Recipe costing software for chefs

Calculate your food costs and manage your recipes.

Stop guessing your margins. Say goodbye to complicated spreadsheets.

No credit card required

Trusted by thousands of chefs in over 30 countries

Restaurants and bakeries that use Chef Notepad
Chef Notepad recipe costing dashboard on a laptop, showing food cost, selling price and profit for every recipe
Classic Beef Burger
26%food cost
Profit per dish
$21.58
Price alert · Steak and Chips
▲ 8.3%cost rise

What changes when you know your numbers

Four things chefs tell us they stop worrying about

Know your food cost before it bites you

Real cost and margin for every dish, always up to date.

Price menus with confidence

See what every dish earns before it goes on the menu.

Stop losing margin to invoice creep

When a supplier price moves, your costs move with it.

Count stock once

Stocktake that values itself, with wastage in the numbers.

Take control of your recipes, food costs, suppliers, and stocktake

One dashboard for everything that eats into your margins. Track ingredient costs, manage suppliers, and stay on top of stock, all in real time.

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.

Built to be simple… because kitchens don’t need more complicated software

See it for yourself. Click below for a real recipe, costed and ready to go.

Done-for-you setup

Don't want to enter your ingredients yourself?

We'll set up your account from your invoices. Free on the annual plan.

No credit card required

Chefs like you are already saving money

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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
Adrien Duraffourd
Pastry Chef & Recipe Developer
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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
Justin Schmitt
Executive Chef, Château Eza
★ One Michelin star · France
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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
Aaron Field
Executive Chef, The Club at Rancharrah

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