For Cafés
Make every pastry, sandwich and bowl earn its place on the counter.
Café margins are won on small items sold many times a day — and lost in the bin at closing time. AKROUN FOOD AI costs each item, keeps the display consistent whoever is on shift, and shows what to make tomorrow.
The daily reality
What usually goes wrong
- Counter items priced by what the café next door charges.
- Milk, beans and bread ordered by instinct — sometimes too much, sometimes not enough.
- The same sandwich built differently by every barista.
- Customers asking for calories or allergens with no answer on the card.
- Display items without a prep or use-by date.
How AKROUN FOOD AI helps
Feature: Food cost % & margin
Food cost % for every counter item
Cost each item from your purchase prices and see which ones carry the margin and which need a new price or a leaner build.
Open free toolFeature: Auto reorder list
Never run out of milk again
Par levels on staples create an automatic reorder list; counts take minutes.
Feature: Cooking mode
One build sheet per item
Recipes with steps and portions, followed in cooking mode, so the display looks the same on Monday and Saturday.
Feature: Nutrition tracking
Calories and allergens on the card
Per-serving nutrition and detected allergens for every recipe, exportable for menu cards and dietary questions.
Feature: Shelf-life labels
Dated labels on display items
Print prep and use-by labels with storage and allergens straight from the recipe.
Open free toolAlso for this kind of kitchen
Try it free in your browser
No account needed — the same maths the app runs, as free tools.
Questions café owners ask
We bake some items and buy others — can both be costed?
Yes. Baked items are costed from their recipe; bought-in items are stock items with a unit cost and can be used in recipes or priced directly.
Does it handle drinks?
A drink is a recipe like any other — beans, milk, syrup — and costs the same way.
Is nutrition data reliable?
Nutrition is computed from a curated ingredient database and clearly marked as an estimate; it is suitable for guidance, not laboratory labelling.
Can I try before paying?
Free tools and the guest AI Chef need no account; the free plan includes recipes, scaling and the AI Chef with a daily allowance.
Price the counter with confidence
Start free; unlock costing, inventory and labels with Chef Pro.