⭐ Óptimo by Akenda

Your food cost, connected to your city's wholesale market

Every morning, real market prices flow into your platform on their own. Your recipes recalculate, your margins update, and you decide with data — not the price from three weeks ago.

No credit card · Demo with data from your type of operation

Menu — Chicken with rice · 50 portions ✓ Profitable
Chicken breast (30% waste)$84,500
White rice$31,200
Vegetables and seasoning$28,900
Cost / portion$3,840
Selling price$5,200
Protein per portion32g ✓
Net margin today
26.2%
170+
products with updated prices every day
30
days of ML-powered price prediction
0
manual price entries
100%
of your recipes with real, waste-adjusted cost
The problem

Planning menus blind costs you margin every single day

Chicken can jump 15% in a week. If you're costing with month-old prices, your real margin isn't what you think — and you find out after you've already closed the month in the red.

Before Óptimo

Spreadsheets, calls to suppliers, and stale prices

Manual costings nobody updates, menus planned without knowing whether ingredients went up, and reports that take days to put together. Every decision arrives late.

IngredientYour spreadsheetMarket todayΔ
Chicken breast$11,800/kg$13,600/kg+15.3%
Potato$2,400/kg$2,950/kg+22.9%
Tomato$3,800/kg$3,100/kg−18.4%
White rice$4,200/kg$4,260/kg+1.4%
What Óptimo does

From market prices to your decision, no steps in between

Automatic prices

The wholesale market, inside your platform every morning

Your wholesale market's daily bulletins process themselves. No typing, no scanning, no paying someone to copy prices.

  • Over 170 products with full price history
  • Price series by quality grade
  • Comparison against what you pay your direct suppliers
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Today's bulletin processed174 products updated · 6:58 a.m.
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Potato +22.9% this weekAffects 8 active menus in your cycle
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"Special tray" menu at critical marginMargin dropped from 24% to 9% — see substitutes
Suggested substituteSaves $94,000
Chicken thigh → Breast−11%
Proteinequivalent ✓
Calories per portion−38 kcal
Recipe feasibilityHigh
Real food cost + substitutions

Waste-adjusted cost, up-to-date margin, and a plan B for every spike

Óptimo calculates the actual gross quantity you buy (not just the net amount on the plate) and, when an ingredient's price spikes, suggests substitutes with nutritional equivalence and estimated savings.

  • Waste/yield % per ingredient — kitchen cost, not paper cost
  • Margin, break-even point and cost per portion, always current
  • Profitability comparison of the same menu across dates
Nutrition and compliance

Nutritional compliance validated automatically

Every menu shows its nutritional contribution per portion — calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat and fiber — validated against your program's standards by age group. Reports come out as PDFs with logo and signatures, ready for the contracting authority.

  • Validation by age group (preschool, elementary, secondary)
  • Digital HACCP: temperatures, cleaning and food handlers
  • Signed reports for schools, companies or oversight audits
Nutritional profile · portion✓ Meets elementary standard
Energy682 kcal
Protein32g ✓
Carbohydrates78g
Fat21g
Fiber9g
Prediction · Chicken breastUpward trend
Today$13,600/kg
7-day projection$14,100/kg
30-day projection$15,400/kg
RecommendationBuy this week
Prediction and inventory

Buy before the spike, not after

Machine learning models trained on your market's real price history project prices up to 30 days out. With per-warehouse inventory, cost centers and integrated purchase orders, buying stops being guesswork.

  • Projections with a confidence range per ingredient
  • Multi-warehouse inventory with transfers between sites
  • Purchase orders with supplier vs. market benchmarking
How it works

Three steps, zero friction

01

Load your recipes once

Ingredients, net quantities and waste %. Our team walks you through the initial load so you start with your full menu cycle ready.

02

Prices arrive on their own

Every morning the wholesale bulletin is processed automatically and all your recipes recalculate with the day's current prices.

03

Decide with traffic lights

Green, yellow or red on every scheduled menu. Alerts when something spikes, suggested substitutes, and reports ready to hand in.

Who it's for

Built for operations that serve at scale

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School feeding operators

Menu cycles with nutritional validation, digital HACCP and compliance reports for oversight audits.

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Corporate catering

Up-to-date margin per contract, multi-site management and profitability comparison across clients.

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Hospital foodservice

Nutritional control by diet type, supply traceability and cost per service.

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Industrial canteens

High volume, scheduled purchasing with price prediction and supplier benchmarking.

Frequently asked questions

What every operator asks us

Where do Óptimo's prices come from?

From the official daily bulletin of your city's wholesale market — Corabastos in Bogotá, and progressively other wholesale markets across Latam. Óptimo processes them automatically every morning, with nothing for you to type in.

What is food cost calculation with waste factors?

Waste is what's lost when preparing an ingredient (bone, skin, peel). Óptimo calculates the actual gross quantity you need to buy from the net quantity that reaches the plate, so your cost reflects kitchen reality, not paper theory.

Does it work for school feeding operators in Colombia?

Yes. Óptimo validates the nutritional contribution per portion against age-group standards and generates the compliance reports required by contracting authorities.

Can I manage multiple sites with different prices?

Yes. Each cafeteria can have its own selling price per menu, its own warehouse inventory and permissions, while central operations compares KPIs across the whole network.

How do I try Óptimo?

Request a free demo at demo.akenda.co or email contacto@akenda.co. We'll show you the platform with data from your type of operation.

🤖 Better together

What if you could just ask your operation?

SFO is the AI copilot that knows your menus, your inventory and your costs in Óptimo — and answers in natural language. "How much does it cost to prepare 200 lunches today?" gets an answer in seconds.

Learn about SFO →

Stop costing menus blind

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