Built by a chef for real kitchen and catering work
Food Cost Calculator was created from real kitchen experience to help food operations manage recipe costing, pricing, inventory, prep, and event planning in one connected system across web and mobile with less manual work and more clarity.
FOUNDER STORY
From prep cook to chef to software builder
At 18, I started working in banquets as a prep cook and did not even know what parsley was. Over the years, I learned kitchen operations from the ground up, worked across the different stations of a restaurant, grew into a chef role, and gained firsthand experience managing high-volume banquet execution and multi-million-dollar food operations. That background shaped how I think about prep, production, food cost, pricing, inventory, and event workflow — and ultimately led me to build Food Cost Calculator.
Later, I also moved into software development. Food Cost Calculator came out of that journey: the kind of system I know would have helped me earlier on by keeping costing, prep, pricing, inventory, and event work more connected and easier to manage day to day.
WHY I BUILT IT
Because food operations need more than disconnected tools
I built Food Cost Calculator to solve a problem I understood firsthand: important kitchen and catering work is often managed in too many separate places.
Costing might live in one spreadsheet. Prep notes in another. Inventory in a clipboard count. Event planning in separate paperwork. Pricing decisions in memory or rough math. That separation creates extra work, missed visibility, and too much room for guesswork.
Food Cost Calculator was built to help bring ingredient costs, recipes, prep, pricing, inventory, event planning, and documents into one connected system that supports the way food businesses actually operate.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
More than a simple food cost calculator
All in one platform
Keep costing, recipes, prep, inventory, pricing, unit conversion, event planning, and documents together in one platform instead of piecing them across separate tools.
Built for the work behind the menu
Designed to support real kitchen and catering work — from recipe costing and unit conversion to prep, inventory, event planning, and operational review.
Built from real kitchen experience
Food Cost Calculator was shaped by hands-on kitchen and banquet experience, not by trying to guess how food operations work from the outside.
Mobile and web together
Use the Android app for quick updates and everyday work, then move into Web Access when you need more room for planning, review, and control.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
A better system for the work behind food service
The goal was never to build just another calculator.
It was to build a system that helps reduce manual work, save time, improve visibility, and make costing, pricing, prep, inventory, and event planning easier to manage with more confidence. Because when the workflow is more connected, the operation is easier to run.