Built from 20 years on the line — not spreadsheets

Turn Your Menu
Into Profit.

PlateCost gives restaurant operators real-time cost intelligence across food and beverage — recipes, margins, and pricing in one place, with no spreadsheets required.

Built from 20 years on the line — not a template. Every feature comes from real kitchens, real margins, real pressure.
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Seared Duck Breast
Ingredient Cost$6.40
Yield Adjusted Cost$7.15
Menu Price$28.00
Food Cost %25.5% HEALTHY
The Real Cost of Guessing

Most restaurants don't lose money on bad recipes. They lose it on bad math.

Food and beverage costs shift weekly. Without a system to catch it, your margins erode quietly — one invoice, one price hike, one untracked pour at a time.

Prices change, menus don’t

Your supplier raises beef prices 12% and your menu price stays the same for months — because nobody’s watching it in real time.

Silent margin loss

Spreadsheets fall out of date

By the time someone updates the costing sheet, three more invoices have come in. The "current" food cost is already wrong.

Always behind

Beverage cost is a blind spot

Pour cost rarely gets the same attention as food cost — even though over-pouring and shrink quietly eat into bar margins every shift.

Untracked pour cost

PlateCost watches your margins so you don\u2019t have to chase them after the fact.

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See Your Numbers

Forecast Your PlateCost ROI

Enter a few numbers from your own kitchen and bar to see what catching margin leaks early could be worth to you.

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Conservative (1.5%)Average (3%)Aggressive (5%)
Estimated Annual Impact
$14,035
Based on the numbers you entered
Cost savings from caught price changes$7,920
Time saved on manual entry (hrs/yr)218 hrs
Value of time saved$6,115
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Estimates based on industry-average food cost variance and typical manual-entry time savings reported by early users. Actual results vary by operation.

Simple Pricing

Start Free. Upgrade When You're Ready.

No multi-site contracts, no sales calls required. Pick the plan that matches how you run your kitchen and bar today.

Starter
$0 /month
For single-location owners just getting their costs under control.
  • Unlimited recipes & plating photos
  • Manual ingredient & cost entry
  • Staff prep view (no cost data shown)
  • 3 free invoice scans to try
  • COGS dashboard
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Pro
$59 /month
For owners ready to stop guessing and start tracking food + beverage margins in real time.
  • Everything in Starter
  • 50 invoice scans / month
  • Full COGS & margin dashboard
  • Beverage / pour cost tracking
  • Price-change alerts
Try Pro Free for 30 Days
Business
$149 /month
For multi-location operators and caterers who need it all, unlimited.
  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited invoice scans
  • Multi-location cost comparison
  • Auto ingredient matching
  • Priority support
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Stop guessing what your menu actually costs you.

Set up your first recipe in under 10 minutes — no credit card required.