Nursing homes & institutional catering
An AI assistant to generate balanced monthly menus, comply with Swiss nutritional standards, and preserve your head chef's expertise. Hosted 100% in Switzerland.
Planning a month of menus is a huge mental load — and knowledge that cannot be passed on
Your chef's expertise cannot be passed on.
The recipes live in a spreadsheet or a paper binder. The method, the substitutions, the touch — it is all in the chef's head. The day they leave, on holiday or for good, your kitchen loses years of expertise. And the quality of your menus depends solely on their experience.
Reconciling 4 audiences, special diets and the budget every month — alone.
Nursing-home residents (geriatric recommendations), staff, day care (paediatric age groups), home-delivered meals — each audience has its own nutritional constraints. Add to this individual diets (textures, allergens, diabetes), the budget, seasonality. A task no one can take on for you.
An AI service that has read your recipes, your audiences, your method
The tool proposes, the chef decides. Each suggestion is sourced and can be validated. The AI does not replace your chef — it frees up their time to focus on what really matters.
Level II — Your recipe book
The AI has read your recipes, your audiences, your method. It proposes, cites its sources; the chef decides. This is the level we recommend.
Apertus, hosted in Switzerland
Swiss model (EPFL + ETH Zurich + CSCS), run at 2itea in French-speaking Switzerland. Residents' personal data anonymised. nLPD compliant. No prompt leaves Switzerland.
Four service levels
I Chat to try, available now. II Assistant, available now. III Agents after capacity is commissioned (6 to 12 weeks). IV Dedicated, on quote.
On your premises: level IV only
The service runs at 2itea. An installation on your premises only happens at the Dedicated level, on request.
The interface, at a glance
Accessible from a browser, like ChatGPT — but dedicated to your kitchen. At level II, the AI relies on your recipe book and cites its sources. Apertus, hosted in French-speaking Switzerland.
Illustrative preview — conversations and suggestions are fictitious, for demonstration purposes.
A nursing home — typical case
A fictional example, to show what level II looks like in an institutional kitchen. This is not a client in production.
The context
Medico-social establishment in Vaud, 90 residents, central kitchen producing for four audiences: nursing-home residents, staff, an associated day care centre (several age groups) and home-delivered meals. Several years of internal recipes in Excel and expertise concentrated in the chef.
The deployment
Level II: the AI has read the internal recipe book and the chef's method. It proposes, cites its sources; the chef validates. Hosted at 2itea in French-speaking Switzerland — web interface, access for the chef and management. No residents' personal data is used.
The expected outcome
Reduced monthly planning time. Relevance of proposals across the 4 audiences. Optimisation of raw-material costs and waste. And above all: expertise now codified, transferable, no longer dependent on a single person.
Compatible with your obligations
The guarantees that make the platform usable in nursing homes and institutional catering with no compromise on confidentiality or nutritional safety.
Swiss nutritional standards — geriatric recommendations (nursing-home residents), paediatric (day care by age group), general public (staff and home-delivered meals). The assistant respects the ranges for each audience.
New Swiss data protection act (1 Sept. 2023). Residents' personal data anonymised. 100% hosting in French-speaking Switzerland. No dependency on foreign cloud providers.
Tier IV datacenter in French-speaking Switzerland, operated by 2itea. No foreign provider in the chain. Installation on your premises: level IV, on request.
Stemming from public Swiss academic research (EPFL + ETH Zurich + Swiss National Supercomputing Centre). Apertus 8B base model (Sept. 2025), open and auditable code and weights.
Each proposal cites its source — original recipe from the internal book, nutritional reference. The chef validates. The AI never replaces human expertise.
You are the sole owner of your data. Return or destruction on instruction, with certificate. No lock-in.
Five steps to move forward together
From the first demo to ongoing operations — the same path for monitoring and artificial intelligence.