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About Recipe Cost Calculator
Recipe Cost Calculator was designed for food business owner and operators who want software that is both powerful and also easy to use.
We've worked hard to create an extremely intuitive interface to help you manage your ingredients, suppliers, recipes, nutrition data (add-on), inventory (add-on) and more.
With Recipe Cost Calculator, you only need to pay for the features that offer the most value to your business.
The primary types of businesses that can benefit from Recipe Cost Calculator are:
- Restaurants
- Small and medium food manufacturers / producers
- Catering companies
- Bakeries
- Retail shops (cafe, coffee, etc.)
We have powerful tools to help you manage all aspects of your costing, including tools to help you set margins, sell prices, easily update costs, print instructions, generate shopping lists and more.
Try Recipe Cost Calculator for free and upgrade to a paid plan only when you need to based on your usage.
Our support is legendary and we have a wide variety of online help content in both text and video form.
Let us help you succeed in running your food business.
Recipe Cost Calculator pricing
Recipe Cost Calculator has a free version and offers a free trial. Recipe Cost Calculator paid version starts at US$29.00/month.
Starting Price:
US$29.00/month
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Recipe Cost Calculator Reviews
Feature rating
5 reviews of 15
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Peter
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 13/10/2020
Outstanding value in recipe management software
Very happy for the price. Highly recommend.
Pros
- Simple ingredient and recipe building
- Fast and easy shopping list and production plan creation
- Ability to create USDA nutrition fact panels
- Outstanding customer service
Cons
- Displaying large number of ingredients or recipes slows down interface
Response from Recipe Cost Calculator
Hi Peter,
Thanks so much for this review. Realizing that customers with thousands of ingredients and/or recipes was slowing down the interface we have drastically improved the performance, making it search-based and paginated instead of a single long list.
Overall performance viewing recipes and ingredients in long lists is now almost instantaneous, regardless of how many ingredients or recipes you have in your account.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Replied 6/03/2023
Sarah
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 17/02/2023
Recipe Cost Calculator 5 stars
This is a very valuable tool for me to manage my food cost. We are one year into owning our business and I think there is quite a bit more that I can do with this app that I have not explored yet. I look forward to using the other tools to see how they can be helpful as well. Most of all, I have had fantastic customer service from this company. They are kind, available and very helpful!
Pros
Recipe Cost Calculator is a great tool for my small business. It took us a little bit of time to figure out how to use the software but once we got used to it we fell in love. I really like that when you update any pricing for an ingredient it automatically updates all of your recipes using that ingredient. I also like that you can view your recipe in multiple ways. The pie chart of ingredient usage is a great visual to associate with what the costing looks like per recipe. You can also add ingredients as you are building a recipe with out leaving that page, huge time saver!!
Cons
Sometimes the conversions are tricky to incorporate. Some are an easy calculation and others you have to enter in a way that the software likes and remember how it is in when creating new recipes. For instance, eggs are in by weight not an each. So you have to multiply the weight to get the correct amount of eggs per recipe. The ingredient doesn't say that how it is entered so you have to remember or check.
Laura
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
4
Reviewed on 6/11/2020
Great product
Great customer service, great tool to use and organizing our recipes and getting pricing dialed.
Pros
Compared to other websites, I found this one easy to navigate.
Cons
I just needed something that had a little more functionality to it
Amber
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 5/06/2024
Recipe Cost Calculator Review
Recipe Cost Calculator is the perfect tool for anyone in the hospitality industry. It is a superior piece of software that does its job above and beyond.
Pros
Recipe Cost Calculator helped me get organised and feel more confident and professional during the stressful time of opening a cafe. It is very easy to use and troubleshoot. [sensitive content hidden] is always evolving and improving the functionality plus he is personally there to help out if you need it. I highly recommend this calculator, it is a very valuable business tool.
Cons
I did not have any negative experience using Recipe Cost Calculator. Typing in all your ingredients individually takes time but that is to be expected because the details are so thorough and once it’s done it is set up for good. Changing from there is easy and having all the detailed info about each ingredient saves you time down the track when menu planning.
Jana
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 28/10/2020
Success After Years of Searching!
All the information in one place! Having a representative right here in Canada and in my own Province! I now have easy access to all my ingredients and when an invoice comes in, I can easily add a new ingredient or update pricing if needed. My recipes are up-to-date; clean, costed, and with added graphs for clearer understanding, including the ever helpful profit margins from maker to distributer.
Pros
It has taken me years of searching to find a costing program that I could feel comfortable using, being straightforward enough for my skill level. I am a Pastry Chef first, not a computer person. And, while I was inputting information or setting up recipes it was very helpful to be able to ask for help in real time. They continue to work hard to see that this software encapsulates all aspects of hospitality.
Cons
As I became more comfortable with the software, I felt free to make suggestions, for eg. having a way to do inventory. So even though I did not come across anything to dislike, I could see that my suggestions were always heard.
