Branded hotel groups
Capability Brief
🍴 Built for hospitality teams
Platform Acquisition for Branded Hospitality Groups
15 — Feature Modules
48+ — Database Models
106+ — API Routes
5 — Access Roles
WHAT IS CHEF-OPS-PRO?
Chef-Ops-Pro is a full-stack kitchen operations and EHO compliance management platform built for the hospitality and food service industry. It covers temperature monitoring, checklists, staff training, rota management, food cost analysis, and two-way team communications — across any number of properties and outlets.
The Corporate tier makes the entire platform available as a one-time acquisition with full source code, brand ownership, and data sovereignty.
It's an asset, not an expense
Sits on your balance sheet as an owned, depreciable intangible asset — not a recurring cost.
You control your data
Self-hosted on your own infrastructure. No third-party data agreements, ever.
Modify it to fit your business
Your development team can extend and adapt the platform with no vendor permission required.
Pay once, own it forever
No renewals, no price increases, no per-property uplifts as your portfolio grows.
Five pillars of the Corporate acquisition
🍴 What You Acquire
Endless Properties
Brand Standard Compliant
No Ongoing Fee's
1
Full Brand Ownership
2
Data Sovereignty
3
Perpetual Source Licence
4
Acquisition vs. Ongoing SaaS Spend
5
Bespoke Development Pathway
The acquisition maths at scale
For hospitality groups managing 20 or more properties, perpetual SaaS pricing grows as a direct function of portfolio size — indefinitely, with no residual asset value created.
The Corporate acquisition inverts this model entirely.
🍴 Total Cost of Ownership
| Year | Subscription (SaaS) | Owning (Chef-Ops-Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | £36,000 | £24,950 once |
| 2 | £73,440 | £0 |
| 3 | £112,199 | £0 |
| 5 | £197,000+ | £0 |
* Illustrative figures based on typical SaaS platform pricing across a 30-property portfolio with 2% annual uplift. Actual savings will vary based on your current provider and portfolio size.
Check Viability
Three supporting points:
A single one-time acquisition fee of £24,950.
Payable in two equal stages — 50% on contract signing, 50% on delivery of the codebase and documentation pack.
~ No ongoing charges.
~ No hidden fees.
~ No renewal.
🍴 What you pay
The acquisition fee qualifies as an intangible fixed asset under IFRS and UK GAAP — depreciable over the useful economic life of the software, typically 3–7 years.
7 Day FREE Trial
Once acquired, there are no future licence fee increases, per-property charges, module uplifts, or user-seat limits. The asset is unconditional and permanent.
7 Day FREE Trial
For most groups of 20+ properties, the total cost of ownership crossover occurs within 24–36 months — after which every month represents pure saving against a SaaS alternative.
7 Day FREE Trial
What you receive
On payment of the acquisition fee you receive:
- Complete source code: The full Chef-Ops-Pro codebase delivered as a zip archive — all 15 modules, fully documented, production-ready. Yours to deploy on any infrastructure your team chooses.
- Perpetual commercial licence: A written licence granting your organisation the permanent right to use, modify, white-label, and deploy the platform commercially for your own operations.
🍴 Delivery
Environment setup guide
Database schema documentation
Environment variables reference
Infrastructure deployment guide
First-run checklist
Licence agreement
A formal written agreement confirming your rights, the scope of permitted use, and the terms of the transfer.
Get startedA formal written agreement confirming your rights, the scope of permitted use, and the terms of the transfer.
Important to note: Deployment of the platform is the responsibility of your organisation or your chosen development partner. Chef-Ops-Pro does not provide deployment support, hosting, or infrastructure management as part of the acquisition. The documentation pack is comprehensive and written for a competent development team.
Ideal customer profile
🍴 Who's it for
Built on modern, enterprise-grade technology
A full-stack web application with PWA capabilities, built on a well-documented, widely adopted technology stack. Any competent development team can deploy, extend, and maintain the platform independently from day one.
🍴 Platform Architecture
Frontend
- Next.js 16 App Router
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS 4 + SCSS
Backend
- Node.js API Routes
- Prisma 7 ORM
- Iron Session auth
- Resend email
Data
- PostgreSQL
- 48+ schema models
- Decimal precision temps
- Multi-timezone support
Infrastructure
- PWA-ready
- Web Push notifications
- @react-pdf/renderer
- Multi-property scoped
All 15 modules — individually toggled per property
Every module is included in the acquisition. Enable or disable each one per property — so every site runs exactly what it needs and nothing it doesn't.
🍴 Feature Modules- ModuleDescription
- Fridge and freezer temperature logging with threshold alerts.
- Food temperature checks and records for cooking, holding and service.
- Monthly food cost tracking against targets — outlet or property-wide.
- Blast chilling logs — start, finish, compliance. Requires Food Temp.
- Maintenance reporting and completion tracking across all equipment.
- Weekly rota planning and publishing with staff-facing schedule view.
- Stock ordering and procurement requests with approval workflows.
- Printable and downloadable compliance reports for EHO inspection.
- Cleaning schedules, opening/closing checks and HACCP compliance lists.
- Staff training documents, e-signatures, and expiry tracking.
- OutletsSplit a property into named outlets, each with its own data view.
- Allergen ManagementAllergen HACCP checklist — labelling, segregation, cross-contamination.
- Team handover and operational notes for shift-to-shift continuity.
- Delivery TemperaturesLog delivery temps, vehicle condition, product checks, acceptance.
- Incident ReportsLog accidents, near misses, food safety incidents and RIDDOR events.
