Stop Guessing Food Costs.
Protect Every Cent on Every Plate.
The local-first profit operating system built for artisan bakeries, cloud kitchens, and coffee shops. Detect silent supplier price hikes, calculate recipe margins down to the gram, extract invoices with local OCR, and consult private on-device AI.
Interactive Live Margin Simulator
Select a menu item below to test how wholesale price hikes impact unit contribution.
Artisan Butter Croissant
Simulate verified supplier hike: European Unsalted Butter (+25%)
$3.48 contribution / serving
Margin % = ((Price - Cost) / Price) * 100Why Independent Kitchens Bleed 15–28% of Profits
Restaurants and bakeries run on thin 8–15% net margins. A handful of unnoticed wholesale price increases can quietly wipe out your entire monthly take-home profit.
Silent Wholesale Price Creep
Suppliers rarely give advance warning. Butter, cooking oil, cream, and flour quietly rise 12–25%. Unless you update every single recipe spreadsheet, you are subsidizing customer orders.
Compounding Unit Conversion Errors
You buy flour in 25kg bulk bags, butter in 5kg blocks, and dairy in 4-liter jugs—but your recipes call for 180 grams or 35 milliliters. Manual math leads to rounding errors that compound over thousands of orders.
Cloud Privacy & Subscription Bloat
Legacy enterprise food-costing software charges $150–$300/month and requires uploading confidential secret formulas to third-party cloud servers. PlateProfit keeps 100% of your data inside your local browser.
How Much Is Your Kitchen Secretly Leaking?
Drag the sliders below to estimate how small unnoticed ingredient cost hikes compound over time.
That is $1080/month or $252/week vanishing from your pocket.
Engineered For Real Commercial Kitchens
From bulk ingredient purchase orders to menu pricing psychology, every feature solves a real operational headache.
Profit Leak Radar
When butter or eggs increase, the radar detects every active recipe using those ingredients, calculates the delta cost per portion, and multiplies by sales volume to prioritize bottom-line leaks.
Batch & Portion Costing
Automatic conversion across mass (`kg`, `g`, `lb`, `oz`) and volume (`l`, `ml`, `fl oz`). Itemizes food ingredients, packaging containers, sauce cups, and napkins per portion.
Local Invoice OCR Ingestion
Drag-and-drop delivery dockets and supplier invoices. In-browser OCR extracts line items with uncertainty flags. Requires human confirmation before updating costs.
What-If Sandbox Simulator
Sandbox proposed price increases ($4.25 → $4.75) or ingredient swaps before touching your real menu. Instantly projects periodic net margin impact.
Private Ollama AI Intelligence
Connect to your local Ollama daemon (Llama 3.2, Mistral). Interprets messy invoice lines and explains financial variances with zero data leaving your laptop.
CSV & Printable PDF Exports
Download structured CSV spreadsheets of your entire inventory and menu costings, or generate printable kitchen prep sheets with ingredient portioning.
Built For Every Food Creator
Butter blocks, chocolate batons, and pastry flours have fluctuating commodity prices. PlateProfit keeps batch laminations profitable.
Track dairy vs. oat milk surcharges, specialty espresso roast yields, and takeaway cup/lid packaging overhead down to the milliliter.
High commission aggregator margins demand strict contribution control. Account for sauce cups, branded bags, and prep labor variables.
Fast batch yields and dynamic festival pricing. Know your exact break-even volumes before setting up at the weekend market.
How PlateProfit AI Compares
| Feature | PlateProfit AI | Generic Cloud Food Costing |
|---|---|---|
| Data Privacy & Storage | 100% Local (Never leaves device) | Stored on 3rd-party cloud servers |
| Monthly Cost | 100% Free & Open-Source | $89 – $250 / month per kitchen |
| Offline Operation | Fully functional offline | Requires uninterrupted internet connection |
| AI Intelligence | Local Ollama LLMs (No API fees) | Closed Cloud APIs (Data used for training) |
| Profit Leak Shock Radar | Automated multiplier across all recipes | Manual recalculation required |
Ready to Protect Your Kitchen's Margins?
PlateProfit AI comes pre-loaded with demonstration artisan bakery data. Start testing immediately without entering credit cards or creating accounts.