Kitchen management, built for chefs
Temperatures, cleaning, deliveries, recipes, stock and invoices — one app, on the phone already in your pocket. It works with no signal and syncs when you’re back.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans from £39 a month.
The same job, done twice
The fridge temperature, the delivery that came in warm, the date on the pack. It gets written on a clipboard, and then it gets written again — into a folder, a spreadsheet, or nowhere at all. YesChef is the second copy, done once.
Legible if you’re lucky. Filed if someone remembers. Gone if the folder walks.
Timestamped, searchable, and exportable for an inspection in one tap — on every plan, including the free one.
How it works
Set the kitchen up once. After that it runs every day, before service.
Name it, add your team, and set the checks your kitchen actually does.
Temperatures, cleaning, opening and closing — each one signed by whoever did it.
Line by line against the note, with the date off the pack recorded as you go.
Hand an inspector a clean record of what was done and when, on any plan.
What it looks like
Three screens from the same delivery. Not mock-ups — these are the app, photographed on a phone.
Pick the supplier or add a new one. It isn’t required to start — nobody is held at the door with a driver waiting — but you can’t sign off without it.
Use by or best before, because an inspector reads them differently. A pack with no date at all is one tap and a real answer — not a blank.
The delivery closes with a record of what arrived, what didn’t, and who checked it. That’s the document an inspector asks for.
What’s in it
Most kitchen apps do one or the other. The tier each feature belongs to is marked, so nothing here is a surprise at checkout.
Temperature logs, opening and closing checklists, cleaning checks and the allergen matrix — each entry timestamped and attributed. The whole record exports for an inspection, and export is never restricted by plan, because the records are yours.
FreeBuild and scale your recipes. Cost them against what you actually paid and watch GP move when a supplier puts a price up.
Free · costing on ProIngredient levels, pack sizes and prices, with barcodes bound to the products you actually buy — including the case and the inner.
ProTake the temperature, photograph the note, then work the list. Every line asks for the date on the pack and whether it’s a use-by or a best-before — because an inspector reads those two differently.
Free & ProPhotograph a supplier invoice and let it read the lines, so prices and stock update without typing.
Pro · unlimited on PremiumWalk-ins and cellars have no reception. The app writes to the phone first and syncs when it can, so a check is never lost for want of a bar of signal.
Every planWhy the record matters
We don’t publish an hours-saved number, because we can’t source one. These we can.
of people say they would not eat at a business rated 1 out of 5 for food hygiene.
Food Standards Agency, Food and You 2, Wave 8 (n = 4,966), published 2024of businesses in England say displaying their hygiene rating brought them more customers.
FSA / IFF Research, FHRS Audit of Display and Business Survey, 12 June 2025rise in formal food-hygiene enforcement against pre-COVID levels — 4,784 cases to 6,199.
FSA Board paper FSA-BC-260306, 6 March 2026Who it’s for
Independent restaurants, pubs, cafes, delis and small groups — the places with no head-office team to keep the folder up to date, where the person cooking is the person who has to produce the records.
We compare YesChef against four UK competitors, with every claim traced to their own website and dated. Then each page ends with the honest reasons you might choose them instead of us — written by us, and meant.
We can write that section because we know what we have built. And because a kitchen paying for the wrong app every month is no use to anybody, us included.
Temperature logs, checklists, cleaning records and the allergen matrix are free forever. Upgrade when the costing and the deliveries are worth it.
