Prep & Recipes
The recipe book and prep companion for restaurant kitchens, built for the whole crew, in English and Spanish.
The Pass gives a restaurant one trusted recipe book that every cook can open on a phone or tablet, in their own language. Chefs build it by typing, pasting, or scanning the binder they already have, and nothing is saved until a chef confirms it's right.
Most kitchens run on a stained binder, laminated cards taped above the station, and whatever the person who trained you remembered. It works until it doesn't: a new cook guesses the salt, the weekend crew makes the aioli differently, and the chef who wrote the recipes leaves.
39% of US cooks, 35% of dishwashers and 31% of food prep workers are Hispanic.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025. The Pass treats Spanish as a first-class language, included for everyone.The Pass is named for the window between the kitchen and the dining room, where every plate gets checked before it goes out. It brings that same check to your recipes.
Open any recipe in seconds, scale it to the batch you need, and see timers, temperatures and allergens right on the card.
Chefs control the recipes. Every save is verified by a person, and the card shows who checked it and when.
Photograph your binder and The Pass lays each recipe out for you to check, instead of retyping it all.
Create your restaurant and its locations in a couple of minutes. Running more than one? Each location gets its own crew and recipes, and you choose what's shared.
Type them in the recipe studio, paste an ingredient list and let The Pass split out amounts and units, or scan your binder, cards and printouts.
Show the invite QR code on your phone. Cooks scan it with their camera, sign up, and see only the location they work at, in the role you gave them.
Whether a recipe was typed, pasted or scanned, it lands in the same clean card. Every section is optional, so a quick sauce stays simple and a banquet item can carry everything.
Photograph a handwritten card, a binder page, a printout or a screenshot from a website. The Pass reads it and lays it out as a recipe card for a chef to check.
Ingredients, steps, yields and titles that aren't on the original are left out and listed. Lines it skipped are offered to add, never added on their own. Fixes are suggested, never applied without the chef.
Built and tuned on real handwritten kitchen cards and recipe-site screenshots, ignoring ads and page clutter. A typical page takes 12 to 20 seconds.
| Role | Sees | Can do |
|---|---|---|
| Owner / Exec chef | The whole restaurant group | Add locations, manage chefs, share recipes across locations, everything below |
| Chef / Sous chef | The locations they run | Create, scan and edit recipes; invite staff with a QR code; manage their team |
| Cook | The locations they work at | Open and scale recipes, read allergens, timers and temperatures |
One group, several kitchens. Staff only see where they work; a chef who runs two locations sees both.
The whole app works in English and Spanish, chosen per person and saved to their account.
People can only invite roles below their own, enforced inside the database, not just the screen.
Early access kitchens use The Pass free for 90 days from sign-up and help shape what we build next.
Licensing terms and pricing will be published before the early access period begins.
No. The Pass runs on the phones, tablets and computers you already have. It installs to the home screen like an app, and native App Store and Google Play versions are on the way.
Today The Pass needs a connection. An offline recipe book is next on the roadmap, so recipes open in the walk-in or a dead spot, followed by offline prep counts.
No. The scanner only copies what's written on your card, flags anything it isn't sure about, and suggests fixes for a chef to accept or ignore. Nothing is saved until a chef verifies it.
No. Scans are read by AI models running on our own servers, and your images and recipes are never used to train models or shared with AI companies.
Yes, if your kitchen allows it. Cooks join by scanning a QR code on the chef's phone and see only their location. A shared kitchen tablet works too.
You can license The Pass to keep using it, or download all your recipes as a CSV spreadsheet to keep. Licensing terms will be published before early access begins.
English and Spanish today, chosen by each person. More languages are planned based on kitchen staff demographics.
Join early access, set up your kitchen in minutes, and scan your first recipe today.