About the Company
We have spent our careers building costing and kitchen management systems for the food service industry, and we continue to push the limits of what’s possible.
EGS Enggist & Grandjean Software (EGS) is one of the world’s leading providers of intelligent desktop and web-based software and solutions, enabling food service professionals to modernize recipe management, simplify tedious administrative tasks, operate profitably, and focus on what’s important – the food.
We understand the needs of every food service business and our dedicated team of experts continues to explore how we can do things better with technological innovation to solve your toughest challenges and redefine recipe and culinary management.
Today, EGS delivers three complementary platforms: CalcMenu for recipe management, food costing, and multi-site operations; Blaze for electronic shelf labels and digital buffet displays; and Nooko, our AI engine for intelligent recipe generation, standardization, and analysis.
Directors
MARC ENGGIST
EGS CO-FOUNDER &CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
I have spent my career building costing and kitchen management systems for the food service industry. The problem has never been that chefs don’t care about their numbers — it’s that the tools were never designed to make those numbers easy to track, share, and act on across an entire operation.
CalcMenu started as a recipe management tool. What it has become is the operational backbone for how serious food service businesses manage their costs, their menus, their staff, and their suppliers — consistently, at every site and every shift.
Whether you run a single restaurant or a multi-site catering operation, our goal is the same: give you the data you need to make confident decisions about your food and your profitability.
The complexity of running a professional kitchen hasn’t changed — but the technology available to manage it has. Our job is to make that technology invisible: present at every station, integrated into every workflow, requiring no extra effort from the people doing the actual cooking.
Today that means CalcMenu handling the recipe and costing layer, Blaze putting live data directly on buffet displays and shelf labels, and Nooko handling the cognitive work of recipe creation and adaptation — so the team can focus on the kitchen, not the keyboard.
EGS clients across 100+ countries don’t all operate the same way. What they share is a need for systems that work reliably at scale — multi-site, multi-language, multi-currency — and adapt to how each operation actually runs.
SANDRO GRANDJEAN
EGS CO-FOUNDER &CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Our History of Success
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The Early Years
In 1985, two entrepreneurs in Switzerland had a vision of revolutionizing recipe management using technology, and the first version of EGS CALCMENU was developed.
We started with an installed version to help professional chefs and other businesses in the food service industry manage their recipes.
After a few years, we established our Asia Office in 1996 and expanded our client base to over 100 countries.
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Smart Solutions
EGS CALCMENU Web and EGS F&B Control were introduced in 2004.
EGS CALCMENU Web is a web-based recipe management software that enables users to manage recipes online-this includes the ability to create, save and import recipes, view recipe ingredients, share recipes, determine nutritional information, scale recipes, sync recipes, plan menus, create menu plans, generate shopping lists, and much more - all with just a few clicks.
EGS F&B Control is a complete back-office system, designed for every food service business, to achieve inventory control, produce food cost variance reports, and increase overall profitability. The solution enables you to generate your inventory reports, carry out the inventory of items by storeroom or outlet and compare it to the ideal inventory based on the POS system to track down variances per item.
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Anytime, Anywhere Access
In 2010, Kiosk for CALCMENU was created.
Kiosk for CALCMENU, or the "Kiosk'', was included for free in EGS CALCMENU Web. The Kiosk is a light application that users can access online using their mobile devices or tablets. This makes it easy for chefs and other kitchen staff to quickly view, share and resize recipes, create shopping lists, and print food labels.
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Know your Foodprint
While recipe management, recipe costing, and recipe nutrition are all important considerations, sustainability is another crucial factor that has gained increasing focus. So in 2018, we partnered with Eaternity, the organization responsible for developing a solution to measure the environmental footprint of food products, or what we like to call "foodprint".
Just the like the way EGS CALCMENU Web enables you to automatically determine food costing or accomplish nutritional analysis, now you can establish more insights into your recipes' environmental impacts.
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Appetite for Data
We integrated Product Information Management (PIM) to streamline ingredient data across our supplier network, and launched the Advanced Data Management Service (ADMS) — a managed encoding service where our team of culinary experts standardizes recipe ingredients and procedures directly in EGS CALCMENU Web on the client's behalf.
With ADMS, recipe data is standardized, errors are minimized, and accurate recipe information in multiple languages is maintained for the kitchen team without requiring in-house data entry effort.
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AI & Connected Operations
Blaze was built to connect CalcMenu data directly to the point of service. Electronic shelf labels and digital buffet display boards update automatically from the recipe database — live pricing, allergen declarations, and nutritional data at the counter without manual re-entry.
Nooko is EGS's AI platform for intelligent recipe generation, standardization, and analysis. Chefs and culinary teams can generate new recipes from a brief, adapt existing ones for dietary requirements or portion sizes, and standardize procedures at scale — reducing the manual work behind the data that CalcMenu then manages and costs.
Together, CalcMenu, Blaze, and Nooko form an integrated stack for the modern food service operation: from back-office costing and compliance through to AI-assisted recipe development and live data at the buffet line.
Our Digital Tools
The Future of Modernization
At EGS, we create, build, and equip our clients with smart
technology to modernize their businesses.
We’ve grown from just a recipe software to providing holistic
business solutions for the food service industry.
AT THE CUTTING-EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Three platforms. One integrated stack.
CalcMenu handles recipe management, food costing, nutritional analysis, allergen tracking, and multi-site operations — from a single recipe to an enterprise chain's full menu portfolio.
eRecipe and eMenu let you publish recipes and menus online or generate QR codes for customers to browse — connecting the back-office recipe database directly to your public-facing menu.
The Kiosk for CALCMENU gives kitchen staff mobile access to the full recipe database — on tablets, phones, or touchscreens at the station. Quick Encode lets you build recipes fast with smart Intellisense suggestions. Voice recognition converts dictated recipes directly to text. Food labels print directly from the recipe, with allergens and nutritional data included.
The
Menu Plan View**
displays meal plans with real-time content across screens —
giving planning teams the full picture at a glance. Interactive
views cover allergens, nutrients, pricing, photos, weather,
sustainability metrics (Eaternity “foodprint”), and menu plan
rules.
*Available in English, French, and German. Other languages can
be implemented upon request.
**Free module with optional paid features including Weather,
Health & Sustainability, and Menu Plan Rules.
THE DIGITAL CHANGE
EGS has been building food service software for decades — from the first installed recipe management tools to a cloud platform that now connects kitchens, buffet displays, and AI recipe generation across more than 100 countries. The product has changed. The focus hasn't: give food service professionals the data they need to run their operations confidently, at scale, and profitably.
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