Why Rondough exists.

Rondough wasn't built in a board room. It was built on a prep line. For people who actually do this work.

From the line, not the office

We've spent years working in kitchens—line, prep, kitchen management. We've watched brilliant cooks get slowed down by broken systems. We've watched new hires struggle because tribal knowledge lived in people's heads, not recipes. We watched new prep cooks produce waste because the recipe didn't show batch yields and they didn't think about equipment limits.

All because our systems couldn't keep pace with reality.

We also have decades of software development experience. And we kept asking: why doesn't anyone build this? Why is there a KDS for plating, a POS for transactions, scheduling software, inventory management—but nothing built specifically for prep execution?

The answer: because to build it right, you have to understand prep. You have to know what a robot coupe is. You have to understand non-linear scaling. You have to respect the cognitive load of a new hire's first week.

And there's no money in it for the big tech companies. They sell to every industry. A prep execution system? That's kitchen-specific. That's not a board-room-friendly business model.

So we built it.

Built for people, not just metrics

Most kitchen software is built by people who've never worked in a kitchen. They see prep as a checkbox. A step in the process. Optimize the throughput, reduce the labor, extract more value.

But prep is where your flavor lives. It's where your consistency lives. It's where your food safety lives. It's where new hires learn if your kitchen is a place that respects their work or grinds them down.

Rondough is built for people who care about that. For KMs who want their new hires to succeed. For cooks who want clarity instead of chaos. For chefs who want consistency without micromanagement.

What we believe

  • Quiet tools over flashy software. Rondough doesn't demand your attention. It holds information so you don't have to.

  • Low friction. If a cook has to log in to three different systems or navigate 5 screens to start a task, they won't use it. Rondough gets out of the way.

  • Kitchen-native language. We don't talk about "stakeholders" or "synergizing workflows." We talk about batch yields, equipment capacity, shelf life, and what done looks like.

  • Reliability over cleverness. AI isn't here to replace judgment. It's here to catch mistakes and free you to lead.

  • Respect for the back of house. Kitchen people are smart, creative, and underrated. Rondough treats them that way.

Closing

Rondough is free for now. We're working with new kitchens to prove it works, refine it, and build the case studies that matter. If it helps your kitchen find its footing—fewer mistakes, faster onboarding, consistent flavor—that's enough for us.

The tool that saves you $500 a week and prevents the next $2,000 mistake? That sells itself.