Food costing for restaurants, cafés & caterers

Know the true cost of
every plate.

Cost every recipe to the ingredient and watch the margin update live — then quote events, plan buffets, run HACCP and track inventory, all in one system that syncs across every device.

Free to start — no card Works on any device — nothing to install Cancel anytime
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ProChefDesk dashboard — average food cost, weekly labour cost, low stock alerts and cost health at a glance

Everything the kitchen runs on.

A connected toolset for the back of house — costing, menus, prep, compliance and inventory in one place.

16+ professional tools · one subscription · six languages

Recipes

Live food cost, allergens, photos, version history — even estimated nutrition. Built the way a chef actually works.

Ingredients

Suppliers, prices, units, yield %. Change one price — every recipe, menu and report updates instantly.

Menu Studio

Block-canvas menu designer with live food cost, margin and automatic allergens. Pro templates — print or share.

Menu Engineering

Stars, plow-horses, puzzles and dogs — see which dishes earn their place and which just fill the page.

Nutrition

Estimated calories and macros per serving, calculated from the ingredients you already entered.

Batch Calculator

Scale any recipe to any batch size — units convert themselves and the costs follow.

Kitchen Cards

Printable A4 recipe cards for the line. Big type, scaled portions, highlighted allergens.

Events & Catering

Plan a wedding, banquet or function. Guest count, recipe scaling, prep list, food cost and profit.

Buffet Planner

Stations, per-guest portions and realistic pickup rates — with live food-cost % so you produce enough, not double.

Roster & Labour

Weekly roster with leave codes and departments. Labour-cost totals build as you assign; print, Excel or image share.

Inventory & Variance

Stock counts with low-stock alerts, a costed waste log, and theoretical-vs-actual variance that finds the leaks.

Waste Tracking

Log what gets thrown away, costed per entry — so you see exactly where money leaks.

Suppliers

Contacts, products, lead times. Send orders by email or WhatsApp; order history at a glance.

Checklists & HACCP

Opening and closing routines, prep sheets, cooling and temperature logs — HACCP-ready templates included.

HACCP Audit Pack

One click compiles the month — every log, exception and signature line in a single inspector-ready PDF.

Service Whiteboard

Printable A4/A3 service board — covers, dietary counts, the 86 list and today's specials.

Plan a 200-cover event without the spreadsheet

Build the menu, set the head count, and see food cost, revenue and profit in real time — then print a client-ready quote, capture the e-signature, and turn it into shopping lists and prep sheets in one step.

Events

Every function, costed and confirmed

Banquets, weddings and caterings in one list, each with guest count, venue, food cost, revenue and profit.

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ProChefDesk events list — banquets and weddings with food cost, revenue and profit per event
Event

Know the profit before you say yes

Per-guest food cost, profit against the client's budget and the full dish list — quote with the numbers in front of you, send a client-ready proposal with the costs hidden, and capture the client's e-signature.

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ProChefDesk event detail — total food cost, food cost per guest, profit and event menu
Buffet Planner

Buffets that hold their margin

Covers, ticket price and live food-cost % on every buffet — green when it's on target, amber when it needs a second look.

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ProChefDesk buffet planner — covers, ticket price and live food cost percentage per buffet
Buffet

Stations, portions and pickup, calibrated

Per-guest amounts, realistic pickup rates and expected waste by station — so you produce enough for the room, not twice as much.

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ProChefDesk buffet detail — food cost percent, per-cover cost, expected waste and stations
Menus

Engineer the menu, not just type it

Sections, prices, allergens and live margin in one editor — print it, or share a public link.

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ProChefDesk Menu Studio — sections, dish prices, allergen codes and live margin
Roster & labour · Pro

See the wage bill before you commit

Plan the week by department with leave codes; labour-cost totals build as you assign each shift.

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ProChefDesk weekly roster — staff shifts by department with total hours and labour cost
HACCP · Pro

Audit-ready, logged in real time

Temperature, cooling, receiving and holding logs from your phone — compiled into a monthly binder when you need it.

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ProChefDesk HACCP daily fridge and freezer temperature log with morning and evening readings
Inventory & stock control

Count stock, find every leak

Count inventory, get low-stock alerts, and measure theoretical usage against what you actually used — with the variance costed per ingredient, so quiet losses surface instead of hiding in the average.

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ProChefDesk cost variance — theoretical vs actual ingredient usage with dollar variance
Client quote

The proposal your client signs

Menus, pricing, payment schedule and signature lines — costs hidden, ready to send. Capture the e-signature right in the app.

HACCP Audit Pack · Pro

One click, and the month is audit-ready

Every log, coverage gap, out-of-range event and signature line — compiled into one inspector-ready PDF in a click. The compliance paperwork caterers dread, done.

ProChefDesk HACCP Audit Pack — a monthly inspector-ready report showing temperature-check totals, daily-log coverage, in-range percentage, records by form and a corrective-action log with sign-off

Change one price. Every dish reprices itself.

Every recipe is costed to the ingredient — sub-recipes, yield and unit conversions included. Open any dish for its live food cost and margin, export a full cost report to PDF or Excel, or send the owner a private cost link or QR code to open on any phone.

ProChefDesk recipe detail on a phone — dish photo, live food cost and margin
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ProChefDesk cost report — ingredient-level food cost, suggested price and margin
ProChefDesk full cost report on a phone

When a supplier price changes, the food cost on every recipe, menu and report updates with it — automatically. You see which plates have slipped below margin before service, not at the end of the quarter.

Pull a cost report, send a read-only cost link to the owner, or edit and share a menu — the full toolset on mobile, not a reduced one.

Autosaves as you work; syncs across your devices.
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ProChefDesk recipes list showing live food cost percentage on every dish
ProChefDesk recipes and live food cost on a phone
Why ProChefDesk

Most kitchen software is built for accountants. ProChefDesk is built for the chefs who run the kitchen.

The back-office side of a kitchen usually lives in disconnected spreadsheets — files that never reconcile, recipes stranded on one laptop, formulas that break the moment a supplier price moves. ProChefDesk consolidates it: costing, menus, prep, events, inventory and HACCP in one system that stays in sync from the kitchen to the office.

Try it free, then run your kitchen on Pro. The free plan lets you cost a few dishes and see how the system works. Pro removes the limits — unlimited recipes, cloud sync across devices, HACCP, labour cost and clean exports — for one flat price you can cancel anytime.

01 / Multi-device

Works wherever you are

Phone during service, tablet in prep, laptop after closing — the same data on every device, always in sync. Nothing to install.

02 / Your data

Your data, always yours

Import your ingredient list from Excel to start fast. Nightly cloud backups, six languages, a separate workspace per venue — and export anything to Excel or PDF, anytime.

03 / Fair pricing

Honest pricing, no lock-in

Try the full system free, no card required. When the kitchen needs more than a few recipes — cloud sync, HACCP, labour cost and clean exports — Pro is one flat price you can cancel anytime.

Used every day in a working professional kitchen. Support goes straight to the founder — a working head chef.
Ahmet Kaya — Head Chef, ProChefDesk
I'm Ahmet — a head chef across fine dining and high-volume banquets, from Istanbul to hotels and resorts in the Gulf, including Marriott multi-property catering during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The business side of a kitchen — cost, margin, compliance — has never had software that works the way a kitchen actually does. So I built it, to the standard I hold my own kitchen to: recipes, costing, menus, prep and HACCP in one place, in sync on every device. I use it every service.
Ahmet Kaya Head Chef

Made for late-night service

Easy on the eyes at midnight and sharp on every screen — the same tools and the same numbers, after dark.

ProChefDesk dashboard in dark mode ProChefDesk service whiteboard in dark mode ProChefDesk menu studio in dark mode

Simple plans. No surprises.

Try the full system free. Move to Pro when it's running your kitchen — one flat price, cancel anytime.

Free
$0
To try the system before you commit
  • Up to 4 recipes
  • Up to 20 ingredients
  • 1 workspace
  • One of each tool to try — menu, event, buffet, roster
  • One export per tool
  • Local only — no cloud sync
  • No HACCP, labour cost or link sharing
  • Exports carry a small footer
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One tool instead of three
HACCP software ~$84 · food costing ~$30 · event & catering ~$65
≈ $179 / month
ProChefDesk — all of it, $19/mo
And that's just three of the 16+ tools included — the full toolset is listed above.
Cancel anytime from the app. No lock-in, no surprises.

Get your first real food cost
today.

Set up your first recipes free, no card — and see real food cost in minutes. Go Pro when you're ready to run the whole kitchen.

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