Free menu costing tool
Know what your food actually costs.
Cost recipes. Price menus. Understand your margins.
Calculate ingredient costs, food cost percentage, selling prices, gross profit, and margins — without spreadsheets.
Free to use · No signup required
Menu costing calculator
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Why Cost My Menu
From ingredient costs to confident pricing.
Know your real costs
Calculate ingredient costs accurately, including yield and waste.
Price with confidence
See what you should charge based on your target food cost or desired gross profit.
Understand your margins
See food cost %, gross profit, and gross margin at a glance.
Build better menus
Use real numbers to make smarter menu decisions.
Tools
Tools for better food businesses.
Each tool answers one business question. Start anywhere — your recipes carry over.
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How it works
Three steps from receipt to selling price.
Enter your ingredients
Add what you buy, what you pay, and how much you use.
Build your recipe
Set portions, yield, waste, packaging, labour, and other costs.
See your numbers
Get cost per serving, food cost %, suggested pricing, gross profit, and margin.
Results
Numbers you can actually use.
Every figure comes from the ingredients you entered, with the formula shown so you can check it.
Food cost % = cost per serving ÷ selling price. Gross profit = selling price − cost per serving.
Who it’s for
Built for the way food businesses actually work.
You buy by the kilo, the bottle, and the tray, and you sell by the plate and the cup. The calculator works in those units, with café-scale examples throughout.
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Templates
Ready-to-use tools for your food business.
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Resources
Learn how to run a more profitable menu.
Most food businesses price their menu the same way: look at what the shop down the road charges, shave off ten pesos, and hope. It works until a supplier raises the price of cooking oil, or portions quietly creep up, and a dish that felt profitable has been losing money for months without anyone noticing.
This calculator replaces the guess with arithmetic. Enter what you buy and what you pay for it — a kilo of chicken at 250 pesos, a 750 ml bottle of soy sauce at 120 — then how much of each goes into one serving. It converts the units for you, so pricing by the kilo and cooking by the gram is no longer a source of error. You get the cost of one serving, what percentage of your selling price that represents, your gross profit in pesos, and your margin.
Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere. The whole thing runs in your browser, there is no signup, and you can close the tab whenever you like.
Questions people actually ask
Is the calculator free?
Yes, and there is no signup. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you type is sent to a server or stored anywhere.
What currency does it use?
Philippine pesos by default. The currency is a setting rather than something hard-coded, so the same tool works for AUD, USD, SGD, EUR, GBP, CAD, NZD and JPY.
Do I need to know my exact ingredient prices?
Start with your latest delivery receipt or invoice. Approximate prices give you an approximate answer, which is still far more useful than no answer — you can refine the numbers as you go.
Can I use it on my phone in the kitchen?
Yes. On a small screen the ingredient rows become cards and your cost per serving stays pinned to the bottom of the screen, so the answer is visible while you are still typing.
Your menu should make money.
Start with the numbers. Cost your food, understand your margins, and price with confidence.
Free to use · No signup required