🌎 Born in Colombia · Expanding across Latam

The operational intelligence for your bulk foodservice operation

We control costs against real prices from your local wholesale market — Corabastos, CEDA, Lo Valledor and more. For school feeding programs, catering, corporate foodservice, hospitals and multi-site operators.

🎒 School Feeding 🏢 Corporate Catering 🏥 Hospital Foodservice 🍽️ Corporate 🌐 Multi-site
Óptimo — Local wholesale market · Today
Cost/portion
$4,280
↓ 8% vs yesterday
Net margin
24%
✓ On target
Price alerts
2
active
Wholesale market prices — Colombia: Corabastos
Chicken thigh $8,500/kg ↑15%
Potato / tubers $1,200/kg ↓5%
Dry legumes $3,800/kg →
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Suggested substitution: Chicken → Lentils this week. Savings: $180/portion with the same protein profile.
✓ Nutritional compliance OK
🔗 Integrated with Katú
🍽️ Solutions by sector

Built for every type of operator

The real problem

You plan menus without knowing what they'll cost tomorrow

Regardless of sector — school feeding, catering or corporate — bulk foodservice operators share the same problem: deciding without real-time wholesale price visibility. Until now.

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    Margins that vanish without warning

    Chicken jumps 15% at Corabastos on a Tuesday, and the operator finds out when closing the books at month-end. By then the margin is already gone.

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    Manual nutrition planning

    Menu cycles designed in spreadsheets, with no automatic validation of calories, protein or compliance with institutional standards.

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    Improvised substitutions

    When an ingredient's price spikes, the swap is made "by eye" with no calculation of cost impact or nutritional equivalence.

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    Inventory with no traceability

    Stock tracked in notebooks or spreadsheets. No real waste tracking, no expiration alerts, no warning signals before running out of supplies.

+25% Average weekly variation in protein prices across Latam wholesale markets
40% Of the administrator's time spent on manual cost calculations and reports
3x More profitable when decisions are made with real wholesale market prices
1 day Average lag between an ingredient's price rising and the operator finding out
📊 Our edge

We calculate against the real prices of your wholesale market

In Colombia we integrate directly with Corabastos (Bogotá), Medellín's Central Mayorista and Cavasa (Cali). Every day we pull ~174 products with updated prices — with no manual intervention.

Across the rest of Latam, we connect to each city's reference wholesale market. The mechanism is the same: your menus always carry a cost based on real prices, not estimates.

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We also integrate with your direct suppliers — if you buy at a negotiated price different from the wholesale one, the system compares both sources and tells you which is more convenient today.
Wholesale market
Corabastos · CEDA · Lo Valledor
Akenda
Processes + compares
Your menu
Today's real cost
Decision
With data, not guesswork
Wholesale markets — integrated and on the roadmap
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Colombia
Corabastos (Bogotá) · Central Mayorista (Medellín) · Cavasa (Cali)
● Active
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Mexico
Central de Abastos CDMX · CEDA Ecatepec
Coming soon
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Chile
Lo Valledor · La Vega (Santiago)
Coming soon
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Peru
Gran Mercado Mayorista de Lima (GMML)
Coming soon
🇨🇷
Costa Rica
CENADA · Mercado Borbón (San José)
Coming soon
🍽️ Our products

One platform. Everything you need to operate.

Two products that cover the full cycle — from cost intelligence to AI-assisted daily operations.

⭐ Óptimo by Akenda

Cost intelligence for your operation

Connects your menus to real wholesale market prices from your city, every day. Calculates food cost with real waste factors, validates nutritional compliance automatically, and anticipates price swings with ML prediction.

  • Daily local wholesale market prices — with no manual data entry
  • Food cost calculator with waste/yield % per ingredient
  • Nutritional validation per portion (kcal, protein, carbs, fat)
  • Alerts when an ingredient crosses your variation threshold
  • Substitution suggestions with nutritional equivalence and savings in COP/MXN/CLP
  • Price prediction up to 30 days ahead with Prophet ML models
  • Profitability reports signed by the operator (PDF, ready to hand in)
  • Price comparison: wholesale market vs. your direct suppliers
Learn more about Óptimo →
Menu — Wednesday ✓ Meets standard
Orange chicken with rice
Gross cost (50 portions)$192,000
Cost / portion$3,840
Selling price$5,200
Kcal per portion682 kcal
Protein32g ✓
Net margin
26.2%
SFO Copilot AI active
How much does it cost to prepare 200 lunches today?
For 200 portions of today's menu, total cost is $856,000 (chicken went up 12% this week). I suggest swapping thigh for breast — you save $94,000 with the same protein profile.
How much chicken do I have in stock?
Main warehouse: 48 kg (expires in 2 days). Enough for today. You'll need to restock tomorrow — want me to generate the PO?
🤖 SFO — Smart Food Operations

The operational copilot for your service

An AI agent that knows your whole operation: inventory, menus, daily production and suppliers. It answers in natural language and acts within your operation's parameters.

  • Natural-language queries — no navigating menus or reports
  • Menu-cycle management with automatic validation of cycles and standards
  • Daily production tracking, day-close and automatic summary
  • Digital HACCP — temperatures, cleaning, food handlers
  • Automatic purchase orders with supplier benchmarking
  • Directly integrated with Óptimo and the Katú ecosystem
Learn more about SFO →
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Multi-site and multi-operator
Manage your whole network from a single dashboard. Compare food cost, compliance and KPIs across sites at a glance.
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Smart price alerts
Automatic notifications when an ingredient crosses your threshold. Act before your margin takes a hit.
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Reports ready to hand in
Signed PDFs with the operator's tax ID, logo and signature — for schools, client companies or contracting authorities.
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ML price prediction
Projects prices up to 30 days out with Prophet models trained on your wholesale market's real history.
🚀 Implementation

Up and running in less than a week

No complex migrations, no endless training sessions. We start with your current structure.

1
We connect your operation
We load your site structure, menus and ingredients. If you already use Katú, we integrate directly.
2
Óptimo takes over cost control
Every day we sync prices from your local wholesale market. Your menus recalculate themselves.
3
SFO assists your operation
Your team asks in natural language. SFO answers with real inventory, production and cost data.
4
You decide — with data
Better menus, lower food cost, guaranteed compliance. You focus on the food. We focus on the numbers.
🌎 Regional presence

Born in Colombia.
Built for all of Latam.

We started with what we know best: Colombia's institutional foodservice market, with its particularities around school feeding programs, Corabastos and regulatory compliance. That expertise is our edge — and it extends to every market in Latam.

Every country has its own reference wholesale market, its own nutritional standards and its own price dynamics. Akenda adapts: same platform, local context.

Tell us about your country →
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Colombia
Corabastos · Central Mayorista Medellín · Cavasa Cali · Mercado Bazurto Cartagena
Active since 2026
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Mexico
Central de Abastos CDMX · CEDA Ecatepec · Mercado de Abasto Guadalajara
⏳ 2027
🇨🇱
Chile
Lo Valledor · La Vega Central (Santiago)
⏳ 2027
🇵🇪
Peru
Gran Mercado Mayorista de Lima (GMML)
⏳ 2027 onward
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Costa Rica
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Argentina
CENADA (CR) · Mercado Central Buenos Aires (AR)
⏳ 2027 onward — Don't see your country? Let's talk.
🤝 Technology partner

Built for the Katú ecosystem

Katú connects schools, families and cafeterias with cashless payments, a school wallet and access control. Akenda closes the loop: it adds cost and operations intelligence on the operator's side.

Together we form the complete school feeding system — from the student's payment to the operator's purchasing decision.

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Katú handles the payment

Digital wallet, cashless payments and collections — Katú has it covered for students and parents.

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Akenda handles the operation

Food cost, menu cycles, inventory, HACCP and AI copilot — everything for the cafeteria operator.

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Native, real-time integration

The Akenda–Katú gateway syncs menus, orders and operational metrics between both platforms.

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If your cafeteria already uses Katú, Akenda integrates natively with no friction. If not yet, let's talk — we also operate fully independently.

Learn about Katú →

Óptimo and SFO run autonomously in any foodservice operation — school feeding, catering, corporate or institutional — with or without payment integration.

📅 Let's get started

Does your operation deserve better decisions?

Book a 30-minute demo. We'll show you how Óptimo calculates the real food cost of your menu this week — against your local wholesale market's current prices.

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