Executive Chef & Founder
Ali Akroun
Executive Chef · Hospitality Consultant · Founder of AKROUN FOOD AI and NutriQuant Pro
Built by a chef, for the next generation of chefs.
Ali Akroun is an Executive Chef and hospitality consultant with more than 18 years in professional kitchens and hotel operations. He founded AKROUN FOOD AI and NutriQuant Pro to put everything he learned at the pass, in the storeroom and on the cost sheet into one place that any chef, home cook or food business can use.
- years in hospitality
- 18+
- products founded
- 2
- AI chef tools
- 21
- languages: English, Arabic, French
- 3

Ali Akroun
Executive Chef & Founder
“I built the tool I wished I had on my first day in a professional kitchen.”
The story
Eighteen years of service, distilled into one system.
Ali has spent his career inside the hospitality industry, rising to Executive Chef and advising hotels, restaurants and food businesses as a consultant. Along the way he trained and led kitchen teams, wrote and costed menus, ran purchasing and inventory, and lived the daily reality that every chef knows: recipes scattered across notebooks, stock counted by hand, and the food-cost percentage discovered too late to fix.
AKROUN FOOD AI is his answer. It is one connected food operating system, structured the way a working chef thinks, with an AI chef that follows real culinary discipline: proper method, honest nutrition, allergy safety that is never overridden, and a review gate before anything is saved. Every feature was designed, tested and refined by a chef with 18+ years of experience, not by a template.
He built it first for the youngest generation of chefs, so they can learn, create and organise with one of the best-structured AI chefs available and grow faster than he could. But it is not limited to chefs. Busy mums plan the week, cook from what is already in the fridge and keep nutrition in view. Restaurants, cafés, cloud kitchens and caterers manage recipes, inventory, purchasing, plate costs and margins from a single dashboard.
NutriQuant Pro, his second product, applies the same discipline to nutrition and quantities, so the numbers behind a dish are as reliable as the dish itself.
Who it is built for
One kitchen brain for chefs, families and food businesses.
Young chefs
Learn faster with an AI chef built by a chef: structured recipes, professional method, scaling, costing and a library you own from day one.
Busy families & home cooks
Plan the week on one grid, cook from what is in the pantry, track nutrition and order the missing items from your local stores in one tap.
Restaurants & food businesses
Run recipes, inventory, par levels, plate cost, menu margins, operating costs and shelf-life labels from one Chef Pro console.
Everything the platform manages
From the first idea to the last plate cost.
AKROUN AI Chef
21 tools that create, scale, cost and adapt recipes, with a save-or-discard review gate.
Recipe intelligence
Import from any URL, pasted text or a photo of a printed recipe. Nutrition and allergens computed automatically.
Snap a dish
Photograph a plate and get the full recipe back, with your own photo kept on it.
Meal planning
A week-at-a-glance grid with drag-and-drop, servings, swaps and daily calorie totals.
Pantry awareness
Know what you have, what is expiring and what to cook first.
Smart shopping & ordering
Auto-built lists, then shop all items at once on Instacart, Amazon, Carrefour, Noon, Talabat, Lulu and more, country-aware.
Nutrition tracking
Goals, macros, 7-day trends and CSV/JSON export.
Cooking mode
Hands-free step view with timers, built for a real kitchen.
Collections & cookbooks
Group recipes into books with a cover, contents page and print/PDF layout.
Inventory console
Chef Pro: items, barcode scanning, CSV/Excel import, stock counts and automatic reorder lists.
Plate cost & menu margins
Chef Pro: ingredient cost from your inventory, food-cost %, operating costs and net margin per dish.
Shelf-life labels
Chef Pro: storage type, use-by dates, allergens and a printable label per recipe.
Cook with a chef in your corner.
Start free, explore 260+ chef-written recipes, and upgrade to Chef Pro when your kitchen needs the numbers.