Run food costing, pricing, inventory, menus, and events from one connected workspace
Chef’s Food Cost Calculator helps food businesses cost recipes, price menus, track ingredients, review inventory, analyze menu performance, and plan events without spreading the work across disconnected spreadsheets.
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 10K+ downloads — Used by chefs, caterers, and food operators to cost recipes, price events, and manage food costs.
New: Chrome Extension for supplier Ingredients
Use the Chef’s Food Cost Calculator Chrome extension to capture product details from supplier pages while you browse or place orders. Review the draft, save it to your ingredient library, and keep recipes, menus, events, and inventory closer to current supplier costs without entering every item by hand.
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A quick look at the work behind the menu
See how Chef’s Food Cost Calculator connects food cost, recipes, menus, inventory, and kitchen workflows.
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
Want the full picture? See how Chef’s food cost calculator connects ingredients, recipes, menus inventory, events, and documents.
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.
Menu engineering and profit opportunities
Analyze item sales, food cost, sell price, profit, and performance signals so you can see what to protect, promote, reprice, rework, or remove.
Use the mobile app for quick work. Use Web Access for the full workspace.
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 mobile. Use the full workspace when you need ingredient imports, recipe costing, Menu Engineering, inventory periods, event pricing, and kitchen documents.
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FOR DEEPER WORKFLOW
Web Access
The full workspace for recipe costing, menu pricing, inventory review, Menu Engineering, event planning, documents, and operational insights.
$19.95/month
Includes mobile Pro at no extra cost.