$0.74
For Australian early childhood education and care
Plan the week. Prove it’s safe.
Menu planning, allergen safety and food costing, built for the person doing it — the centre cook, on an iPad propped on a stainless bench.
iPad. One subscription per service, however many devices. Every state and territory.
Week 34 · 18–22 August
Draft · edited 9:12am
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning | Fruit platter & yoghurt |
Wholemeal raisin toast $0.51 |
Corn & zucchini fritters $0.88 |
Banana bread $0.62 |
Pikelets & berries $0.66 |
| Lunch | Beef & vegetable pasta bake $1.94 |
Lentil & pumpkin dahl, rice $1.32 |
Satay chicken & noodles
peanut $2.10 |
Baked fish, potato, greens $2.28 |
Chicken & vegetable rice $1.88 |
| Afternoon | Cheese & cucumber crackers $0.58 |
Rice pudding, stewed apple $0.64 |
Hummus & veggie sticks $0.70 |
Fruit & yoghurt cups $0.72 |
Wholegrain toast fingers $0.49 |
Allergy rail · 7 of 41 children
TRTomas R. 2 · peanut, tree nut (anaphylaxis)
HDHana D. 3 · sesame (anaphylaxis)
AMAva M. 3 · egg
SKSam K. 3 · gluten — coeliac
BWBella W. 2 · dairy
How it works
The laminated card above the bench, made live.
Every child with a dietary requirement sits in a strip under the menu. It stays quiet until you place something one of them can’t eat — then it flares, names the child, and offers the swap in the same breath.
One
Plan the week
Copy last week, adjust what changed. Cost per child per day updates as you go, so you find out you’re over budget while you can still do something about it.
Two
A conflict always comes with a fix
Swap the ingredient, or record a separate plate. Either way it’s a decision that reaches the kitchen sheet — never a dismiss button. A week with an unresolved conflict cannot be published.
Three
6:30am, one screen
Kitchen Today shows one day in type you can read at arm’s length with wet hands. Prep times, serve counts, and who needs their own plate — where it can’t be missed.
Evidence Pack
The folder you hand an assessor, generated.
A dated PDF: the menu as planned, the allergen matrix of every child against every day of the week, and a timestamped record of every change and who made it. Included at every price level, because it’s the reason you’d subscribe.
Allergen matrix by child
Children down, weekdays across. A tick, a recorded alternate plate, or a day off — for every child, every day.
Change history
Every edit, timestamped. The one part of a compliance record you cannot reconstruct after the fact.
Menu as served
Publishing locks the week. Editing it afterwards puts it back to draft — the record can’t quietly drift from what parents were given.
Where we’re up to
Nutrition coverage against your state’s guideline is in the app and works, for all eight states and territories, with every figure cited on the page. It is marked as provisional until an Accredited Practising Dietitian has signed off the recipe library it measures. We’d rather tell you that than have you find out in front of an assessor.
Every state and territory
Your state’s numbers, not somebody else’s.
There is no national standard for what a service has to put on the menu. Each state publishes its own figures and they differ enough to change the verdict — the same week can pass in one state and fail in another. Servery carries all of them and prints which one it used.
From the publisher
NSW, Victoria, Queensland
Figures taken from the guideline documents themselves. New South Wales and Victoria also carry their variety and frequency rules — red meat, fish, wholegrain, vegetarian meals.
From a comparison
ACT, NT, SA, Tasmania
Those guidelines sit behind member access or are no longer government-endorsed, so their figures come from a peer-reviewed comparison — and the pack says so on its face, rather than in a footnote.
No state guideline
Western Australia
WA doesn’t publish one for early childhood. Servery assesses against half the Australian Dietary Guidelines and states plainly that’s what it has done.
Pricing
One price per service. However many iPads.
Charging per device would price out the second iPad — and the second iPad is the point: the cook plans on one, the director exports the pack from the other.
$49
per service, per month
or $490 a year
or $490 a year
- Every feature, including the Evidence Pack. No higher tier.
- Unlimited iPads, unlimited staff, unlimited children.
- Under a dollar per child per month at 60 places.
- Multi-site providers: $39 per service per month from three services.
- Cancel whenever. Your data exports with you.
Early access
We’re looking for a handful of Queensland services.
Servery is being trialled with a small number of centres on the Sunshine Coast and in Wide Bay before it goes on the App Store. Free during the trial, and we want the cook’s opinion more than the director’s.