Hey Product Hunt, I’m Justin. I got curious one day about how restaurant owners actually track whether their dishes are profitable. Turns out most independent restaurants (one location, a chef who’s also the owner, 12-hour days) are either doing it in spreadsheets that break constantly, or paying $200+/mo for tools built for chains with 50 locations. There’s basically nothing in the $30-50/mo range that just does recipe costing well. MarketMan starts at $199/mo. xtraCHEF requires Toast POS. MarginEdge wants $330/mo. All of them come with long contracts and weeks of onboarding. So I built DishCost. You put in your recipes and ingredient prices, and it calculates what each dish actually costs you. When chicken breast goes from $2.80/lb to $3.40/lb, every recipe with chicken updates automatically. You can see which dishes are making money and which are quietly bleeding margin. That’s it. No POS integration requirement, no 47-feature dashboard you’ll never touch. $39/mo, cancel anytime, takes minutes to set up. There’s also a free food cost calculator on the site if you just want to run some numbers without signing up. I’d love to hear from anyone in the restaurant space, or anyone who’s built tools for small business owners. What am I missing? Thanks for checking it out.

DishCost

The $39/mo alternative to $200 recipe costing tools

The $39/mo alternative to $200 recipe costing tools