About Recipe Cost Calculator
Recipe Cost Calculator began in 2012 as an internal tool I built for my own wholesale bakery. I couldn't find software I actually wanted to use, so I built it myself.
As of 2026, I've spent 26 years building enterprise-quality software responsible for billions of dollars in financial transactions. Recipe Cost Calculator is built with that same level of care and reliability.
The Origin Story
In 2010, my wife and I co-founded Kitchening & Co., a wholesale bakery in British Columbia. I took on the role of Chief Operating Officer (among a dozen other hats).
After spending countless hours in Excel and scouring the internet for decent recipe costing software, I came up empty. Everything was either hard to use, ugly, expensive, desktop-only, or Windows-only. I had no interest in using any of it.
Given my background in software development, I decided to build a tool I'd actually enjoy using. Recipe Cost Calculator was born in 2012, and I released it as a subscription service in early 2013.
13 Years Later
Today, Recipe Cost Calculator serves thousands of food businesses around the world: pre-revenue startups, nationwide restaurant chains, multi-million dollar manufacturing operations, and mom-and-pop bakers at the local farmers market.
In 2021, we sold Kitchening & Co. to spend more time with our kids and to focus fully on building Recipe Cost Calculator. Every feature we add comes from real conversations with real food business owners — people just like you.
Wishing you success in all your endeavours,
