Chefy Core
The costing engine behind Chefy - products, recipes, menus and live margins, all connected, so the true cost of every dish or drink is always current.
The connected costing engine your menu runs on.
Chefy Core links everything that decides your food and pour cost - products, recipes and menus - into one live chain. Set it up once and the true cost of every dish or drink stays current on its own: no spreadsheets, no manual recalculation. It's the foundation the rest of Chefy builds on.
Everything connected
Products flow into recipes, recipes into menus - one chain, always in sync.
Always live
A price change anywhere re-costs every dish or drink it touches, instantly.
Numbers you can trust
Wastage and yields built in, so the cost is the real cost of the plate or glass.
How Chefy Core works
From a supplier price to a costed menu - the whole chain, connected.
Build a clean product catalogue
Bring in your products and supplier prices - bulk import or AI invoice extraction - as one standardised catalogue that keeps costing consistent across every venue.
- Bulk import or AI invoice extraction
- Standard products across venues
- Supplier prices kept current
Engineer your recipes
Build recipes from those products, nest sub-recipes to any depth, and bake in wastage and yields so each recipe costs what actually hits the plate or glass.
- Nested sub-recipes, any depth
- Wastage and yields built in
- Costed live as prices move
Turn recipes into a menu
Create the menu you sell from your recipes and see cost, margin and cost % on every item - synced live with Square.
- Cost, margin and cost % per item
- Synced live with Square
- Reprice and watch margin move
See live margins, everywhere
From then on, every supplier price change cascades through to your menu, so your margins are always current without anyone touching a spreadsheet.
- Prices cascade to every dish or drink
- Margins always current
- No manual recalculation
What Chefy Core delivers
2–5%
Lower food and pour cost
Once every dish or drink is costed live
Real-time
Re-costing
Price changes cascade the moment they land
~3 hrs
Saved each week
No more rebuilding cost spreadsheets
Everything in Chefy Core
Live costing
True cost the moment a price changes.
Learn moreRecipe engineering
Build nested, accurately costed recipes.
Learn moreMenu management
See the margin on every item, synced with Square.
Learn moreProduct management
One clean, standardised product catalogue.
Learn moreSuppliers
Supplier prices that flow straight to cost.
Learn moreOne connected platform
Chefy Core is the foundation. Add oversight and on-the-floor tools when you're ready - all sharing the same live data.
Built for
Chefy Core is for everyone who owns the numbers behind the menu.
Head chefs and bartenders
Costing and recipes live in spreadsheets and in your head.
One connected system where every recipe and menu costs itself.
Owners & operators
You can't trust margins built on stale, manual numbers.
Live, accurate costs you can actually run the business on.
Venue managers
Keeping costs and menus current is a constant manual chore.
The chain stays in sync on its own - you just run service.
Multi-venue groups
Every site costs the same dish or drink a different way.
Shared standards and recipes keep costing consistent everywhere.
Chefy Core FAQ
What does Chefy Core include?
The costing engine: products, recipes, menus, live costing, suppliers and the live margins that connect them. It's everything you need to know the true cost of every dish or drink.
Do I need the other products to use Core?
No. Chefy Core works on its own. Chefy Admin and Chefy Go add oversight and on-the-floor tools on top of the same data when you're ready.
Does it connect to my POS?
Yes. Menu items sync live with Square - new items import automatically and price changes flow straight through to your margins.
See Chefy Core on your menu
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll cost your dishes and drinks live, with your real numbers.