Ingredient Quick add
Add supplier items directly to your ingredient library faster
Your ingredient library should not start with hours of copying and pasting supplier items into spreadsheets. Supplier Quick Add turns supplier page information into clean, ready-to-review ingredient drafts, including product names, pack sizes, units, supplier details, and prices. Review the fields, make any changes, and save them directly into Chef’s Food Cost Calculator without rebuilding everything by hand.
From supplier page to ingredient library in seconds
Every recipe, batch, menu, catering event, and inventory record starts with your ingredient library. Supplier Quick Add helps you capture supplier item details and pricing faster, so those ingredients can support the rest of your Chef’s Food Cost Calculator workflow. Once your ingredients are saved, you can use them to build recipes, calculate batch costs, price menus, plan events, track inventory, and make better decisions with cleaner cost data.
A faster capture option for supplier items
Chef’s Food Cost Calculator already gives you multiple ways to build your ingredient library, including manual entry, Excel import, and invoice upload. Supplier Quick Add adds another option for the moments when you are browsing supplier pages and want to save an item quickly. Use Product Capture to select a full supplier product card, or use Text Capture to highlight supplier text and let the extension organize it into a draft. Supplier Quick Add will attempt to capture every available field, including product name, supplier, pack size, quantity, unit, category, and price, so adding ingredients is faster when supplier prices are changing and your menus need to stay up to date.
Capture a full product card
Use Product Capture to click a supplier product card and pull in the item details available on the page.
Highlight supplier text
Check the ingredient name, supplier, category, quantity, unit, pack size, and price before adding it to your library.
Review before saving
Supplier Quick Add attempts to capture every available field, including product name, supplier, category, quantity, unit, pack size, and price. You stay in control by reviewing the draft before saving.
Save directly to your library
Once the draft looks right, save it as an ingredient so it becomes available inside Chef’s Food Cost Calculator.
Keep menus up to date faster
When supplier costs shift, you can capture updated item details faster and keep your recipes, menus, batches, events, and inventory working from cleaner cost data.
Supplier Quick Add is not replacing the ways you already add ingredients. It gives gives you one more practical option for keeping their ingredient library current: capture supplier item details from the pages you already use, review the draft, and save it when ready. Adding ingredients has never been easier when your pricing needs to keep up with a fast-changing market.
Save once. Use it across your entire workflow.
In Chef’s Food Cost Calculator, your ingredient library is more than a place to store supplier items. It is the foundation that connects your recipes, batches, menus, catering events, inventory, and pricing tools. When an ingredient is added or updated, that cost data can flow into the rest of your workspace, helping you build recipes faster, review menu pricing, prepare event costing, and keep food cost decisions closer to your current supplier prices. Supplier Quick Add gives you one more fast way to get that ingredient data into the system, so the rest of your workflow has cleaner information to work from.
Quick answers before you install
What is the main purpose of Supplier Quick Add?
Supplier Quick Add gives chefs a faster way to bring ingredients into Chef’s Food Cost Calculator. Instead of manually entering every product name, supplier, pack size, unit, and price from scratch, you can capture the information from a supplier page, review it as an ingredient draft, and save it directly into your ingredient library.
Is Supplier Quick Add free to use?
Supplier Quick Add is free to install, but it works with an active Chef’s Food Cost Calculator Web Access subscription. Once you are signed in with an active account, you can capture supplier items, review the drafts, and save them directly into your ingredient library.
Why does this matter for food cost?
Because ingredients power the rest of your workflow. Cleaner ingredient data helps support better recipe costing, menu pricing, event planning, and inventory decisions.
What does Product Capture do?
Product Capture lets you select a supplier product card and attempts to pull available item details into an ingredient draft.
What does Text Capture do?
Text Capture lets you highlight supplier text manually and send that information into a ready-to-review ingredient draft.
Do I review the ingredient before saving it?
Yes. You can check and edit the captured fields before saving the ingredient to your library.
Add Ingredients while you place your orders
Capture supplier product details as you browse, review the draft, and save items –
directly into your Chef’s Food Cost Calculator ingredient library.