Cost recipes. Price smarter. Protect your margins.

Dishboard helps food businesses know true dish costs, see gross profit instantly, and protect margins across dine-in and delivery.

Dishboard is free to use. Every feature included, no card required.

Built for small food businesses. Your recipes and costs are private to your account.

Built forRestaurantsCafesBakeriesFood trucksDelivery kitchens
A restaurant owner at the pass of her kitchen checking a tablet, a cook working at the range behind her
Chicken Sandwich
Review price
Price
$7.00
Cost
$2.41
Food cost
34.4%
You keep
Before labour and rent
$4.59
Watch

See it in 1:10.

You know what you charge for every plate that leaves your pass. The one number you cannot see from there is what each of them costs you to make, and it does not hold still.

A smiling restaurant owner in an apron, standing in a professional kitchen, holding a plate with a cheeseburger, beside the words What is Dishboard? Know what every dish costs you
How it works

Paste a recipe. Dishboard reads it.

No retyping ingredients one at a time. Paste what you already have, cups and spoons convert to real weights, and anything that needs a decision is flagged, never guessed.

You paste this
A recipe pasted as plain text into Dishboard, including a fraction, a range of eggs, and a garnish with no amount, exactly as it would read in a cookbook
Dishboard reads this
The same recipe after Dishboard reads it: cups and a teaspoon converted to real gram weights from a USDA-based ingredient catalog, with a new-ingredient badge on each
1

Paste your recipe

One ingredient per line, the way a recipe already reads. No retyping, no reformatting into a spreadsheet first.

2

Dishboard reads it

Amounts, units and names are recognized. Cups and spoons convert to real gram weights, and anything that needs a decision is flagged, never guessed.

4 cups and spoons converted to real gram weights
3

Check cost and price

See food cost %, gross profit, and a suggested price. Then check delivery profitability across DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, or any custom channel.

Product example

A Chicken Sandwich. Real numbers.

Add your ingredients and a price. Dishboard works out what the dish really costs, whether that price hits your target, and what to charge if it does not.

A chicken sandwich on a toasted roll, plated on a white dish
Chicken Sandwich Review price

This sandwich is priced below what its real cost says it should be. Cost includes the $0.15 box, because this shop boxes every sandwich.

Charge this instead
$8.03
Hits your 30% target on the same sandwich.
On deliverythe same sandwich leaves you $4.59 at your own table, but $2.09 on DoorDash.

Uber Eats $2.44, Grubhub $2.30. After commission and the delivery packaging each channel adds on top, before labour, rent and overhead.

Free for small businesses

Every feature, free.

No plans, no limits, no card. We built Dishboard for small food businesses. Pricing.

  • Unlimited menu items, ingredients & supplies, and prep recipes
  • Food cost %, gross profit, and suggested price per dish
  • Unlimited delivery partners: DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and more
  • Recipe cards for kitchen staff
  • Insights: margin alerts, pricing suggestions, price impact analysis
  • Full price change history with per-dish cost impact
  • CSV import/export and Costing Sheet export
  • Category-level food cost targets
  • Shopping list for prep planning
  • Your recipes and costs are private to your account
  • No lock-in: export or delete your data any time
FAQ

Common questions

Is Dishboard really free?

Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no plan limits and no card required.

Is Dishboard a POS or inventory system?

No. It is a calm workspace for recipe costing and menu margins. We deliberately leave POS, inventory deduction, and accounting to other tools.

What if I just want to organize my recipes?

That works too. You can keep recipe cards and prep recipes without ever entering a price, and add costs later when you are ready.

Can I include packaging and delivery fees?

Yes. Packaging can be part of the recipe cost, and delivery channels can include commission, payment fees, fixed fees, discounts, and partner-specific assumptions.

Can I import my ingredient spreadsheet?

Yes. You can import ingredients and supplies from CSV, then use those costs inside menu items.

Do you handle yield and waste?

Yes. Set a yield % on raw ingredients and prep recipes use real output yield to cost what actually goes in.

Can I print Recipe Cards for staff?

Yes. Recipe Cards hide costs by default. Owners can also export a Costing Sheet that includes costs, margins, and suggested prices.

One dish. Real numbers. Three minutes.

Paste a recipe or add ingredients one at a time, then see what the dish actually costs.