My sister is a pastry chef and cook. She spent years studying and collecting recipes of every kind. The latest way she found to organize that mess was a spreadsheet. A simple Google Sheets spreadsheet.
Anyone who has tried to manage any kind of business inside Excel knows exactly where this story tends to go: tabs multiply like rabbits, formulas break all the time, and a love-hate relationship with Google Drive grows until phones, tablets, or computers, maybe all three, start getting thrown out windows. At some point she showed me the spreadsheet, and I interpreted that mess as a cry for help that became Receitório.
The app was developed in partnership with her, which in practice means every feature went through the strictest test possible: a professional pastry chef using it day to day, with deadlines, with customers waiting, and with exactly zero patience for bugs. Today alone she already told me about the same bug twice, and both times I answered, “I’m fixing it!”.
Receitório organizes recipes, controls ingredient inventory, and tracks sales in one place. One of the features I most enjoyed implementing to make her life easier was importing purchased ingredients from a Nota Fiscal directly into the app, so inventory can be updated automatically. It also has recipe sharing, for people who work with a team or simply want to keep a clean version of their creations.
What became clear during development is that management apps for small food businesses are almost always either heavily locked-down spreadsheets or poorly adapted ports of generic inventory software. They do not understand that a recipe has context, yield, unit cost, variations, and that all of this needs to talk directly to what you sell and what you have at home.
Receitório was built the other way around: starting from the real needs of people who produce and sell food, not from an abstract business model.
It is available for testing at receitorio.app. If you are a pastry chef, baker, or work with any kind of small-batch food production, and you are still in that troubled relationship with a spreadsheet, it is worth a look. The spreadsheet will miss you, but you will not miss it. I hope.