Start free
A$0/ forever
Your first core venue - owner admin and team seats included, at no cost.
- Core costing & recipes
- Bulk product import
- Wastage recording
- Real-time costing updates
Recipe costing & menu engineering
Costing, procurement and service that stay in sync
Chefy turns recipe cost and sales data into clear decisions about which menu items actually make money - for multi-venue hospitality groups.
Australian-builtSquare-firstBuilt by chefs
chefy — overview live
Braised lamb shankre-costed $11.54/kgAvg margin68.2%Pumpkin salad basere-costed $18.98/kgWaste this week$214.80House mayore-costed $5.97/kgRecipes re-costed today14Burger basere-costed $4.29/kgAvg food cost27.5%
Results
Real results across multi-venue groups
2–5%
Lower costs
10–15%
Less waste
$50K+
Saved per year
2–3 mo
Payback to ROI
Solutions
Back of house, front of house. One platform.
Chefy speaks both languages. See how it works for the kitchen, the bar, or both together:
The platform
Made for how your whole team works
Core features
Know your true menu costs
Chefy Core simplifies menu costing with wastage recording, nested recipes, standard products, and approval workflows. Build complex dishes and drinks effortlessly with linked sub-recipes.
WastageCost tracking
NestedRecipe building
StandardProduct consistency
WorkflowApprovals & proposals
Chefy Core synced
Admin & analytics
Control and insight across every venue
Chefy Admin gives owners and managers oversight across the whole group: performance analytics, contribution margin, approvals, and audit logs - all in one place.
AnalyticsSales & margin
Multi-venueGroup oversight
ApprovalsControl flows
Audit logsFull traceability
Chefy Admin synced
On the floor
Run service from anywhere
Chefy Go puts production and stock at your team's fingertips - mobile-first tools for prepping, recording wastage, and counting stock right on the floor.
Mobile-firstAny device
ProductionPrep & batch
WastageRecord on the spot
StocktakeCount on the floor
Chefy Go synced
How it works
From setup to savings
Prices flow in from invoices, your POS, and your recipes. The engine cascades every change straight through to live menu costs, alerts, and reports.
Sources
AI Invoice Processing
Upload supplier invoices to extract prices automatically
POS Integration
Connect your POS to automatically inject sales and menu items
Recipe Building
Create recipes with ingredients and sub-recipes
Costing Engine
Product prices cascade through recipes into menu items. When one price changes, costs update instantly across everything downstream.
Results
Real-Time Costing
Menu item cost updates as prices change
Threshold Alerts
Alerts when margins breach your targets
Performance Analytics
Sales velocity and contribution margin analysis
Automated Reports
Daily reports with key insights and trends
How you'll use it
Up and running in five steps
chefy — add your products live
chefy — build your recipes live
chefy — add your menu items live
chefy — sales flow in from square live
chefy — see your results live
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Get your products and prices in - without the data entry.
Upload a supplier invoice and Chefy's AI reads it line by line, pulling out every product, pack size and price for you. Bulk-import a whole supplier catalogue in minutes, and standard products keep naming and units consistent across venues.
Turn products into accurately costed recipes.
Create recipes from your products and nest sub-recipes as many levels deep as your kitchen or bar actually works - a sauce inside a dish or drink inside a set menu. Unit conversions are automatic, wastage is built into the cost, and every recipe re-costs the moment an ingredient price changes.
Build the menu you actually sell.
Create menu items from your recipes - or auto-populate them straight from Square, matched 1:1 to what you sell on the floor. Every item shows its live cost, sale price, cost % and contribution margin, so you see what makes money before the menu is printed.
Connect Square and let the data flow.
With Square connected, your live sales flow into Chefy automatically and link to each item's true cost. No exports, no reconciling - what you sold and what it cost stay in sync, all the time.
Act on the numbers and protect your margin.
Now everything connects: live margins on every item, alerts when something breaches your targets, sales-velocity and contribution-margin analytics, and automated daily reports. You see exactly where profit is won or lost - and what to do next.
One connected platform
It all runs off the same live numbers
Know your true cost on every recipe and menu item
Build recipes the way your kitchen or bar works and watch every cost update the moment a supplier price changes — cascaded through sub-recipes into live menu margins, with AI reading prices straight off your invoices.
- Live costing — supplier prices cascade into menu margins instantly
- Recipe engineering — nested sub-recipes, any depth, automatic unit conversions
- AI invoice capture — prices read and updated for you
- Cost %, margin and price on every menu item
Costing live
Turn POS sales into decisions about what makes money
Your Square sales sync automatically and link to true cost, so you see contribution margin, sales velocity and your best and worst performers — with AI insights and alerts the moment an item breaches target.
- Square sales synced and linked to cost automatically
- Menu engineering — spot the stars and the margin-eroders
- Threshold alerts and automated daily reports
- Daily AI insights on what changed and what to do
Sales & margin live
Control what comes in and what gets wasted
Run fast stocktakes from any device, record wastage on the spot, and order against live cost and stock — with every supplier, price and delivery day in one place.
- Stocktake — fast counts, live stock on hand
- Wastage — recorded on the spot, costed automatically
- Procurement — order against real cost and need
- Suppliers — catalogues, price history and delivery days
Inventory & supply live
Run every venue to the same standard, with a full paper trail
Share recipes and standards across sites, give every role the right access, and keep approvals and a complete audit log behind every change — so owners get group-wide oversight without re-keying anything.
- Multi-venue — shared recipes and standards across sites
- Roles & permissions — the right access for every role
- Approvals & audit — every change logged
- Group-wide oversight of cost and margin
Control & oversight live
See everything Chefy can do
Costing, sales, inventory and control are just the start. Explore the full feature set — from AI invoice capture and daily insights to Chefy Go on the floor and live Square integration.
- AI invoice capture and daily insights
- Chefy Go — mobile tools for the floor
- Live Square POS integration
Everything live
Pricing
Find the setup that fits
Start free, add the modules each venue needs, or scale across a whole group - every plan grows from the same core.
Add modules
FromA$15/ module / month
Switch on only the workflows each venue needs - Sales, Stocktake, Procurement or Chefy Go.
- Sales: POS, margins & costing
- Stocktake: faster, accurate counts
- Procurement: supplier ordering
- Chefy Go: mobile for the floor
Organization
Custom
Scale across venues with modules and extra seats - automatic discounts apply as you grow.
- Volume discounts on venues & seats
- Org-wide admins & governance
- All modules across every venue
- Chefy Rewards loyalty discounts
Prices are shown in Australian dollar (AUD) and will be converted to your local currency at invoice time, at the exchange rate at that time.
Why Chefy
Built for busy kitchens and bars
Built by chefs
Designed around how kitchens work.
Australian-built
Local product and support.
Square-first
Live POS integration with Square.
Real-time costing
Costs update as prices change.
Testimonials
Trusted by hospitality teams
“I tried other costing programs but as a chef I found them confusing and they couldn't handle nested recipes properly, which meant the numbers were never accurate enough to trust. Chefy was easy from the get go. I could nest recipes the way I actually build them in the kitchen, and the costings finally reflected reality.”
“Chefy has completely transformed how we manage our kitchen operations. Recipe costing that used to take hours now takes minutes.”
“We finally know our real food cost. In the first month we found nearly 4% of margin we'd been leaving on the table.”
“Setup took an afternoon. Uploading our supplier invoices and watching the catalogue build itself was the moment it clicked.”
“Costing a new menu used to be a weekend job. Now it's done before service.”
“Live margins on every dish meant we caught three loss-making specials in our first week.”
“Rolling the same recipes and standards across all five venues finally feels effortless.”
“The Square integration just works - sales and costs line up without me touching a spreadsheet.”
“Stocktake nights are half as long and twice as accurate.”
“Our suppliers change prices constantly. Chefy keeps every recipe honest automatically.”
“I can finally see which menu items actually make money - it changed how we write the menu.”
“Wastage tracking alone paid for the subscription in its first month.”