chef Chat.
Chef Chat is a lightweight, cross-platform Direct Messager that connects Professional Members.