Meal Prep Kitchen Staff Scheduling for Prep, Cook, Pack and Delivery Days

A meal prep staff scheduling app plans the week around the kitchen's cycle: prep after the cut-off, a cook day, a pack day and delivery routes. Describe your cycle and team to Mythex and it builds a rota that sizes shifts from order volume, tracks food hygiene training and assigns drivers, on a real database staff can check on their phones.

Who it's for

Meal prep services where the same small team preps, cooks, packs and delivers in one exhausting day, where shifts are agreed in a group chat, and where January volume arrives before the extra hands do.

What you can build

Prep, cook and pack as separate shifts
Staff numbers sized from confirmed orders
Food hygiene training with expiry dates
Drivers assigned to routes and delivery days
Allergen checker named on every pack shift
Extra staff planned for January and pre-summer

Split the long day

Running prep, cooking, portioning, labelling and packing as one long shift with the same tired people is when mistakes happen: a wrong label, a missed allergen, a box short. Plan them as separate shifts, ideally on different days or with different people. Ask Mythex to build the week from your cycle, for example prep Friday, cook Saturday, pack Sunday, deliver Sunday evening and Monday.

Separate shifts per stage
Different people where possible
Cycle repeated every week

Staff from the order count

After the cut-off, confirmed orders tell you how many meals are coming. Set how many meals one person can portion or pack per hour, and the rota suggests how many people each shift needs. A 300-meal week and a 600-meal week should not be staffed the same, and January will show you why.

Training and responsibility

Record food hygiene and allergen training per person with expiry dates, and warn when a shift has nobody with valid training. Name one person on every pack shift as the allergen checker, who signs off flagged orders before they are sealed. The rules on training where you trade are yours to meet; the app keeps the record.

Training expiry per person
Warning for untrained shifts
Named allergen checker per pack shift

Drivers and routes

Keep each driver on a consistent route so they learn the addresses and access notes. Assign routes by delivery day and window, and if a driver is off, the rota shows who else knows that route. Delivery lists come from the booking system for each route.

A prompt to start from

Create a staff scheduling app for my meal prep kitchen. The week runs prep on Friday, cook on Saturday, pack on Sunday and deliveries on Sunday evening and Monday. Size each shift from confirmed meals using 60 meals per person per hour for packing. Track food hygiene and allergen training expiry and warn if a shift has nobody trained. Name an allergen checker on every pack shift, and assign drivers to fixed routes.

Questions

Can the rota adjust to how many orders we have?

Yes. After the cut-off, set how many meals a person handles per hour and the rota suggests staff numbers per shift.

Can it track food hygiene certificates?

Yes. Store each person's training with an expiry date, and get a warning when a shift has nobody with valid training.

Can staff swap shifts?

Yes. Ask for swap requests that a manager approves. The rota checks training and hours before the swap goes through.

Do I need to code?

No. You describe your weekly cycle and team and Mythex builds the rota.

What does it cost?

The Free plan needs no card and gives daily credits to build and publish. Pro is $25/month and adds a custom domain, code editing and export.

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