About Recipe Cost Calculator
My professional software development career began in 2000.
Around 2010 my wife and I co-founded Kitchening & Co. (a wholesale
bakery) and I took on the role of Chief Operating Officer (among a dozen other things). After
spending countless hours in Excel and scouring the internet to find a decent piece of recipe costing
software, I came up empty-handed. Everything was either hard to use, ugly, expensive, desktop-based or
Windows only, and I had no interest in using any of it.
In 2012 I built Recipe Cost Calculator as an internal tool for Kitchening & Co. Realizing
that many of the other small and medium sized food businesses that I love could greatly benefit from
Recipe Cost Calculator, I released it to the public in 2013.
It's now 10 years later and Recipe Cost Calculator has seen literally hundreds
of new features developed to help businesses of all shapes and sizes, from pre-revenue startups to
nation-wide restaurant chains, to multi-million dollar manufacturing operations, to mom-and-pop bakers
at the local market, and everyone in between. We have thousands of users and paying customers in over 50 countries.
In 2021 we sold Kitchening & Co. in order to spend more time with our kids, and to have more time
building features for Recipe Cost Calculator -- to help your business be more successful.
Wishing you success in all your endeavours!