Calculate your food costs and manage your recipes.
Say goodbye to complicated spreadsheets.
Designed by chefs, for chefs.
Chef Notepad is designed and created to help chefs. We listen to real feedback from kitchens all over the world to keep our features ever evolving.
A recipe cost calculator for every kitchen.
Chef Notepad is the perfect tool for chefs to store recipes and manage your food cost. All your recipes are in one place and accessible from any device. It’s simple, user-friendly and precise.
Manage ingredients
Categorise your ingredients by product and supplier. Assign prices, wastage and measurements.
Create your recipe book
Organise your recipes, and calculate your profit including wastage and taxes. Easily scale your recipes to suit your needs.
Simplify stocktake
Doing stocktake is never fun, but Chef Notepad makes it simple, increases accuracy, saves time and reduces frustration.
Design your menus
A menu calculator that efficiently values menu items including set menus, wedding and events menus, daily specials etc.
Share and print
Print and share your recipes with friends and colleagues from any device. Export and import data from Chef Notepad in seconds.
Calculate your food cost
Stay in control of your food cost and improve consistency in your kitchen. Say goodbye to complicated spreadsheets.
Trusted by restaurants around the world
Chef Notepad Boosts Accuracy by Integrating with LIGHTYEAR.
Chef Notepad has now integrated with Lightyear, a tool that efficiently reads invoices and establishes links with various accounting platforms. This exciting collaboration enables you to update all your prices on Chef Notepad with just 2 clicks, ensuring a live and accurate calculation of your food cost percentage.
This represents an excellent method to maintain in control on your pricing.
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"It's so easy to cost desserts that contain multiple recipes. It used to be so time consuming with spreadsheets."
Adrien Duraffourd
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"Chef Notepad brought clarity to my costings. I was losing money without knowing. I would recommend it to any chefs."
Justin Schmitt
Executive Chef -
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"It makes it easy to access my ingredient and recipe costs from anywhere in the world, at any time."
Aaron Field
Head Baker
Start using Chef Notepad for free.
Access all features for 14 days to try Chef Notepad in your kitchen.
Contact Chef Notepad.
We’re always happy to help with any questions you may have. Feel free to reach out to our friendly team. We’d love to hear from you!
Jessica | Account manager