Kalkuva: Food Cost Calculator

Cost any dish in seconds. Start with a photo of your invoice and see what each dish costs at your own prices.

Kalkuva (formerly PlateCost) is the fastest way for chefs to cost a dish.

Paste your supplier's price list or upload a PDF, Excel or CSV. Your whole ingredient library gets priced in one go.

Type your ingredients in plain kitchen language and Kalkuva does the math: the grams, the cost per portion, the food cost percentage and your margin, instantly.

• Price list import: Paste a price list or upload a PDF, Excel or CSV file. The AI reads it and matches your ingredients. Every price updates in one tap, and big jumps get flagged for review first. • Cost-sheet import: Upload your old cost-price Excel (or Word, PDF or a photo of it) and bring in dishes, preps and prices at once. • Smart units: Don't know the weight of "1 tbsp of honey" or "1 slice of tomato"? The AI helper weighs it and shows its reasoning. Next time it already knows. • Food cost traffic light: Green under 30%, orange 30–35%, red over 35% (adjustable). See at a glance which dishes eat your margin. • One ingredient list, one price: Change a price once and every dish that uses it recalculates automatically. • Sub-recipes: Build a stock or a sauce once and reuse it; its cost flows through to every dish. • Allergens: Get an allergen suggestion per ingredient. • Available in 10 languages, from English to Japanese. • Works offline: Your recipes stay on your device. No account required. • Backup: Export your whole book to one file, or restore an earlier version. Free for everyone.

Calculating and editing in Kalkuva is free for 14 days, counted from your first cost price or your first import. After that you choose Pro (yearly or monthly) or Lifetime Pro (one-time purchase) to keep calculating and editing. Your dishes always stay visible, and you can delete them or make a backup at any time. You can ask Sous, the cost-price expert, 10 questions for free. Pro also syncs your recipes and prices across devices. The yearly plan has its own 14-day free trial on top of that, separate from the in-app trial.

Kalkuva is a calculator without stock management or dashboards. It's the fastest cost sheet in the kitchen.

Built by Kell Zwart, chef.

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