Welcome to Chef Notepad
Discover how we are helping chefs and business owners worldwide, and why we want to help you and your kitchen.
Meet Guillaume Zika, founder of Chef Notepad.
Guillaume has been a chef for almost 20 years. With experience from around the globe in Michelin starred restaurants in Cannes, Paris, New York, Dublin, London and now Australia. Guillaume is passionate about innovation and improving the restaurant industry. 5 years ago, after using spreadsheets for years, he was looking for a simple way to calculate his food costs and store his recipes. Unable to find the right program, he created Chef Notepad. His program is considered today the ultimate kitchen tool for Chefs to calculate recipes, manage food costs and simplify stocktake.
Chef Notepad today.
We are thrilled to support businesses such as restaurants, bakeries, food trucks, pizzerias and more. Chef Notepad proudly helps chefs and restaurant owners in over 15 different countries. Keeping our price low is crucial and supports chefs and restaurant owners to stay in control of their food costs and streamline their kitchens. Industry professionals with consulting businesses work alongside Chef Notepad to support and help our industry.
We are pleased to collaborate with schools to help educate young chefs on the importance of food costing and wastage in restaurants. We believe that creating good habits and having a clear understanding from the start will guide the future of the restaurant industry.
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Vision
We want to change the way chefs look at recipes and food costs and help them manage these things better. Being a chef is one of the most fast paced and challenging jobs in the world and Chef Notepad is here to help make your job much easier. We want you to spend more time being creative in the kitchen and less time doing admin.
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Mission
Our purpose is making the restaurant industry better. To simplify kitchen tasks and to make a chef’s life easier. Calculating a recipe can be complex, but it doesn’t mean you should use complicated methods to solve it. Margins are so thin in the food industry and it’s critical to stay on top of your food cost %.
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Values
Education, simplicity and efficiency are our focus. We are a team from the hospitality industry that believes in change. We are committed to searching for improvements and effectiveness. We value honest feedback from chefs from around the world to constantly evolve Chef Notepad to suit every kitchen.
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