Kitchen operations & safety
Kitchen management, food safety & recipe costing
The walk-in reads 9°C on a Saturday night, the rota fell apart by Friday and the GP% lives in one chef's notebook. Recipe costing software for restaurants, digital HACCP logs and safety checks, staff rotas, prep lists and inventory. One practical system for chefs, restaurants and catering teams.
Free plan forever · 14-day Solo trial on signup · No card needed
Import recipes in seconds from a photo, web link, file or pasted text.
- Aligned with FSA SFBB
- 14 UK allergens
- EHO audit pack export
- Free plan, no card required
Beef Bourguignon
× 2 · serves 8
Kitchen management software for professional kitchens
Recipes and menus, prep planning, inventory, allergen reviews, weekly rota and team records - the daily jobs a working kitchen actually has.
See the kitchen management software in fullKitchen operations & safety checks
Temperature logs with pass/fail readings, opening and closing checks, and an exportable EHO audit pack.
Staff rotas & team tasks
Plan weekly shifts by role, leave shift notes and assign prep to named team members.
Inventory, par levels & ordering
Stock by kitchen location, low-stock flags and order lists grouped by supplier.
Costed recipes & confident menus
Cost per portion and GP% from your ingredient prices, with recipe scaling from 0.05× to 500×.
Allergen compliance
Flag likely UK allergens, confirm recipes and retain review and change history.
Prep lists
Plan daily prep with due dates, quantities and staff assignment.
Who it's for
Built for restaurants, cafés, caterers & food trucks
Restaurants & gastropubs
Standardise recipes, watch GP% and keep daily safety records.
Cafés & coffee shops
Quick prep lists, fridge temperature logs and low-stock flags.
Caterers & event chefs
Scale recipes to the headcount and print allergen sheets.
Dark kitchens & prep teams
Shift notes, assigned prep tasks and waste tracking.
Private chefs & consultants
Cost per portion and your recipe books on any device.
Catering colleges & students
Practical costing tools and everyday kitchen checklists.
The numbers
What it works out for you
These are the actual calculations in the app, running here on a worked example. Change the figures and watch them move.
Cost per portion and GP%
- £15.42
- Net
- 78%
- GP
- 22%
- Food cost
Uses your own ingredient prices in the app. VAT stripped at 20%.
Scale a recipe, quantities follow
Batch cost is cost per portion multiplied by the portions you need.
See which dishes clear your target
1 dish below target.
Prices treated as VAT-inclusive, the same as the menu screen in the app.
Worked from your own ingredient prices once your recipes are in.
Free · No account needed
Free kitchen calculators
Try the costing maths right now in your browser. Nothing to sign up for.
GP calculator
Work out gross profit and the selling price you need for a dish.
Open calculatorBatch recipe cost calculator
Cost a batch from pack prices and trim waste, then see cost per portion.
Open calculatorMenu engineering calculator
Sort dishes into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs from sales and margin.
Open calculatorPlans
Kitchen software pricing: free, solo & team plans
Free
£0 forever
1 user · 3 recipe books · 50 recipes
Solo
£9.99 /mo
Everything unlimited for one chef
Team
Most popularFrom £24.99 /mo
5–25 users sharing one kitchen
Kitchen questions
Common questions about Chef’s Helper
Straight answers to the things chefs and owners ask before moving their records into an app.
Records suit all three UK food safety systems: SFBB in England and Wales, CookSafe in Scotland and Safe Catering in Northern Ireland. See how they line up.
Kitchen management guides
Practical guides to help you run a tighter, more profitable kitchen.
Log what goes in the bin and use it to tighten prep and ordering.
What UK kitchens need to record and why.
Daily checks for small kitchen teams.
Stock control for busy kitchens.
Plan role coverage, shift times and safer handovers.
Maintain verified recipe records and a useful review trail.
Ready for service
Get your kitchen on one system
Recipes, inventory and team records in one place. Start free. It takes a couple of minutes.