Free recipe costing software for food businesses
Dishboard costs your recipes, calculates food cost percentage and gross margin, and tells you what to charge, across dine-in and delivery. Every feature is free, with no card required. We built it to help small food businesses protect their margins.
What recipe costing software does
Costing a menu by hand or in a spreadsheet works until a price changes. Then every dish that uses that ingredient is wrong, and you have to chase the formulas. Recipe costing software keeps one source of truth for your ingredient prices and recalculates every dish the moment something moves.
How it works
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Add your ingredients once
Enter or quick-add your ingredients and the price you pay. Units, yield, and packaging are handled for you.
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Build your recipes
Add ingredients and prep recipes to each dish. Cost per portion, food cost %, and gross margin calculate live.
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Price with confidence
See the suggested price to hit your target margin, and compare dine-in to DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub after commission.
Built for every kind of food business
Why it is free
Margins are tight in food, and good costing tools have historically cost money small operators do not have. Dishboard is free so any kitchen can price properly. If it helps yours, you can support it with an optional donation.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Dishboard really free?
- Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no plan limits and no paid tier. We built it to help small food businesses run on tighter margins. If it helps yours, you can support it with an optional donation.
- What does recipe costing software do?
- It turns your ingredient prices and recipes into an accurate cost for every dish, then shows food cost percentage, gross margin, and a suggested selling price. When an ingredient price changes, every dish that uses it recalculates automatically, which is the part spreadsheets make painful.
- Do I need a credit card to start?
- No. There is no card required and no subscription. Sign up and start costing your menu in minutes.
- Can I import my existing ingredient list?
- Yes. You can import ingredients and supplies from a CSV, or quick-add common ingredients from a built-in starter list with units pre-filled, so you only enter your prices.
- What kinds of food business is it for?
- Restaurants, cafes, bakeries, food trucks, and delivery kitchens. Anything that buys ingredients and sells dishes. It handles dine-in and delivery pricing, packaging, prep recipes, and yield.
Cost your menu in Dishboard, free
Every feature, no card required. Start costing your first dish in minutes.