Resident meal planning — without the paper chaos
Weekly menu in the app, family login for relatives, aggregated invoicing to the home — clean and transparent.
Why care-home catering is hard today
You know these from running the home.
Menu on A4 paper on the wall
Relatives never see the menu. Changes are made with a marker pen. Anyone asking from outside has to call.
Resident data maintained twice
Resident lists live in Word, Excel or the home admin system. Changes and new admissions have to be updated everywhere.
Relatives want to be involved
Families ask daily: what did mum eat today, what's she ordering tomorrow? Phone calls eat into caregiver time, hours per week.
No overview for the home
Who chose the optional menu most last month? What's the catering volume per ward? Excel as far as the eye can see.
How Mega Meal simplifies home catering
Digital, clear, and built on the features that are live today.
Weekly menu in the app
The caterer maintains the weekly menu in the portal. Residents and relatives see it in the app, including order cut-offs and closures.
Family login for relatives
Daughter, son or grandchild see their relative's profile and can order or co-select. The family relation works across caterer boundaries.
10 reports with PDF/XLSX export
The caterer has 10 reports in the portal — order volume, revenue, optional-menu share — each exportable as PDF and XLSX. The home gets solid numbers.
Aggregated invoice to the home
If the home settles meals centrally, the caterer creates an aggregated invoice to the institution — resident contribution and subsidised share cleanly separated.
What Mega Meal actually does in your care home
Features from the caterer portal and the family app — live in production today.
Weekly menu maintained in the portal
The caterer attaches products to weekdays on a WeekPlan — done. Residents and relatives see the plan including images and options in the app.
Product variants and options
Soup small or large, main with or without sauce, dessert warm or cold — ProductOptionGroup with is_required. The app guides residents through the choice.
Wards as groups
Dementia ward, care 1, care 2 as separate groups per home. Each with its own closures, its own subsidy rates, its own choice filters.
Cross-caterer family login
Son is registered with his own caterer, mother lives in a home with a different caterer. Both linked via parent_eater_profile_id — son sees and orders for mother.
Four family roles
Owner and Co-Owner can invite, manage, and order. Eater only for themselves, Viewer read-only — for relatives who only want to see the menu.
Care staff order on behalf
Caregiver as co-owner on the resident profile — orders for the resident, who never has to tap a screen. The order still runs on the resident's account.
Auto-order with diet filter
Resident gets their preferred main automatically; the system filters allergens and diet conflicts, skips bridge days and public holidays.
Aggregated invoice to home or resident
BillingMethod::Invoice for central home billing, BillingMethod::Stripe for direct payment per resident — switchable per institution.
Eater statistics in the portal
Caterer sees per resident: order frequency, choice rate, favourite category, monthly revenue. Solid numbers for the home management to negotiate with.
Web app without installation
Relatives without iOS/Android can order from app.mega-meal.de in the browser — same features as the native app, works on any old laptop.
Cross-caterer family login
Mega Meal stores family relations across caterer boundaries. If a son is registered with his own caterer and his mother lives in a home with a different caterer, he still sees her in his family account.
GDPR: Mega Meal is multi-tenant, runs on servers in Germany (Hetzner) and is set up with a data-processing agreement.
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Common questions from care homes
How do residents get into the app?
Residents or relatives sign in to the Mega Meal app. The order can be placed by relatives, caregivers or by the resident — the resident never has to tap a screen themselves.
How does the aggregated invoice work?
The caterer can create one aggregated invoice per institution. Resident contribution and subsidy are separated. Status workflow draft → sent → paid (manual).
Can relatives order from elsewhere?
Yes. Via the family relation, a relative can see residents in the home from their own account and place orders, even if the caterer is a different one.
Is this GDPR-compliant?
Servers in Germany (Hetzner), multi-tenant architecture, data-processing agreement. Details on request.
Home catering digital — start today
In 20 minutes we'll show you how the weekly menu, family login and aggregated invoice fit together. The conversation is free and non-binding.