Food Cost Calculator

Calculate ingredient costs, recipe costs, and profit margins for your food business or home cooking.

Optimize Menu Profitability With Actionable Insights

This food cost calculator empowers chefs, restaurant owners, and food entrepreneurs to make data-driven pricing decisions. Visualize ingredient costs, forecast food cost percentages, and adjust batch sizes or markup strategies before launching your next menu item.

Understand Your Ingredient Costs

Track the true cost of every ingredient with automated unit conversions and wastage insights for precise recipe costing.

Price Recipes With Confidence

Experiment with markup strategies and instantly see cost per portion, profit per portion, and food cost percentage.

Optimize Operational Efficiency

Layer in labor, overhead, and batch multipliers to model real-world kitchen scenarios and maintain healthy margins.

1. Ingredient Breakdown

Add all ingredients with detailed cost information.
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2. Recipe-Level Summary

Configure recipe yield and pricing.
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3. Overhead & Labor Costs

Optional: Add operational costs for accurate pricing.

Includes electricity, gas, packaging, rent, etc.

4. Inventory & Batch Management

Scale recipes and account for wastage.

Make recipe 1x.