Restaurant Food Cost with AI: Complete Costing in 2 Minutes
Calculate the exact cost of each dish instantly. Waste control, optimal selling price and profitability analysis to maximise your restaurant's profit.
Stop losing money from uncontrolled food cost.
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AI Food Cost vs. Excel and Manual Methods
Discover how much time and money you lose doing food cost manually.
The food cost tools your restaurant needs
Total food cost control: from ingredient to net margin per dish.
Automatic AI Food Costing
Enter ingredients, weights and supplier prices. AI calculates the exact food cost of each dish in seconds.
Waste Control
Calculate real waste by ingredient type (cleaning, cooking, evaporation) for precise food cost.
Optimal Selling Price
AI calculates the ideal selling price based on your target margin, market and restaurant positioning.
Profitability Analysis
Identify which dishes give you the most margin and which are costing you money. Optimise your menu with real data.
Price Updates
When an ingredient cost rises, AI automatically recalculates all affected food costings.
Food Cost Dashboard
Visualise your restaurant's overall food cost, by category and by dish. Detect deviations instantly.
Who uses AI Chef Pro food costing?
Professionals who have stopped losing money from poorly calculated food cost.
Chef-Owner
Controls the food cost of their menu without depending on accountants or endless spreadsheets.
Operations Director
Monitors food cost across multiple venues from a single dashboard with real-time data.
Head Chef
Updates food costings when supplier prices change without redoing the whole process.
Controller or Finance
Has for the first time exact control of each dish cost and its impact on the P&L.
Uncontrolled food cost is the margin you're giving away
Most restaurants lose between 5% and 15% of potential profit due to poorly calculated food cost. AI Chef Pro gives you the exact control you need to protect your margin.
- Complete food costing of any dish in under 2 minutes
- Waste control by ingredient type and cooking technique
- Optimal selling price calculated with your target margin
- Automatic recalculation when supplier prices change
- Identification of your most and least profitable dishes
- Global food cost dashboard with deviation alerts
"We had been doing food costings in Excel for years. With AI Chef Pro they're all updated in real time and we identified 4 dishes that were losing us money without us knowing. We recovered the investment in three months."
Roberto Fernández
Operations Director, Grupo La Dehesa, Madrid
Start controlling your food cost from €10
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Frequently asked questions about restaurant food cost with AI
What is a restaurant food costing?
A food costing is the detailed calculation of the production cost of a dish: ingredients, weights, waste and supplier price. It is the basis of food cost and selling price. AI Chef Pro generates it automatically with AI in under 2 minutes.
How does AI Chef Pro calculate the food cost of a dish?
You enter the ingredients, weights per portion and supplier prices. AI automatically calculates the gross cost, applies the waste percentages for each ingredient and gives you the real net cost of the dish.
Can I calculate the selling price with AI Chef Pro?
Yes. Once the food cost is calculated, AI suggests the optimal selling price based on your target margin (typically 25%-35% food cost ratio for restaurants), also considering your restaurant's positioning.
What happens when an ingredient price rises?
AI Chef Pro automatically recalculates all food costings that include that ingredient. In seconds you know which dishes have become more expensive, how much the margin has changed and whether you need to adjust selling prices.
Start controlling your food cost with AI today
Over 9,572 restaurants already use AI Chef Pro to calculate food cost and protect their margin.
