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For cafés, restaurants, food trucks and dark kitchens that sell dine-in, takeaway and delivery — and want to know which dishes pay for the kitchen and which only keep it busy. It is one tool for one job: the economics of your menu, recipe by recipe, using your own prices and sales.
Why this and not a recipe-costing spreadsheet: besides food cost, it finds the kitchen station that limits you and the contribution of each dish per minute of that station, and builds a production plan in whole portions within your station minutes and limits. Yield is applied exactly once per recipe line, and a new ingredient price recalculates every dependent recipe and sub-recipe with the price that keeps each dish's previous contribution. One payment, no subscription; no bank, accounting or marketplace connection; your data stays on your device; no AI — every result is an exact decimal calculation with “How it is calculated”, in 8 languages and any currency.
You enter your ingredients as you buy them (pack size, pack price, usable yield, tax and currency), your recipes with sub-recipes such as sauces or prepped fries, batch and service times, packaging per channel, then prices, portions sold, discounts, refunds and waste per dish and channel, the fees and sales tax of each channel, your fixed costs and the minutes each kitchen station has.
You get the contribution of every dish in every channel, the kitchen bottleneck and contribution per bottleneck minute, a popularity/contribution grouping with its thresholds shown, a production plan in whole portions from an exact search, a shopping list in whole packs, and what new ingredient prices or portion sizes change — with the price that keeps each dish's previous contribution. No AI — exact, traceable calculations. One-time payment, no subscription. It works on a phone and a computer, and your data stays on your device.
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Questions
Who is it for?
Owners and chefs of small restaurants, cafés, food trucks and delivery kitchens who want each dish's real contribution per channel and per kitchen minute, without an ERP or a connection to their till.
How does it handle trimming loss without counting it twice?
You enter the usable yield on the ingredient once. On each recipe line you say whether the quantity is usable (after trimming — the yield is applied) or as bought (before trimming — it is not). The cost card shows both quantities.
Does it tell me how guests will react to a price change?
No. It shows the price that keeps a dish's previous contribution and what your own quantity assumptions give. It never forecasts demand or guest behaviour.
What does it not calculate?
Demand forecasts, income or payroll taxes, VAT returns, automatic exchange rates, fluid-ounce or cup conversions, food safety, allergens and nutrition. Fees are treated as not returned on refunds, and the plan works in whole portions per dish and channel.
Can I try it first?
Yes. The free demo at /tools/menu-profit-planner uses a fictional bistro with twelve ingredients, two sub-recipes, five dishes, three channels and four stations, and every screen and calculation works there. Your own projects, file import and saved work open after purchase.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser, on your device. Nothing is sent to us. You can download a JSON backup of any project and restore it on another device.
Business license for use in your own business. No resale or redistribution. Opens in your browser right after payment, on phone and computer. Your figures stay on your device. No physical item.
Menu Profit Planner
Find what each dish really earns per channel and per minute of your busiest kitchen station, plan production within your limits, and see what an ingredient price rise does to the whole menu.
- One-time purchase
- Full version of this tool on the site plus an offline version to download. One payment. The offline copy works without a subscription.
- Access with PRO
- Full version on the site while your PRO is active. Export of your results and backups is included. The offline program is bought separately.
Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay
- Works in any country · your own currency
- Download link on the confirmation page and by email
- What you need: Any modern browser · phone and computer · PDF & CSV export · 8 languages
- Refund within 14 days, for any purchase
- Formats: Interactive tool in your browser — phone and computer; PDF & CSV export
Any purchase is refunded if you ask within 14 days of payment. Files that will not open, and anything that does not match its description, are refunded in full at any time, with no time limit.

