diff --git a/app/lib/main.dart b/app/lib/main.dart
index e5967dd..85accc0 100644
--- a/app/lib/main.dart
+++ b/app/lib/main.dart
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/budget_history_service.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/foodbank_service.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/frame_stats.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/kuchnia_credential_service.dart';
+import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/kuchnia_queue.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/log_storage_service.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/meal_schedule_service.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/notification_service.dart';
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ Future<void> main() async {
   await MealScheduleService.init();
   await FoodBankService.init();
   await KuchniaCredentialService.init();
+  await KuchniaQueueService.init();
   final notifications = await NotificationService.init();
   // Deliberately *not* awaited before the first frame: the browser's
   // `Notification.requestPermission()` does not complete until the user
diff --git a/app/lib/services/kuchnia_queue.dart b/app/lib/services/kuchnia_queue.dart
index be15cc0..197212b 100644
--- a/app/lib/services/kuchnia_queue.dart
+++ b/app/lib/services/kuchnia_queue.dart
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ library;
 
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/models/kuchnia_dish.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/document_store.dart';
+import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/document_store_factory.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/kuchnia_import.dart';
 import 'package:diet_guard_app/services/kuchnia_orders.dart' show isoDay;
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
@@ -60,7 +61,24 @@ class KuchniaQueueService {
   /// How many dishes are still waiting to be logged.
   static int get remaining => _instance?._pending.length ?? 0;
 
-  /// Initialises from [store], for tests and for [init].
+  /// Initialises the singleton against the platform document store.
+  ///
+  /// Without this the queue silently no-ops on a real device: every entry
+  /// point checks [isInitialized] first, so a missing call reads as "no
+  /// delivery" rather than as an error.
+  static Future<KuchniaQueueService> init() async {
+    if (_instance != null) return _instance!;
+    // Resolving the platform store is a plugin call, not reachable from
+    // `flutter test`.
+    // coverage:ignore-start
+    final service = KuchniaQueueService._(await openDocumentStore());
+    // coverage:ignore-end
+    await service._load();
+    _instance = service;
+    return service;
+  }
+
+  /// Initialises from [store], for tests.
   @visibleForTesting
   static Future<KuchniaQueueService> initForTesting(DocumentStore store) async {
     final service = KuchniaQueueService._(store);
diff --git a/app/pubspec.yaml b/app/pubspec.yaml
index 5a58530..89fd722 100644
--- a/app/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/app/pubspec.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: diet_guard_app
 description: "Companion phone app for diet_guard: log meals on the go."
 publish_to: 'none'
 
-version: 1.0.64+1
+version: 1.0.65+1
 
 environment:
   sdk: ^3.12.2
diff --git a/app/test/repo_invariants_test.dart b/app/test/repo_invariants_test.dart
index e0c40e7..b025eb0 100644
--- a/app/test/repo_invariants_test.dart
+++ b/app/test/repo_invariants_test.dart
@@ -125,6 +125,28 @@ void main() {
     });
   });
 
+  group('singletons that silently no-op are initialised at startup', () {
+    // Every catering entry point checks `isInitialized` first and returns
+    // quietly when it is false, so a missing `init()` does not throw -- it
+    // reads as "no delivery" and "no credential" forever. That is invisible in
+    // widget tests, which initialise these directly, and was caught only by
+    // grepping main.dart before a phone deploy.
+    test('main.dart initialises the catering services', () {
+      final source = File('${_appDir.path}/lib/main.dart').readAsStringSync();
+      for (final call in [
+        'KuchniaCredentialService.init()',
+        'KuchniaQueueService.init()',
+      ]) {
+        expect(
+          source.contains(call),
+          isTrue,
+          reason: '$call is missing from main(). The feature will silently do '
+              'nothing on a real device while every test still passes.',
+        );
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
   group('the desktop wrapper origin is fixed', () {
     // IndexedDB is keyed by origin and lives in the Chrome profile. Changing
     // either the port or the --user-data-dir hides the entire local food log