Great food.
Healthy margins.
Cost recipes, plan prep and price menus with practical tools for working kitchens.
Free calculatorFree to tryNo account needed
Built on shiftBy a working UK chef
Yours offlineExcel & Google Sheets
Know the number
before service.
Replace the example with your own ingredients. The totals update here, in your browser.
Braised beef
Example recipe. Replace these ingredients and costs with your own.
| Ingredient | Quantity | Unit | Batch cost (£) | Remove |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Use the example without an account. Open the recipe tool to keep recipes, scale batches and print prep lists.
Braised beef£1.79 → £7.18costs → sells
30–35% food cost.
That’s the line.
Know what the plate costs before it goes on the menu. Food costing, menu pricing and prep sheets for UK kitchens, built by a working chef. Free calculators run in your browser, with simple Excel sheets when you want the whole job done.
UK kitchens generally aim for 30–35% food cost, a 65–70% gross profit on the ex-VAT price. If you don’t know a dish’s number, you can’t know which side of the line it’s on.
Where this number comes from →Three useful jobs.
Free in your browser.
No account is needed to try them; choose the optional account only when you want recipe sync.
Browser calculator · no account neededFood cost & GP calculator
Type a recipe, get cost per portion and GP% instantly.
Open calculator →Recipe and prep workspacePrep sheet builder
Build and print a working prep list for your next service.
Open builder →Straightforward kitchen guidesCosting &
pricing guides
Work out GP, price a catering job and run a stock take.
Read the guides →Eleven jobs.
One honest price each.
One file per job. Excel and Google Sheets. Yours offline, for good, via Etsy.
All spreadsheets 9 more tools
Read the write-ups first: all tools · Kitchen Pack
“If an £11.99 sheet saves one badly-priced dish, it’s paid for itself.”
I cost menus for a living. Every sheet in the pack is one I actually use: built on shift, fixed on shift. The same chef runs @offthepass on YouTube, where the cost-breakdown videos come off these exact spreadsheets.
The free tools do not need an account. Keep your numbers on this device, or choose the optional account when you want recipe sync.
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