Built for your Restaurant
ChefMargin helps you track ingredient prices, cost recipes, scan supplier invoices, manage sub-recipes, and protect profit margins. No spreadsheets needed.
Food Cost %
28.4%
−1.2% this weekAvg Margin
71.6%
+0.8% this weekPending Updates
4
price changesRecipes
View all →Latest Receipt
Sysco — Jun 03
3 price changes found
Chicken Breast ↑ 12.4%
Affects 6 recipes
Suppliers
Whether you run one location or many, ChefMargin works the way your kitchen works.
Recipe Costing
Stop pricing from memory. ChefMargin calculates the exact cost of every recipe: per serving, per batch, per portion. Set a target food cost percentage and see the price you need to hit it.
Classic Beef Burger
Yields 1 each
78.6%
Gross Margin
Total Cost
$3.42
Sell Price
$16.00
Food Cost %
21.4%
Target pricing
Receipt Scanning
Upload a supplier invoice and ChefMargin reads it. Line items are matched to your ingredients, price changes are flagged, and you review before anything updates.
Sysco Invoice — Jun 03
Scanned · 12 line items
Supplier Price Tracking
ChefMargin keeps a full price history for every ingredient across every supplier. See what changed, when it changed, and exactly which recipes are affected.
Chicken Breast (Boneless)
Preferred supplier: Sysco Foods
$4.98/kg
↑ from $4.45
Price History
Used in 6 recipes
Pending Price Review
Price changes detected from receipts don't apply automatically. Every change sits in a review queue. You approve, reject, or correct each one before it updates your recipe costs.
Pending Price Updates
4 changes waiting for review
Chicken Breast
+11.9%Sysco · $4.45/kg → $4.98/kg · 6 recipes affected
Mayonnaise
+8.9%Sysco · $14.00/4L → $15.25/4L · 3 recipes affected
Heavy Cream
+9.7%GFS · $6.20/L → $6.80/L · 4 recipes affected
Cheddar Cheese
+8.3%Sysco · $18.00/2kg → $19.50/2kg · 5 recipes affected
Complete feature set
From sub-recipes to shopping lists, ChefMargin covers the full kitchen workflow.
Build house sauces, marinades, prep batches, and nested recipes. Cost flows to every parent dish automatically.
Scale recipes up or down and generate your purchasing needs with one click.
See where costs are moving, which recipes need attention, and where margins are slipping.
Manage all your supplier contacts, link them to ingredients, and track purchase history.
Organize ingredients and recipes into categories to keep everything easy to find.
Every ingredient, recipe, and receipt is scoped to your account. Your data stays yours.
Bulk-import your existing ingredient list from a spreadsheet to get started fast.
Turn a menu photo into draft recipes and ingredients for review.
Why ChefMargin
Not because it looks good in a demo. Because it solves the actual problem: you don't know your real food cost, and every day that continues costs you money.
Full loop
from ingredient to approved price change
Ingredients, recipes, suppliers, receipts. That's how kitchens work. That's how ChefMargin is structured.
Zero
spreadsheets required
No training required. If you can manage a spreadsheet, you can use ChefMargin and get far better results.
Free
to start, no credit card
ChefMargin is free to start. When your business is ready to grow, straightforward pricing grows with you.