Features

Everything you need to cost recipes, protect margins, and price with confidence.

Powerful enough for a busy menu. Calm enough to use every day.

Cost menu items Manage ingredients and prep Understand margins Share and review

Manage ingredients and prep

Ingredients are costed the way kitchens actually use them: buy one way, use another, with yield handled clearly.

Ingredients & Supplies for food, packaging, and other cost items

Purchase quantity, purchase unit, purchase cost, usage unit, and optional yield %

Prep Recipes for sauces, doughs, dressings, marinades, and batch outputs

CSV Ingredient Import for bringing an existing spreadsheet into the workspace

Understand margins

The numbers stay practical and trustworthy, not finance-dashboard heavy.

Food cost % and gross profit per menu item

Gross Margin % for owners who think in profit terms

Delivery profitability across DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, or any custom channel

Price Update Impact when an ingredient price changes

Share and review

Keep owner numbers private while still giving the kitchen the recipe details they need.

Print-friendly Recipe Cards for staff

Costing Sheet and Recipe + Costs exports on Pro

Gentle insights for missing data, items above target, and prices that need review

Settings for currency, categories, and default target food cost

Focused by design

Dishboard does not try to run your whole restaurant.

The product stays useful because it is about recipe costing, menu margins, delivery profitability, and clean recipe output.

No POS

No inventory counts

No supplier ordering

No accounting

No payroll

No staff scheduling

Product flow

From scattered numbers to a menu item you can trust.

Build the cost, check the margin, compare channels, and save.

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Start with the mess

Supplier prices, packaging, and delivery fees drift away from the dish.

Dishboard keeps the real costs beside the menu item, so the calculation stays clear when numbers change.

Ingredient prices stay current

Packaging stays visible

Delivery assumptions stay tied to the item

Before Dishboard

Menu costing spreadsheet

Line	Value	Status
Chicken price	$6/kg?	old
Packaging	missing	gap
Delivery fee	25%?	check
Recipe card	separate	file

The numbers are there, but they live in different places. Dishboard brings them back to the item.

01 / 05

Start with the mess

Supplier prices, packaging, and delivery fees drift away from the dish.

Dishboard keeps the real costs beside the menu item, so the calculation stays clear when numbers change.

Ingredient prices stay current

Packaging stays visible

Delivery assumptions stay tied to the item

Before Dishboard

Menu costing spreadsheet

scattered

Line	Value	Status
Chicken price	$6/kg?	old
Packaging	missing	gap
Delivery fee	25%?	check
Recipe card	separate	file

The numbers are there, but they live in different places. Dishboard brings them back to the item.

02 / 05

Build the cost

Build one precise costing sheet for the item you sell.

Add ingredients, prep recipes, packaging, and extras in the same place. Buy in kg, use in grams, and see what each row adds to the cost.

Create ingredients inline

Use real units and yield

See every row's cost contribution

Recipe cost

Chicken Sandwich

one serving

Item	Unit cost	Qty	Cost
Chicken breast	$6.00 / kg	120 g	$0.72
Bread roll	$0.50 / piece	1 piece	$0.50
House mayo	$0.006 / g	30 g	$0.18
Kraft box	$0.15 / piece	1 piece	$0.15

Ingredient + unit cost + quantity used = cost in this item.

02 / 05

Build the cost

Build one precise costing sheet for the item you sell.

Add ingredients, prep recipes, packaging, and extras in the same place. Buy in kg, use in grams, and see what each row adds to the cost.

Create ingredients inline

Use real units and yield

See every row's cost contribution

Recipe cost

Chicken Sandwich

one serving

Item	Unit cost	Qty	Cost
Chicken breast	$6.00 / kg	120 g	$0.72
Bread roll	$0.50 / piece	1 piece	$0.50
House mayo	$0.006 / g	30 g	$0.18
Kraft box	$0.15 / piece	1 piece	$0.15

Ingredient + unit cost + quantity used = cost in this item.

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Check the margin

Cost, food cost %, gross margin, profit, and suggested price update live.

The summary follows the costing sheet, so it is clear whether the current price works or needs review.

Live summary while editing

Target food cost check

Clear guidance when data is missing

Live summary

Cost / portion

$1.80

Selling price

$9.50

Food cost

18.9%

Gross profit

$7.70

Below your 30% target

Suggested price stays at $9.50. If cost rises, the suggested price updates with it.

03 / 05

Check the margin

Cost, food cost %, gross margin, profit, and suggested price update live.

The summary follows the costing sheet, so it is clear whether the current price works or needs review.

Live summary while editing

Target food cost check

Clear guidance when data is missing

Live summary

Cost / portion

$1.80

Selling price

$9.50

Food cost

18.9%

Gross profit

$7.70

Below your 30% target

Suggested price stays at $9.50. If cost rises, the suggested price updates with it.

04 / 05

Compare channels

Compare dine-in, takeaway, and delivery before you price.

Partner commissions, packaging, discounts, and fixed fees can change the margin, even when the recipe cost looks healthy.

Partner-specific assumptions

Packaging and fees included

Profit shown side by side

Channel margin

Dine-in vs takeaway vs delivery

Channel	Price	Pack + fees	Profit
Dine-in	$10.00	$0.00	$6.80
Takeaway	$10.00	$0.45	$6.35
Delivery	$12.00	$3.65	$5.15

Delivery can have its own price, packaging, commission, payment fee, discount, and fixed cost assumptions.

04 / 05

Compare channels

Compare dine-in, takeaway, and delivery before you price.

Partner commissions, packaging, discounts, and fixed fees can change the margin, even when the recipe cost looks healthy.

Partner-specific assumptions

Packaging and fees included

Profit shown side by side

Channel margin

Dine-in vs takeaway vs delivery

partner fees included

Channel	Price	Pack + fees	Profit
Dine-in	$10.00	$0.00	$6.80
Takeaway	$10.00	$0.45	$6.35
Delivery	$12.00	$3.65	$5.15

Delivery can have its own price, packaging, commission, payment fee, discount, and fixed cost assumptions.

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Save the item

Save a menu item with the numbers ready to review.

Each saved item keeps the costing sheet, margin summary, channel comparison, and staff-facing recipe card together.

Owner numbers stay private

Recipe card for staff

Costing sheet for review

Ready to save

Menu itemChicken Sandwich

Cost per serving$1.80

Food cost18.9%

Delivery profit$5.15

Recipe Card ready

Staff-facing recipe cards hide costs. Owner-facing costing sheets keep the margin detail.

05 / 05

Save the item

Save a menu item with the numbers ready to review.

Each saved item keeps the costing sheet, margin summary, channel comparison, and staff-facing recipe card together.

Owner numbers stay private

Recipe card for staff

Costing sheet for review

Ready to save

Menu itemChicken Sandwich

Cost per serving$1.80

Food cost18.9%

Delivery profit$5.15

Recipe Card ready

Staff-facing recipe cards hide costs. Owner-facing costing sheets keep the margin detail.

Price impact

When one ingredient changes, every dish that uses it gets flagged.

Update a supplier price once. Dishboard recalculates every recipe it belongs to and flags which menu items are now outside your food cost target.

Update price in one place, not in every recipe
See which dishes are affected and by how much
Decide which prices to adjust before the margin slips

Ingredient price update

Chicken breast

$6.00/kgto$7.00/kg

Affected menu items

Chicken Sandwich

18.9%21.0%Review

Chicken Burger

22.1%24.4%Review

House Salad

14.2%14.2%

Chicken increased from $6/kg to $7/kg. 2 menu items may need price review.

Start costing your menu.

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