Recipe Cost Calculator
Know your food costs. Protect your margins.
Built for your Restaurant.
Recipe Cost Calculator gives restaurants, bakeries, caterers, and food producers the tools to cost recipes accurately, track ingredient prices, scale production, and make pricing decisions based on real numbers — not guesswork.
What Our Customers Say
- Patty L Reiew from Capterra
Recipe Cost Calculator is such a powerful tool. It has been a complete game changer for me.
- Lindsay DuPont Review from Customer
I wanted to say thanks for building this! I have dreamed of an application like this for years & it's beautifully done. All I've ever wanted and more, and phenomenally user friendly.
- Parisa N Reiew from Capterra
We have finally found a solution to help us manage our costs and organize our countless recipes.
- Seth Iiames Customer
Recipe Cost Calculator has enabled us to decrease food costs by 10% due to less waste and better eyes on price changes.
- Jana R Review from Capterra
My recipes are up-to-date, clean, costed... with clear understanding, including profit margins.
- Andrea Lubkin Customer
Recipe Cost Calculator is the most comprehensive restaurant focused cost calculator I've ever seen.
- Emiliana P La Cocina SF
Recipe Cost Calculator has become an extremely valuable tool for us. We have been blown away by the constant improvements made to the tool.
- Sarah C Review from Capterra
Recipe Cost Calculator is a great tool for my small business... I have had fantastic customer service
How Recipe Cost Calculator Works
RCC Lowers Your Food Cost
View per-ingredient or per-category recipe costs with a glance, allowing you to make informed decisions about where to find your most significant savings. Change ingredients? Find a cheaper supplier? Tweak your recipe formula? Increase your prices?
These are the questions you'll be able to answer with the help of Recipe Cost Calculator.
1. Feedback gathered from customers (2018-2022)
Easily update food costs and know when your menu items are not hitting your targets.
Learn moreWork on Desktop or Mobile
You and your team need to access your recipes and costing data in a way that makes sense for you, which is why we build Recipe Cost Calculator to work brilliantly on desktops, laptops and mobile devices (Android and iOS). Customers around the world access their recipes, create purchase orders, take inventory and train staff using Recipe Cost Calculator in their restaurant and production kitchens.
We help you work brilliantly on desktop and mobile devices running iOS or Android
Scale Recipes With Precision (in seconds)
Create or view scaled versions of your recipes with no more than a few clicks. Not only that, but we can dynamically scale any combination or group of recipes in order to generate a bill of materials or shopping list, prepare a production plan, or view raw materials for a given days sales.
In this simple example, we have three individual cookie recipes from our account that we've scaled based on demand. In seconds, we've generated a full shopping list (bill of materials). You can use this for forecasting in your restaurant, planning ahead in your bakery, organizing events in your catering business or countless other ways.
1. Feedback gathered from customers (2018-2022)
Incredible recipe scaling that borders on magical
Learn moreDramatically Improve Staff Training
Show your staff exactly how dishes are prepared by providing step by step instructions, including images of each step, and easily export to PDF for printing or training materials.
We provide a single source of truth for all your recipes
Learn moreKeep Your Customers Informed and Safe
Feel better about ensuring your customers know exactly what they're getting. No more poring over labels and worrying about formula changes to make sure you have the most accurate spec sheet on hand. Set up your ingredients once, and Recipe Cost Calculator will forever tell you exactly what major allergens are in any of your menu items. Oh, you need nutrition data? Yeah. We do that, too.
1. Operators use of technology in the kitchen, a 2020 study by The Access Group
Allergen tagging that flows through all your recipes
Learn moreAutomate Measurement Conversions
Easily create measurement converters to convert between weight / volume or other units, depending on how you want to use your ingredients in your recipes. Set it once and forget it!
We help eliminate hours of work trying to manually perform unit conversions
Learn moreWhy Choose Recipe Cost Calculator?
We've helped thousands of restaurants, bakeries and other food businesses operate more efficiently for over a decade.
Built by a software engineer with industry experience, not a boardroom
Daniel started Recipe Cost Calculator in 2012 to run his own wholesale bakery. 14 years and thousands of food businesses later, it's still built by someone who's done the work.
Customers save up to 10% on food costs
When you can see exactly what every recipe costs — per ingredient, per category, per serving — you find savings you didn't know existed. Our customers consistently report measurable reductions in waste and raw material spend.
Powerful tools, honest pricing
Plans start at $29/month with no contracts and no per-user fees. That's 5-10x less than competitors like MarginEdge or MarketMan — with features they don't offer, like FDA-compliant nutrition labels.
Other ways Recipe Cost Calculator works for you
All plans come with these benefits out of the box.
Your recipes stay private
Every account is fully isolated. Your recipes, costs, and supplier data are never shared, never used for analytics, and never visible to other users. Period.
Encrypted end to end
All data in transit uses TLS encryption. Your account is protected by industry-standard authentication, and API access is controlled with scoped, revocable keys.
Nightly encrypted backups
Your data is backed up every night to encrypted off-site storage.
Connect to your workflow
A full REST API with interactive documentation lets you pull recipe data, ingredient costs, inventory counts, and purchase orders into your own systems. Build the integrations your business needs.