Know Your Costs.
Price with Confidence.
Profit with Purpose.
Stop guessing what your menu items cost. Mise en Cost helps food entrepreneurs instantly calculate recipe costs, food cost percentages, and profitability using AI-powered tools.
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Ingredient Breakdown
8 itemsRecipe Cost
$12.90
per portion
Food Cost %
28.7%
Target: 30%
Suggested Price
$44.95
3.5× markup
Profit Margin
$32.05
71.3% margin
Trusted By Leading Culinary, Business, and Innovation Communities
Mise en Cost is being developed with support, mentorship, and recognition from leading organizations across culinary arts, entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, and business.
Displayed organizations represent programs, fellowships, mentorship networks, accelerators, entrepreneurial communities, and initiatives in which the founder has participated or been recognized.
Built for Culinary Entrepreneurs
Designed by an award-winning chef, culinary educator, and food entrepreneur with 25+ years of industry experience.
Most food businesses don't fail because of food.
They fail because of their numbers.
73%*
Underpricing Menu Items
of small food businesses underprice at least one signature item.
+22%*
Rising Ingredient Costs
average increase in core ingredient prices over the last 24 months.
1 in 3*
Inconsistent Profit Margins
food businesses can't say what their true margin is this month.
6+ hrs*
Spreadsheet Overload
per week lost manually updating costing spreadsheets.
*Illustrative figures pending validation in beta cohort.
Everything you need to understand your food costs
AI Recipe Costing
Upload ingredients and instantly calculate true per-portion costs.
01Smart Ingredient Database
Store ingredients, pack sizes, and supplier pricing in one place.
02Food Cost % Tracking
Know exactly where your margins stand on every menu item.
03Profit Calculator
See profit per item before you ever quote or sell it.
04Receipt OCR
Snap a photo of a receipt and update ingredient pricing automatically.
05Downloadable Reports
Share clean reports with partners, investors, or your accountant.
06Three steps to better profits
Enter Recipe Ingredients
Add your ingredients, quantities, and pack sizes. Or snap a receipt.
Mise en Cost Calculates Automatically
Our AI computes per-portion cost, food cost %, and suggested pricing.
Price With Confidence & Profit More
Lock in margins, share reports, and grow with real financial clarity.
Created by a chef who has
lived the problem.
Our founder spent decades helping food businesses grow while watching talented entrepreneurs struggle with pricing and profitability.
Mise en Cost was built to bridge the gap between culinary creativity and financial success — so the people who feed us can finally feed their families too.
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- Direct influence on product roadmap
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Questions, answered.
Every profitable food business starts with knowing the numbers.
Join the beta and help shape the future of food costing.