Easily Manage Your Recipes and Costs
Culvana's recipe costing software gives you the cost breakdown for every menu item — items, materials and labor — with a total food cost in your currency and a food cost percentage. Knowing your recipe costs is how you make the strategic decisions that reduce expenses and improve your bottom line.
Unlike a standalone costing tool, Culvana is one platform: the AI reads your invoices, updates ingredient costs, moves inventory, and recalculates every affected recipe automatically. Nobody in your building does data entry.
Create Recipes and Add Sub-Recipes Easily
Build recipes and sub-recipes as deep as your menu goes — the mother dough inside the loaf inside the sandwich, costed all the way down. Every recipe shows total cost including items, materials and the labor to make it.
Do You Know Your Recipe Costs?
Scale any recipe by percentage or serving size and Culvana recalculates the cost instantly. Let the software do the math so you know the cost of a recipe at any portion size — then check what that's worth to you in the savings calculator.
Identify Costly Food Items and Materials
Enter quantity and portion size for any ingredient and Culvana calculates cost based on the weight selected — metric or imperial, with yield applied at the supplier, ingredient and recipe level. You'll see exactly which items drive the cost of each dish, so you can price the menu or rework the recipe on facts.
Add Labor and Cost Out Menu Items
Add theoretical labor to recipes to calculate menu costs accurately. Food, materials, labor and overhead stay separated for analysis, so you can zero in on true food cost without the noise.
Write Up Preparations and Procedures
Don't leave your cooks guessing. Type directions into each recipe with formatting, highlights and links to photos or videos — so every plate comes out the same, on every shift, at every location.
Identify Allergens With Every Recipe
Culvana identifies and displays allergens as recipes and menu items are created. Your kitchen knows where cross-contamination risk lives, and your menu can declare allergens so guests with food allergies can order safely.
Scale Recipes by Percentage or Portions
Cooks can scale recipes from the recipe page or the recipe report, on a phone or tablet, and every ingredient stays in proportion — accurate at any batch size, from a single plate to a banquet run.
POS built in
No integration to buy — the POS is part of the platform. Every sale depletes inventory and updates food cost in real time. Switching from Square, Clover or Toast? We make it easy.
Cloud-based
Nothing to install. Any device with a browser — PC, tablet, or the phone in your server's apron.
Multi-unit ready
Push recipes and menu items to every location and update pricing across your network of stores.
Real-time reports
Inventory usage, waste logs and product mixes with food costs — live, from anywhere.
AI does the typing
Photograph an invoice and costs, stock and journal entries update themselves. Ask "where am I losing margin?" and get an answer from your own data.
User friendly
Built by operators. Train staff in an afternoon, not a month.
More Than Restaurants
Recipe costing is the same problem wherever food is costed, counted and sold: catering businesses, meal delivery and prep companies, franchises, bars and clubs, universities, breweries, bakeries, hotels and more. One engine, configured for how you operate.
See your recipe costs this week, not next month
Run your numbers through the savings calculator — your purchases, your prices, every assumption on screen. Or book a demo and we'll cost one of your actual recipes live.