One system for recipe costing, menu pricing, inventory, and event workflow
Food Cost Calculator helps chefs, caterers, and food businesses cost recipes, price menus, manage ingredients, track inventory, and plan events from one connected system.
Start free on mobile. Upgrade to Web Access when you need a larger workspace for deeper planning and review.
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4.6-star Android app with 9K+ downloads — Used by chefs, caterers, and food operators to cost recipes, price events, and manage food costs.
Built for real kitchen workflow
One workspace for the work that usually gets scattered
The work behind pricing, prep, and event execution often gets spread across separate tools. Food Cost Calculator helps bring it together so you can save time, move faster, and make decisions with more confidence.
Event planning and execution
Build events from saved recipes and batches, estimate totals more accurately, and generate the documents needed to support execution.
Recipe costing and menu pricing
Build recipes, test menu pricing, compare against your target food cost, and catch pricing issues before they affect your margins.
Inventory visibility and tracking
Track ingredient prices, usage, and movement with more clarity so you can see what is changing and where attention is needed.
Everything in one system
From recipe costing and menu pricing to inventory tracking, event planning, and operational review, everything works together in one connected system.
Recipe costing and menu pricing
Build recipes, compare against target food cost, and spot items that are over target, underpriced, or worth repricing.
Inventory movement and visibility
Track inventory counts, value, and movement by item, category, and storage area so you can see what is changing over time.
Catering event pricing and BEO documents
Plan events with better control over cost, pricing, and execution, then generate BEOs, invoices, scaled recipes, and order guides in one place.
Food cost percentage and margin planning
Test pricing, yield, waste, and portion changes before committing so you can make better decisions with real numbers.
Operational insights
Get a quick read on what needs attention across your kitchen. Surface recipe cost pressure, batch margin risk, and inventory movement so you know what to review next.
Templates and tools
Use kitchen-ready templates and supporting tools for prep, ordering, waste tracking, yield testing, and recurring admin work.
Choose how you want to use Food Cost Calculator
Start free on mobile, or use Web Access for deeper planning, faster review, and a more efficient kitchen workflow.
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Free Mobile App
Start free on Android to cost recipes, price menu items, manage ingredients, and plan food work on the go. Upgrade to Web Access when you need more room for deeper review.
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FOR DEEPER WORKFLOW
Web Access
Use Food Cost Calculator on web when you want more room, more efficiency, and a more interactive workspace for pricing, inventory, event planning, and operational review.
$19.95/month