PlateProfit: Food Costing
The all-in-one platform for professional restaurants to manage recipe costs, optimize pricing, and boost profitability.
Restaurant owners and chefs suffer from shrinking margins due to hidden food costs, unpredictable market price fluctuations, and hours wasted on manual prep planning and inventory tracking.
PlateProfit calculates the exact cost and profit margin of every dish in real-time, automating inventory valuation and prep lists, while leveraging community-powered "PriceMatch" intelligence to spot local supplier savings.
About this product
Stop guessing. Start profiting. PlateProfit is the ultimate culinary sidekick designed to bring precision and profit to your kitchen. Built for restaurants, caterers, and ambitious home chefs, PlateProfit eliminates the need for complex spreadsheets and napkin math.
Easily digitize your kitchen by adding ingredients and building recipes to instantly reveal your exact cost per serving and profit margins. Set target food costs and let the app suggest optimized selling prices. Go beyond basic costing with pro features like PriceMatch Intelligence, which compares your purchase prices against local market averages to highlight hidden savings, and the Smart Swap Tool, which lets you swap an ingredient across your entire menu to preview financial impact instantly.
From automated daily prep lists to menu engineering and waste logging, PlateProfit turns your raw inventory data into actionable insights, ensuring your kitchen runs smoothly and profitably.
Key Features
- Real-Time Recipe Costing: Calculate precise costs per serving and ideal food cost percentages.
- PriceMatch™ Intelligence: Compare your ingredient costs against local, anonymized market averages.
- Menu Engineering & Sales Mix: Automatically classify menu items into Stars, Puzzles, Plowhorses, and Dogs
- Smart Ingredient Swap: Simulate swapping ingredients across the entire menu with full cost-impact analysis.
- Kitchen Prep Planning: Generate consolidated shopping and daily prep lists from production goals.
- Buffet & Event Costing: Aggregate recipe costs to set profitable per-person event pricing.
- Stock Take & Valuation: Perform digital stock takes for real-time valuation of raw inventory and batch recipes.
- Waste Tracking & Logging: Log and analyze food waste to pinpoint financial leaks.
- Yield Calculator: Calculate true ingredient costs post-prep and automatically create yielded inventory items.
- Team Collaboration: Invite chefs and staff with role-based permissions (Owner, Admin, Member).
- Professional PDF Reports: Export recipe cards, purchase orders, and inventory count sheets.
- Cloud Sync: Seamlessly sync data across web and mobile offline-first environments.
Results & Outcomes
After deploying PlateProfit, chefs gained a clear, real-time view of their profitability. Using the PriceMatch feature and automated menu engineering, kitchens were able to identify overpriced supplier items and eliminate significant hidden costs within their first quarter of use.
8% (Q1)
Food Cost Reduction
100% (VAT & Yield Included)
Recipe Costing Accuracy
Hours/week (Automated Lists)
Saved Prep Time
Built with
Estimated cost
Free Tier — PRO Subscription
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This product is fully live and available for deployment.