Food Cost Calculator

Built by a professional chef, Food Cost Calculator helps chefs, caterers, bakers, and food business operators calculate recipe costs, price menus accurately, protect margins, and plan profitable events.

Whether you’re costing a recipe, scaling production, quoting a catering job, or tracking ingredient prices, the app turns your kitchen numbers into practical business decisions.

🍳 Recipe Costing & Menu Pricing

Know exactly what every recipe and batch costs.

• Track ingredient prices and quantities
• Calculate total recipe and batch costs
• See cost per portion or serving
• Set your target food cost percentage
• Price menu items with confidence
• Scale recipes and batches for any production volume
• Automatically update costs when ingredient prices change

Stop guessing what to charge and understand your margins before you sell.

💰 Plan Events & Protect Your Profit

Build complete events using your saved recipes and batches.

• Calculate cost per guest
• Set your target food cost percentage
• See projected revenue and profit
• Avoid underpricing and margin loss
• Scale production based on guest count

Turn your event into practical working documents:

• Prep sheets
• Ingredient pull lists
• BEO-style breakdowns
• Client-ready invoices

👉 Build it once. Use it for pricing, preparation, and execution.

📦 Ingredients & Inventory

Keep your kitchen costs organized and current.

• Manage ingredients with real cost tracking
• Import ingredients in bulk using Excel
• Track inventory quantities and values
• Create monthly inventory snapshots
• Identify expensive ingredients and yield issues

📊 Make Smarter Business Decisions

See where your money is going and make informed pricing decisions.

• Compare actual and target food cost percentages
• Review recipe, batch, and portion costs
• Identify high-cost ingredients
• Understand margins and profitability
• Adjust pricing before costs become a problem

📂 Built for Real Kitchen Workflows

• Save and reuse recipes and batches
• Scale production for any volume
• Update ingredient prices on the fly
• Export and share cost sheets with staff or clients
• Work offline in real kitchen environments

💼 Built for Food Professionals

This is more than a basic food cost calculator. It’s a practical costing and operations system built for:

• Chefs
• Caterers
• Bakers
• Private chefs
• Meal prep businesses
• Restaurant operators
• Food entrepreneurs

Use it to price with confidence, stay consistent, protect your margins, and operate more efficiently.

🚀 Upgrade Options

• Remove ads for a cleaner experience
• Unlock Event Mode to plan, price, and execute events
• Go Pro to unlock the complete professional workflow

Take control of your food costs, price every item with confidence, and build a more profitable food business.

Recent changes:
• Change ingredient categories without deleting and recreating ingredients.
• Add the same ingredient or batch multiple times in the calculator.
• Improved recipe and batch editing, with more reliable quantity and cost updates and clearer save confirmations.
• Fixed a crash when screens resize.