For the people who
feed the children.

Queux is kitchen software for childcare centres. Bring your menus, room counts, recipes and daily records into one place.

See Queux with your menu Have a look inside

A morning in the kitchen

The numbers change.
Lunch can’t wait.

Start with who is coming, what they can eat and what is on the menu. Queux puts that information beside the work for today.

Made for the cook, with room for the people who step in.

Two-colour print of a simple lunch setting, with vegetables, bread and a cup. — A little room for the food. Illustration for Queux.

A look inside Queux

Follow a day in the kitchen.

Choose a part of the day to see how it works. These examples use fictional centre information.

STEP 1 · RECEIVE

Every room contributes to one confirmed count.

Enter room counts or import a reviewed CSV from your centre. Changes stay visible. A direct connection depends on the childcare provider and authorised access.

Kitchen outcome84 meals confirmed before prep.

Attendance snapshotUpdated 07:05

Nursery18Confirmed

Toddlers21Changed −1

Pre-kindy23Confirmed

Kindy18Confirmed

STEP 2 · PLAN

The approved weekly menu stays attached to the real service.

Build menu cycles, link reviewed recipes, record changes and publish a controlled family menu without maintaining a second version elsewhere.

Kitchen outcomeOne current menu for staff and families.

STEP 3 · PREPARE

Recipes scale to today without rewriting the master.

Scale the ingredients for the number of meals you are making. Keep the original recipe and record any changes made for today’s service.

Kitchen outcome84 serves, with every quantity ready.

Vegetable cottage pieStandard · 84 serves

SCALED × 2.8

Potato11.8 kg

Brown lentils4.2 kg

Carrot3.4 kg

Passata5.6 L

STEP 4 · SERVE

Dietary streams remain visible at the point of work.

Keep dietary counts and the meal alternatives together. Check individual child plans and the centre’s procedures before preparing and serving food.

Kitchen outcomeEvery stream accounted for at service.

Lunch service11:25 · ON TIME

84 meals

72
Standard5
Dairy-free3
Egg-free4
Staff

STEP 5 · RECORD

Leave a record the next person can follow.

Record the checks required by your centre’s Food Safety Plan. Keep the person, time and any later correction with the record, and pass unresolved work into handover.

Kitchen outcomeHandover is ready before the cook leaves.

Monday records8 OF 11 COMPLETE

Delivery temperatureComplete

Cool-room temperatureComplete

Lunch service checkComplete

Afternoon cleaningDue 15:00

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Before the week begins

Your recipes.
Your way of running the kitchen.

Keep the recipes your children know and the ones you want to try. Build a weekly menu, scale the ingredients and put together a shopping list from the food you plan to make.

When a delivery is missing something, record the proposed change and review the recipe and dietary information before updating the menu.

Menus, recipes and shopping

Plan the menu: Recipes, meal services and quantities for the week.
Prepare the order: A combined ingredient list, ready for your review.
Keep the changes: What changed, who reviewed it and why.

At the point of work

The paperwork belongs
with the kitchen.

Store your centre’s current Food Safety Plan. Use it to organise the temperature, cleaning, delivery and service records your team needs to keep.

Add a photograph when it helps explain an issue. Keep the follow-up with the original record so the next person has the context.

Food safety in Queux

Your approved plan and qualified centre review remain the authority. Queux helps organise the work and its records.

Something useful for tomorrow.

Practical reading and things to make, from the kitchen library.

Illustration of bread making ingredients and a loaf. — Generated activity illustration.

Cooking with the children

Bread, smoothies and sensory play, with ingredients, steps and checks for educators to review.

Stepping into the kitchen

A place to start with handover, allergies, cross-contamination, bottles and textures.

A menu for a special day

Book Week, celebrations and family-led cultural occasions. Adapt the ideas to your children and community.

“Can we have the recipe?”

Give families a smaller version of a favourite meal. Prepare a reviewed recipe card with household quantities and, if you choose, a photograph of the food from your kitchen.

Family menus and recipe cards

A few things to know.

Will it work with our childcare software?

You can start with manual room counts or a reviewed CSV export. A direct connection depends on your provider’s interface and authorised access; it is checked for your centre before being promised.

Read about connections and imports

Can we use our own recipes and Food Safety Plan?

Yes. Store your own recipes and current plan, then review the setup with the people responsible at your centre. Queux supports that process; it does not certify compliance or assess nutritional suitability on its own.

Where do we start?

Bring your current menu, the name of your childcare software and a rough outline of the kitchen day. You can explore the trial before choosing how Queux fits your centre.

View plans and trial details

Let’s start with your kitchen.

Your menu is a good place to begin.

See Queux with your menu

For the people who feed the children.

The numbers change.Lunch can’t wait.