What is KitchenCost?
KitchenCost is a mobile-first recipe costing app for iOS, macOS, Android, and web that turns ingredient purchase prices into per-recipe and per-serving costs. It is built for home bakers, small cafes, food trucks, and pop-ups who need consistent menu pricing without maintaining spreadsheets. Users add ingredients with unit costs, build recipes and reusable sub-recipes, set a target margin, and get a suggested selling price that updates whenever input prices change.
Why KitchenCost works
Most small food operators price dishes from memory or fragile spreadsheets where one broken formula corrupts every margin. KitchenCost centralizes ingredient prices, propagates updates through every recipe that uses them, and applies a target margin formula to suggest a price, so a vendor price change becomes a single edit rather than an afternoon of rework.
KitchenCost features
- Ingredient cost engine. Stores unit purchase prices and computes the cost of any quantity used in a recipe so totals stay accurate when supplier prices move.
- Sub-recipe nesting. Lets users build sauces, doughs, or creams as their own recipes and reference them inside larger dishes with recursive cost rollup.
- Margin-based pricing. Applies a target margin to the recipe cost and suggests a selling price so menu items stay profitable as ingredient prices change.
- Folders and search. Groups ingredients and recipes into folders with sorting and search so a working chef can find a tagine recipe without scrolling.
- Multi-currency support. Handles KRW, USD, EUR, JPY and other currencies so operators in different markets can cost recipes in their local pricing units.
- Trash and restore. Holds deleted ingredients and recipes in a recoverable trash so a wrong tap does not erase weeks of recipe work.
Who KitchenCost is for
- Home bakers selling custom cakes from a domestic kitchen who need defensible prices when supermarket flour and butter prices shift week to week.
- Small cafe owners writing a new menu who want a per-dish cost and a target-margin price before printing the board.
- Food truck operators rotating specials who need to know which items still hit margin after a wholesale price hike.
- Pop-up caterers quoting one-off events who must convert an ingredient list into a confident per-head price quickly.
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