Menu costing software that shows what actually makes money
Cost, sale price, cost % and contribution margin on every item. Spot the stars and the dogs before the menu is printed.
You know what sells. Do you know what earns?
Most venues can name their best sellers from memory. Far fewer can name their best earners, because popularity and profit are not the same thing. Without cost, cost percent and contribution margin side by side, the menu gets priced on gut feel, and the dish everyone orders might be the one quietly losing you money.
✕ Priced on gut feel
- Best sellers picked by popularity, not profit
- Cost percent guessed, never measured
- Re-pricing decided without margin in view
- Stars and dogs look identical on the menu
✓ Priced on real margin
- Cost, price, cost percent and margin on every item
- Contribution margin ranks the real earners
- Re-price and watch the margin move live
- Stars and dogs obvious before you print
From menu to margin
Cost every item to the cent
Every dish and drink is costed from live supplier prices, with nested recipes and wastage included.
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Braised Lamb Shank
Ingredients
8.7 kg
/
$74.80
Wastage
1.2 kg
/
$8.04
By product
0 g
/
$0.00
Yield
6.5 kg
/
$66.76
Ingredients
$74.80
Yield
6.5 kg
Cost / Unit
$11.50/kg
Show all ingredients
Break down each sub-recipe into its ingredients
Lamb Shank (v12)
Amount
3.8 kg
Cost
$57.00
Percentage
76.21%
Red Wine Jus (v12)
Amount
200 g
Cost
$2.40
Percentage
3.21%
Water
Amount
4 kg
Cost
$0.00
Percentage
0.00%
Diced onions
Amount
250 g
Cost
$9.55
Percentage
12.77%
Bay Leaves 200g (v13)
Amount
10 g
Cost
$0.16
Percentage
0.21%
Tomato Paste tin (v8)
Amount
220 g
Cost
$3.90
Percentage
5.21%
Galic Cloves 1kg peeled (v5)
Amount
200 g
Cost
$1.78
Percentage
2.38%
Recipe Graph
02/06 - 01/07
$74.80 -2.96%
Recipe Map
See cost, price and margin together
Cost, sale price, cost percent and contribution margin on every item, ranked so the stars and the dogs are obvious at a glance.
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Classic Burger
Window 2026-05-26
Items sold
42
vs prior day
Gross Margin
$11.61
vs prior day
COGS
44.7%
vs prior day
Re-price and watch margin move
Change a price and the margin updates instantly, so you can test a re-price before it ever reaches the printed menu.
Menu Items (39 items)
Cost
$9.39
Sale Price
$21.00
Cost Percent
44.73%
Cost
$6.80
Sale Price
$18.00
Cost Percent
37.78%
Cost
$6.72
Sale Price
$21.00
Cost Percent
32.00%
Cost
$8.24
Sale Price
$26.00
Cost Percent
31.69%
Cost
$7.76
Sale Price
$26.00
Cost Percent
29.86%
Cost
$8.05
Sale Price
$26.99
Cost Percent
29.82%
Cost
$7.12
Sale Price
$23.90
Cost Percent
29.79%
Cost
$6.61
Sale Price
$22.50
Cost Percent
29.38%
Cost
$5.29
Sale Price
$18.00
Cost Percent
29.36%
Cost
$12.46
Sale Price
$42.90
Cost Percent
29.06%
Cost
$2.87
Sale Price
$10.00
Cost Percent
28.69%
Cost
$1.40
Sale Price
$4.90
Cost Percent
28.57%
Cost
$1.40
Sale Price
$4.90
Cost Percent
28.57%
Cost
$1.40
Sale Price
$4.90
Cost Percent
28.57%
Cost
$1.40
Sale Price
$4.90
Cost Percent
28.57%
Cost
$6.82
Sale Price
$24.00
Cost Percent
28.42%
Cost
$8.20
Sale Price
$28.90
Cost Percent
28.36%
Cost
$7.01
Sale Price
$24.99
Cost Percent
28.07%
Cost
$2.40
Sale Price
$8.90
Cost Percent
26.97%
Cost
$2.40
Sale Price
$8.90
Cost Percent
26.97%
Cost
$6.00
Sale Price
$22.60
Cost Percent
26.55%
Cost
$5.00
Sale Price
$18.90
Cost Percent
26.46%
Cost
$3.14
Sale Price
$12.00
Cost Percent
26.17%
Cost
$2.34
Sale Price
$9.00
Cost Percent
25.97%
Cost
$4.36
Sale Price
$17.00
Cost Percent
25.66%
Cost
$2.55
Sale Price
$10.00
Cost Percent
25.50%
Cost
$7.23
Sale Price
$28.90
Cost Percent
25.03%
Cost
$6.49
Sale Price
$27.99
Cost Percent
23.20%
Cost
$5.00
Sale Price
$22.90
Cost Percent
21.83%
Cost
$4.57
Sale Price
$21.00
Cost Percent
21.76%
Cost
$4.00
Sale Price
$18.90
Cost Percent
21.16%
Cost
$6.85
Sale Price
$32.80
Cost Percent
20.90%
Cost
$3.81
Sale Price
$18.99
Cost Percent
20.06%
Cost
$3.67
Sale Price
$20.00
Cost Percent
18.33%
Cost
$2.50
Sale Price
$14.00
Cost Percent
17.86%
Cost
$3.23
Sale Price
$19.00
Cost Percent
17.01%
Cost
$3.14
Sale Price
$19.00
Cost Percent
16.54%
Cost
$2.29
Sale Price
$17.00
Cost Percent
13.47%
Cost
$2.35
Sale Price
$18.00
Cost Percent
13.07%
Menu Item Sales & COGS
Last 28 daysEngineer on what actually sells
Square sales velocity meets contribution margin, so you build the menu around real demand, not guesswork.
What menu engineering is worth
2 to 5%
higher menu margin
engineering on real contribution margin
~3 hrs
saved per venue weekly
no manual menu re-costing
real time
margin on every item
updated the moment a price moves
What does the work
Menu management
Cost, price and margin on every item side by side, with menu engineering.
Learn moreLive costing
Item costs that update the moment a supplier price changes.
Learn moreSales data
Square sales velocity tied to contribution margin, item by item.
Learn moreRecipe engineering
Nested sub-recipes and batches, all costed into the dish.
Learn moreAnalytics & alerts
Real-time margin alerts when an item breaches its target.
Learn moreReporting
Menu performance reports with stars and dogs ranked.
Learn moreAll features
See all featuresOne engine behind every menu price
Prices flow in from invoices, Square and your recipes. The engine cascades every change into live menu costs, margins and reports.
Sources
AI invoice processing
Upload supplier invoices and Chefy extracts the prices automatically.
Square integration
Connect Square to inject sales and menu items automatically.
Recipe building
Build recipes with ingredients and nested 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 the moment a price changes.
Threshold alerts
Alerts when a dish breaches its margin target.
Performance analytics
Sales velocity and contribution margin, dish by dish.
Automated reports
Daily reports with the numbers that moved.
Menu costing that runs the whole venue
Menu engineering isn't a back-office task. It touches recipes, stock and the till. Chefy keeps menu costs, stock counts and Square sales on one platform, so the margin you engineer is the margin you actually make.
Menu costing software FAQ
Does Chefy design or print menus?
No. Chefy is menu costing and engineering software. It tells you what every item costs, earns and should be priced at. It does not design, publish or print the menu itself.
What is menu engineering?
Menu engineering ranks every item by profit and popularity, so you can see your stars (high margin, high selling) and your dogs (low margin, low selling), then re-price or rework the menu around what actually earns.
How does Chefy work out contribution margin?
Chefy costs every item from live supplier prices, then sets that against the sale price to show cost, cost percent and contribution margin. Connect Square and it ties margin to how many of each item actually sell.
Is Chefy a QR menu or online ordering system?
No. Chefy does not take orders or show menus to diners. It works behind the scenes on the cost and margin of the menu you already sell.
Can I test a price change before committing?
Yes. Change a price in Chefy and the margin updates instantly, so you can see the effect on every affected item before it reaches the printed menu.
Venues that engineer their menu with Chefy
“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.”
“Wastage tracking alone paid for the subscription in its first month.”
“Costing a new menu used to be a weekend job. Now it's done before service.”
“Rolling the same recipes and standards across all five venues finally feels effortless.”
“Stocktake nights are half as long and twice as accurate.”
“I can finally see which menu items actually make money - it changed how we write the menu.”
See what your menu really earns
Get in touch and we'll cost and rank a few of your real menu items live, and show you the stars, the dogs and the re-price opportunities.