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Know exactly what every dish costs to make. Build smarter menus, protect your margins, and run a more profitable kitchen — for free.
FoodCostAI gives you the tools to understand, control, and improve the profitability of every dish you serve.
Build and manage all your recipes in one place. Add ingredients, set quantities, and get instant cost breakdowns for every dish on your menu.
See your profit margins update instantly as ingredient costs change. Know exactly what each dish is earning you before it leaves the kitchen.
Keep your costs current without lifting a finger. Supplier prices update automatically so your margin calculations are always accurate.
Identify your star dishes and problem items with data-driven insights. Optimise your menu layout for maximum profitability.
Detailed ingredient-by-ingredient cost analysis for every recipe. Understand exactly where your money is going.
Scale any recipe up or down instantly. Perfect for catering, batch cooking, or adapting dishes for different service sizes.
Generate professional cost reports and export to PDF or CSV. Share insights with your team or use for business planning.
Multiple users can work on recipes simultaneously. Keep your whole kitchen team aligned on costs and margins.
Stop guessing what your dishes cost. FoodCostAI turns recipe costing from a tedious manual process into a powerful business tool.
"FoodCostAI completely changed how we think about our menu. We discovered two dishes that were actually losing us money — and within a week of adjusting prices, our margins improved by 8%. It's the kind of tool every chef should be using, and it's free."
Sarah Chen
Head Chef, The Green Kitchen
FoodCostAI is a free recipe costing tool from Kitchen OS. You build your recipes, enter your ingredient costs, and it tells you exactly what each dish costs to make and what margin you're actually earning on it — not what you assume you're earning.
Sign up, add your recipes, enter your ingredient costs. FoodCostAI calculates total cost per dish and your profit margin based on whatever selling price you set. Change an ingredient cost and the margin updates instantly. No spreadsheets, no waiting until month-end to find out you've been losing money on your bestseller.
Yes. No credit card, no hidden fees, no "free trial" that quietly turns into a bill. Sign up and start costing recipes in minutes. Kitchen OS built it this way because cash flow in hospitality is tight enough without another subscription before you've seen any value.
Your recipes and a rough idea of your ingredient costs. Start with one dish if that's easier, and build out from there.
It's how you spot which dishes are actually making you money and which ones are quietly draining you. FoodCostAI flags your stars, your plodders, and your problem items so you can fix pricing or portioning before it costs you another month.
Yes — scale any recipe up or down instantly. Useful for batch cooking, catering jobs, tasting menus, or multi-site consistency.
Yes. Export cost reports as PDF or CSV. Everyone works off the same numbers — you, your GM, your accountant, head office.
Yes. Multiple team members can work on recipes at the same time, so your whole kitchen stays aligned on costs.
FoodCostAI works standalone, but it sits alongside Food Safe System, AllerQ, and Food Label System. Compliance and profitability aren't separate conversations in a well-run kitchen — FoodCostAI handles the numbers, the rest of Kitchen OS handles the operations.
It's free, full stop, for chefs and restaurants. No trial period that quietly becomes a bill. You only look at the rest of the Kitchen OS platform if and when you want to.
Your recipes are yours. FoodCostAI is built to keep your data secure and won't share your ingredient lists or costings with anyone else.
FoodCostAI runs in your browser, so you can access it from any device with a connection — desktop, tablet, or phone.
Depends on your menu size, but most chefs get their first few dishes costed in minutes. You can add the rest of your menu gradually rather than doing it all in one sitting.
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