FreshCrate — weekly meal plan kitchen

We run a prepared meal production kitchen: we cook and deliver meal plans in weekly cycles, and we need a full-featured web application to sell and manage it all. The product foundation is a rotating weekly menu: every Thursday a set of dishes is published for the upcoming week, drawn from a recipe library where each recipe lists ingredients, allergens, macro values and a photo. Clients open a meal plan builder, filter dishes by diet (vegan, keto, gluten-free, high-protein, low-carb) and by excluded allergens, then assemble a box of six, eight or twelve portions. A subscription engine works above the builder: weekly, bi-weekly and monthly plans that can be skipped for one delivery or paused for several weeks without losing your price tier — the debit cursor moves forward on its own. Delivery is organized by zones: each postal district is tied to a courier day and cutoff time, so only slots the kitchen can actually meet are shown during checkout. Each dish displays a clear nutrition label (calories, protein, fat, carbs, fiber, sodium) calculated from the ingredient table, and portion weight. After delivery, the client rates each dish one to five stars, leaves a short review and can repeat any past box with one click — it clones to the nearest open week. The scope includes a storefront for clients, a personal account to manage subscriptions and addresses, an admin menu planning interface, order packing and courier route sheets, recurring charges via Stripe with dunning for unpaid invoices, and email and SMS reminders before each cutoff. Result: responsive frontend, documented REST API, database schema, demo menu, deployment scripts and administrator guide.