Know exactly how many plates to cook — veg and non-veg — every meal.
Stay works out the per-meal cook count from who's actually staying: breakfast, lunch and dinner, split veg and non-veg, for today and the next few days. Mark residents away and their meals drop off automatically, so you buy and cook for the real headcount.
Per-meal veg/non-veg counts · Meal-leave planner · From ₹499/mo per hostel
- Anjali R.Bed 4A · UPI · May rent+₹8,500
- Kiran S.Bed 7B · Cash · May rent+₹7,000
- Ravi P.Bed 11C · UPI · Partial+₹4,000
The honest problem: Your cook asks the same question every morning: how many today? Guess high and the extra food goes in the bin — vegetables, gas and money wasted daily. Guess low and a dozen tenants find an empty pot and complain. And nobody has a clean list of who's gone home for the weekend or is skipping dinner tonight, so the number is always a rough shout down the corridor.
Three steps from sign-up to live recovery.
- 1
Set food preference at move-in
When a resident moves in, mark them veg or non-veg. It's optional and never guessed — anyone unset simply shows separately until you set it, which nudges you to keep the list complete.
- 2
Mark who's away
When someone travels or skips meals, mark them away for those dates and the specific meals. It takes seconds from the dashboard or the tenant's profile — no tenant app needed.
- 3
Cook to the count
The dashboard shows a per-meal grid — breakfast, lunch, dinner across veg and non-veg — for today and the next three days, counting only residents who are in and eating. Your cook works to real numbers.
Per-meal cook counts
A clean grid of breakfast, lunch and dinner, each split into veg and non-veg heads, so the kitchen knows precisely how much to prepare for every meal.
Counts only who's eating
Residents on leave for a given date and meal are subtracted automatically, so the count is who's actually at the table — not who's on the rent roll.
Meal-leave planner
Mark a resident away for a date range and the meals they'll miss. Weekend trips and home visits stop being a corridor headcount and become a number you can trust.
Today plus the next days
See today and the next three days at once, so you can buy provisions ahead knowing Sunday's dinner is light because half the hostel is travelling.
Veg / non-veg at a glance
Preferences set at move-in drive the split. Residents with no preference yet sit in a footer you can't split — a gentle push to complete everyone's choice.
Honest scope: planning, not billing
This is a cook-count planner that stops waste — not a per-meal mess-billing system. Charging each resident for the meals they ate is on the roadmap, and we say so plainly.
What it costs
Food planning is part of the one plan — one simple per-hostel price from ₹499/month (about 20% off on annual), with beds above your pack at ₹5 each and no kitchen add-on. It uses the same resident list you already keep for rent, so there's nothing extra to set up or pay for.
Common questions.
No — and we're precise about it. This is cook-count planning: it tells your kitchen how many veg and non-veg plates to make each meal so you stop wasting food. Per-meal mess-BILLING — charging each resident only for what they ate — is on the roadmap, not live. For now, fold a fixed mess charge into rent or track mess spend as an expense.
Stop chasing. Start recovering.
14 days, full features, ₹50 wallet credit, no card.