GALLEY FOUNDATIONS

Phoenix3 Collective

Self-Paced Narrated Course≈ 13 min · Foundation
System Overview · Orientation

What Galley is.
What it does.
How we use it.

Phoenix3's culinary operating system — across Restaura, Culinour, and Infuse. This is the 30,000-foot view. The goal is to orient you, not overwhelm you; your hands-on role training comes next.

FormatSelf-paced · narrated
AudienceAll new Galley users
RuntimeAbout 13 minutes
The Big Picture

What Galley is and why we use it

Galley is our single source of truth. Every recipe, ingredient, cost, yield, and portion lives in one place — and everything we plan, buy, cook, and report pulls from it. Enter it once, correctly, and it stays consistent everywhere downstream.

Recipes & Costing

Build recipes; cost rolls up automatically.

Menu Planning

Cycles, plans, and dated events.

Purchasing & Vendors

Pack sizes, costs, POs, and invoices.

Production & Labels

Production sheets and allergen labels.

Nutrition & Allergens

USDA nutrition and Top-9 allergens.

Inventory & Reporting

Counts, variance, Actual vs. Theoretical.

One instance · one shared recipe library used across the collective. Collections govern which recipes apply to each line of business.
The Mental Model

How data flows through Galley

Five levels, each built from the one below it. A clean foundation is what makes accurate costs, menus, and labels possible at every level above. Bad data at the bottom corrupts everything on top.

5

Operations

POs · production · invoices · counts · labels · reporting

4

Menus

What we serve — Cycles, Plans, Events

3

Recipes

What we cook — yield, procedure, sub-recipes; cost rolls up

2

Ingredients

The foundation — unit, allergens, USDA nutrition

1

Vendor Items

What we buy — pack size, cost, SKU

Getting Around

The four main areas

Recipes

The library — yields, procedures, allergens.

Menus

Cycles, Plans, and Events.

Inventory

Counts and on-hand by sub-location.

Reports

Production, purchasing, and variance.

Scoped to your location

What appears in Menus, Inventory, and Reports reflects the location you're assigned to.

View Only to start

New users begin read-only — scoped to their location and domain — until role training is confirmed.

Restaura, Culinour, and Infuse each appear as their own context within the same system.
The Library

Inside a recipe

What you'll find inside
  • Yield, serving size, and portion count
  • Step-by-step procedure
  • Full ingredient list, incl. linked sub-recipes
  • Allergens and dietary flags
  • Nutrition per serving (USDA-based)
  • Plate cost
  • IDDSI texture levels, where applicable
  • Category, tags, and photo
Costs & nutrition roll up

Every ingredient and linked sub-recipe contributes — plate cost and full nutritionals come straight from the recipe.

Allergens are built in

Allergen and dietary data set on each ingredient appears automatically on every recipe that uses it.

Only finalized recipes appear on active menus. If one's missing, check its status first.
Planning Service

Menus: Cycles, Plans, and Events

Three layers carry a menu from a reusable structure down to a specific dated service. Each is a more specific instance of the one before it.

Cycles

Repeating menu structures — the reusable template, published by culinary leadership.

Plans

A location's working version of a cycle for a given period.

Events

A specific dated service. Production, purchasing, and reporting all originate here.

Everything operational originates from an Event. If nothing's happening downstream, check that the event exists and is set up correctly.
Operations

The daily field loop

1

Order

PO in Galley

2

Receive

Verify dock-side

3

Submit

Email invoice

4

Match

Map line items

5

Approve

Costs & inventory update

Invoice scanning

System-of-record receiving; refreshes vendor costs in real time.

Inventory counts

One full count per period-end; two-person rule for full counts & alcohol.

Production

Sheets & labels from the event's recipes and yields.

Actual vs. Theoretical

Recipe-driven vs. counted usage. Big variance = a flag to route up.

How We Use It

Self-serve vs. centrally managed

Self-serve

  • Finding recipes; reading yields & allergens
  • Reading a location's plan
  • Opening and navigating events
  • Production & purchasing reports
  • Inventory and counts

Centrally managed

  • Recipe and ingredient data
  • Vendor items and pack sizes
  • Dietary flags and allergens
  • Menu cycles
  • User access and roles
Central governance is deliberate — it's what keeps data consistent across the entire collective.
Where Your Line Is

Self-serve vs. escalate

You can self-serve

  • Searching recipes
  • Reading plans
  • Navigating events
  • Running reports
  • Reviewing inventory

Escalate to leadership

  • Recipe data looks wrong
  • A missing ingredient
  • A plan won't load
  • A vendor item issue
  • Any access problem
ALLERGENS · DIETARY FLAGS · IDDSI

Route to the RD on site first, then the Director of Nutrition. When in doubt — flag it, don't edit it.

In Short

Galley is our single source of truth for recipe and ingredient data. Enter it once, correctly, and it stays right everywhere downstream.

NextYour role-specific training takes you hands-on
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QuestionsYour Culinary Admin
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