When people think about food, they often think about the food — the techniques, plating, tastes, textures, instinct, and creativity. What most don’t see are all the other things: the menu development, grocery lists, back-and-forth messages, invoicing, booking flow, planning, prepping, organizing — all the work you put in to make the experience itself possible.

Those other things? You just “deal with it".

You're either still using pen & pad or you're using multiple online tools that were built for suits, not aprons. You click through confusing dashboards, copy and paste between a dozen apps, try to keep track of all your spreadsheets — and when something slips through the cracks, you feel stupid for not being organized, or “not tech-savvy" enough, as if you're the problem — not the tools or resources that currently exist. We say bullshit.

Sous is our answer.

Not just a better tool — a culinary specific business system. Something built for you as an independent chef. Made to match the way you think and work — and the way modern indie chef businesses operate.

For the chefs who are doing it all — cooking, emailing, prospecting, booking, following up with clients — We're building Sous for you. Not with corporate POS systems in mind, but with real, indie chefs at the center of every feature.

Sous doesn’t just help you manage your business — it’s here to support you. To stand by your side, stay out of your way, and step up when you need it most.

This isn’t about growth at all costs. It’s about momentum, sustainability, and flow. It’s not dashboards and data for the sake of it — it’s tools and control that feels good.

You’re not here to play by the rules, you're here to write new ones — and so are we.

Welcome to Sous. Welcome to a new era of indie chefs.