Food Cost & Recipes: Plate Pro

Take control of your food cost. Plate Pro delivers accurate, real-time costing across every recipe and menu, so you protect margins and price each dish with confidence.

Know your true plate cost, on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Plate Pro is the native Apple app for food costing. Change one supplier price and every recipe, sub-recipe and menu re-costs itself, instantly. No spreadsheets to maintain. No browser tab to babysit. No account required.

THE COST CASCADE Ingredients feed your recipes. Recipes feed your menus. When an ingredient price changes, Plate Pro flows that change through everything it touches, so your food cost % and gross profit are always live and accurate. It is the one job a spreadsheet never gets right.

MENU ENGINEERING See every dish plotted by popularity and profit: Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs, so you know what to promote, reprice or cut. Build menus from your recipes and watch the margin update live.

WORK WITH AN AI ASSISTANT Connect Claude to Plate Pro on your Mac and ask about your numbers in plain language. The built-in assistant can read your suppliers, ingredients, recipes, costs, events, to-dos, notes and waste reports, and create or edit them for you, over a private local connection. Great for processing invoices and updating supplier prices automatically. (macOS)

BUILT FOR THE MAC, AND YOUR POCKET A real desktop app for back-office work: fast, full-screen, keyboard-quick. Plus iPhone and iPad for costing on the line or at the supplier. Everything syncs over iCloud, and it all works offline.

WHAT YOU CAN DO • Cost recipes and nested sub-recipes with a live cost cascade • Engineer your menus by popularity and profit • Track supplier prices with full history and % change • See food cost %, gross profit and suggested price on every recipe • Track inventory and log wastage with reasons, photos and cost • Keep ingredient reference data: units, conversions, allergens and par levels • Plan ahead with a built-in planner, to-dos and notes • Import ingredient prices by CSV • Print recipe books, plating sheets and forms • Run multiple businesses from one app

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No tracking. The developer collects no data. Your recipes and numbers stay on your device and in your private iCloud. The AI assistant is optional and runs over a local connection you control.

START FREE, OR SUBSCRIBE Start free and cost your first recipes, with no trial clock. Unlock unlimited ingredients, recipes and suppliers, plus multi-business and recipe cost history, with a subscription. Or buy Plate Pro once and own it for life.

Built by hospitality people. Available in 30 languages (new translations, machine-assisted and still being refined; tell us via support if a phrase reads oddly).

Know your plate cost. Protect your margin. Get Plate Pro.

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