DishCost helps independent restaurants calculate recipe costs, track ingredient price changes, and find dishes with weak margins. Each recipe can show ingredient line costs, total and per-serving cost, food cost percentage, a suggested price, and profit per serving. When an ingredient price changes, DishCost recalculates recipes and prep items that use it, including dishes that depend on those prep items. Users can add weekly order counts to sort dishes into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, and Dogs. Bulk CSV imports cover ingredients and prices; Pro also imports distributor order guides from Sysco, US Foods, BEK, or other vendors, with column mapping and SKU-based price updates. Pro includes PDF and CSV exports and email support. DishCost is designed for one kitchen at a single location. It does not include multi-location dashboards, live POS sync, inventory counts, invoice OCR, or in-app per-recipe nutrition and allergen tagging. Free tools have no time limit. Pro costs 39.00 USD per month for one kitchen, with unlimited recipes and ingredients and no per-seat fees.
Who it is for
DishCost is intended for independent, single-location restaurants that need recipe costing and menu profitability tools for one kitchen.
What is good
- Free tools have no time limit
- Ingredient price changes recalculate affected recipes
- Supports weekly menu engineering
- Bulk CSV ingredient imports
- Pro includes distributor imports and exports
What to know first
- Covers recipe costing for one kitchen
- No multi-location dashboards
- No live POS sync or inventory counts
- No invoice OCR
Verdict
DishCost focuses on recipe costing and menu margins for a single kitchen. Its free tools have no time limit, while Pro adds vendor imports, exports, and email support.
DishCost plans and pricing
All plansCompared on restaurant recipe costing software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $39/mo
- Inventory tracking
- No
- Yield and portion scaling
- Yes
- Menu profitability
- Yes
- Ingredient price updates
- Yes
- Multi-location support
- No
