1 · The chef uploads once
A build sheet, the full printed menu, or a photo taken on a phone. The app reads it and pulls out every dish: name, section, price, ingredients, allergens, garnish, marking, modifications and the story behind the plate.
One chef upload
How Paint the Plate works
One upload from the kitchen, one wine list from the front of house, and every page in the app fills itself in — for the guest, the floor, and the manager. Nothing is typed twice.
2 · The wine list goes in once
The GM or manager uploads the list. Every entry comes back with producer, vintage, region, grape, style, and both the glass and bottle price. Beer and zero-proof entries are captured too, for the team side.
3 · The maître d' pass pairs the menu
For every dish, using that dish's real ingredients, sauces and cooking, and only the wines actually poured in the house: a by-the-glass pour, a sommelier upsell with a real price, a red and a white alternative, sparkling, beer, a zero-proof option, one sentence on why it works, and one line a server can say at the table.
4 · Every page updates itself
The same knowledge, presented the way each person needs to see it.
One chef upload
Guest menu
Description, ingredients, allergens and the wine suggestion — the way a guest wants to read it.
Menu Book
The menu as printed, with prices, and a drop-down on every dish holding all of it.
Pre-Shift & Menu Talk
The same knowledge as study material for the floor, plus beer and zero-proof answers and the house wine list.
Manager's brief
Tonight's dishes to review, notes, and readable summaries of anything the manager attaches.
Wine list
The house list with glass and bottle pricing, searchable during service.
5 · In English and Spanish
Every dish, note and pairing can be read in either language, so the whole team works from the same information. The kitchen stays the single source of truth — change a dish once and it changes everywhere.