Built by chefs, for chefs
And when your suppliers raise prices, you instantly know how it hits your menu. No Excel, no install. Your first recipe cost in minutes.
Free · No card · 500+ ingredients preloaded
No manuals. You start right in the browser.
Or start with the 500+ sample ingredients already loaded (with kcal, macros and allergens). You don't start from scratch.
Combine ingredients and base recipes. The cost is calculated automatically, including yields. In your language, currency and measurement system.
Food cost %, margin and ratio of every dish. If a supplier's price goes up, your menu updates itself and you know which dishes are affected.
From the cost of every ingredient to the profitability of your whole menu, always up to date.
Calculate the exact cost of each recipe instantly. Forget manual spreadsheets and calculation errors.
Collaborate with your team. Assign specific permissions to cooks, station chefs, and operations directors.
Set your sales prices with real data. Know your net profit margin and optimize your menu engineering.
Price control
ChefExpenses keeps the price history of every ingredient and recalculates your recipe costs on its own. You see each dish's cost evolution and which ones are losing margin.
Cost breakdown by ingredients, labor and consumables, plus the food cost % at a glance.
Menu engineering
Cross your sales with current costs and ChefExpenses classifies your menu into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs, with a suggestion for each.
Decide with data which dishes to promote, reprice or remove. Included from the Restaurant plan.
Import allergens, calories and macronutrients from three complementary sources: official Spanish government data, global commercial products, and the ChefExpenses collaborative database of professional chefs. No more transcribing labels by hand.
Spanish Food Composition Database from the BEDCA Consortium and the Spanish Food Safety Agency (AESAN). Scientifically validated.
Scan any commercial product's barcode and get name, brand, confirmed allergens, traces and macros instantly.
When a product isn't in either database, you add it to the catalog. Next time any chef scans it, from any restaurant, they'll find it instantly.
Comply with European allergen regulations without transcribing labels by hand. The final allergen-compliance responsibility always lies with the establishment: check the actual product label before serving.
Start free and switch plans as your restaurant or group grows.
€12.10/month incl. VAT
Everything in Cook, plus:
€30.25/month incl. VAT
Everything in Chef, plus:
€60.50/month incl. VAT
Everything in Restaurant, plus:
Prices exclude VAT. Spanish VAT (21%) is added for customers in Spain; in other EU countries, their local VAT; EU businesses with a valid VAT number and customers outside the EU pay no VAT.
Monthly subscription with automatic renewal. Cancel anytime from your profile and keep access until the end of the paid period. 14-day right of withdrawal.
No sign-up and no email required. Use them even without an account.
Work out what every dish costs with ready-made formulas. When you outgrow it, upload it to ChefExpenses as it is.
Excel (.xlsx). Also opens in Google Sheets, Numbers and LibreOffice.
Supplier, purchase format, price and % edible. The sheet works out the price per kg, litre, lb or unit for you.
Pick each ingredient from a list and get trim waste, cost per portion, food cost %, gross profit and a suggested menu price.
Upload the same file in “Import data” and your ingredients, suppliers and prices come in at once. Nothing to retype.
Why it beats a spreadsheet
Work out the cost, food cost and margin of a dish in your browser, with 500+ ingredients already priced.
Learn to cost your recipes and price your menu.
Everything you need to know about recipe costing and food cost control.
Recipe costing is the detailed calculation of a recipe's cost by adding up the price of every ingredient, consumables and labor. ChefExpenses calculates it automatically and recursively: you define your ingredients with their price and the app derives the cost per portion, the margin and the profit ratio of every dish.
It keeps the price history of every ingredient, recalculates your recipe costs when a supplier raises prices and shows you which dishes are losing margin. With menu engineering you identify your stars and your problem dishes so you can decide with data.
Yes. A single account manages multiple restaurants, each with its own recipes, menus and collaborators. You can share an ingredient catalog across locations to avoid duplicate work.
No. ChefExpenses is built for kitchen professionals, not accountants. You enter your ingredients and recipes just like you would on a recipe card and the app does all the calculations for you.
Yes, you can start for free with no credit card required. As your operation grows, paid plans add more restaurants, collaborators and advanced analysis features.
Yes. Every account and restaurant is isolated: only you and the collaborators you invite can access your data. Information is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure in Europe with backups and encryption in transit.
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We set up the recipe cost of your signature dish together, with your ingredients and your prices.
Free, no card, no sales call. Your first recipe cost in minutes.
