KitchenCost How-To

Short videos with written steps, in the same order as the app screens. Jump straight to the step you're stuck on.

How to calculate food cost per item, and what you make on each

3 min

Enter each ingredient at the price you paid and only the amount the recipe uses. KitchenCost works out the cost per piece, your food cost percentage and what you make on every one you sell. This guide follows one chocolate chip cookie from start to finish.
How to cost house-made syrups and sauces once, not per drink

3 min

If you make your own syrups, sauces or creams, their cost has to go into every drink that uses them, and when an ingredient price goes up you redo all of it. Set it up once as a sub-recipe instead. In each item you just pick it and enter the amount, and when a price changes you update one ingredient and every item that uses it follows.

Try it with one of your own menu items

Check the help center first. If that doesn't solve it, email help@kitchencost.app and tell us which step you're on, so we can help faster.