Food costing made simple
Know what every dish really costs you.
Ingredient prices go up a little at a time. PlateCost works out the cost of every dish down to the gram, and tells you which ones have stopped making money.
Free for 20 recipes · no card needed · sample kitchen included
Recipes
| Recipe | Price | Cost | Food cost | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttermilk Pancakes | ₱195.00 | ₱62.79 | Warning | |
| Chicken Adobo | ₱260.00 | ₱82.04 | Warning | |
| Chicken Rice Bowl | ₱185.00 | ₱81.02 | Critical | |
| Garlic Fried Rice | ₱80.00 | ₱22.58 | Healthy | |
| Iced Coffee | ₱130.00 | ₱33.51 | Healthy |
Exact to 4 decimals
No rounding mistakes in your numbers.
Sauces counted too
A sauce used in a dish is costed as well.
No internet needed
Works in the stockroom and at the market.
77 automatic tests
The maths is checked every time we change it.
Prices go up quietly.
Chicken does not jump 14% in one day. It goes up ₱5, then ₱10, then ₱10 again. Each rise looks too small to worry about, so the price on your menu stays the same.
Four rises later you are keeping less from every plate you sell — and you usually find out only when the month has already closed badly.
What you paid for chicken
Food cost of Chicken Adobo
One ingredient went up 13.9% and moved this dish from 28.9% to 31.6% food cost. If your target is 30%, that is the difference between fine and not fine.
How it works
It does the hard maths for you.
01
You don't get to use the whole kilo
You buy 1 kg of onion for ₱100. After peeling, only 850 g is left to cook with. PlateCost divides by what you can actually use, so 100 g in a recipe costs ₱11.76 — not the ₱10 a simple divide would give you. Set this once and every dish with onion is correct from then on.
- You bought
- 1 kg for ₱100.00
- You can use
- 85% → 850 g
- So one gram costs
- ₱0.1176
02
Your sauce is a recipe too
The adobo braising liquid is its own recipe. One litre costs ₱107.44, and Chicken Adobo uses 350 ml of it — so it adds ₱37.60. When garlic gets more expensive, the sauce costs more, and then every dish made with that sauce costs more. PlateCost follows the whole chain. It also stops you putting a recipe inside itself.
03
See what will change before you save it
Type in the new prices your supplier gave you. Before anything is saved, PlateCost shows you every dish that will cost more, what its new food cost will be, and which dishes go past your target. Say yes and the whole menu updates at once.
Works without internet.
Signal is worst in the stockroom, in cold storage, and at the market — the exact places you need to check a price. PlateCost keeps your whole business on your phone, so adding recipes and changing prices work the same with or without a connection.
- Add it to your home screen like an app
- Open it with no signal and everything is there
- Change a price and all your dishes update on the spot
- When signal comes back, your changes upload on their own
Pricing
Pay with GCash, Maya, GrabPay or card. Stop any time.
Starter
Most popular₱299
per month
- Unlimited recipes
- Full price history
- Reports and CSV export
- CSV import
Restaurant
₱999
per month
- 3 businesses
- Suppliers and price comparison
- Cost alerts
- All reports
Multi-Branch
₱2,499
per month
- Unlimited businesses
- Different costs per branch
- Staff accounts
- Advanced reports
Common questions
- Do I need internet to use it?
- No. Your business is saved on your own device, so every part of it works without a connection — including making recipes and changing prices. Your changes upload by themselves once you have signal again.
- I buy in kilos but cook in grams.
- Enter it the way your supplier sells it, then use whatever unit makes sense in the recipe. PlateCost converts weight, volume and pieces. If a conversion is not real — a “pack” has no fixed size — it tells you instead of guessing.
- Can I use a sauce inside other dishes?
- Yes, as many levels deep as you need. Change one ingredient in the sauce and every dish made with it is recalculated. A recipe can never be put inside itself.
- Can I use it outside the Philippines?
- Yes. You choose your currency when you set up, and every amount follows it. PHP, USD, AUD, SGD and more.
- Will small rounding errors build up?
- No. Money is stored as exact decimals, not the kind of number that drifts, and rounding only happens where you can see it. The maths has an automatic test suite covering conversions, waste, margins and price changes.
- What if I go over the free limit?
- Nothing is lost. You keep every recipe you have made and can still edit and reprice them. You just cannot add new dishes until you upgrade.
Are you making money on that dish?
Add a few ingredients, build one recipe, and you will know in the next five minutes.