For Food trucks
Small kitchen, sharp numbers.
A truck has no room for a spreadsheet, a second fridge or a bad-margin dish. AKROUN FOOD AI works from your phone: cost the menu, count stock by scanning, shop at the nearest supermarket and label the prep that travels with you.
The daily reality
What usually goes wrong
- A six-item menu where one item quietly loses money.
- Buying at retail prices without re-costing the dish.
- Prep made at home or in a commissary without proper labels.
- Running out of the best seller halfway through the lunch rush.
- Stock counted from memory at the end of a long day.
How AKROUN FOOD AI helps
Feature: Food cost % & margin
Food cost per item on your phone
Cost each menu item from what you actually pay and see food-cost %, margin and the price you need for your target.
Open free toolFeature: Barcode scanning
Count by scanning
Scan barcodes to find or add stock items; set par levels on the handful of things you must never run out of.
Feature: Order groceries online
Shop at the nearest store in one tap
Shopping lists carry buy links per ingredient at local supermarkets and delivery apps, country-aware.
In the app
Feature: Shelf-life labels
Labels for prep that travels
Prep date, use-by, storage and allergens on a printed label — the paperwork inspectors look for first.
Open free toolFeature: Recipe scaling
Batch sizes for the day
Scale recipes to the day’s forecast so prep matches demand instead of filling the bin at close.
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No account needed — the same maths the app runs, as free tools.
From the journal
Articles written for this kind of kitchen.
How to Give Your Kitchen Staff Their Own Accounts and RolesInvite up to 6 staff, give each a role — manager, chef/cook or front of house — and see who logged what. Cooks never see prices. Step by step.Read article
How to Track Food Waste in Your Kitchen and What It CostsLog what is thrown away and why in a few seconds, see what it costs by day, by reason and by item, and track buffet leftovers — step by step.Read article
How to Use the Menu Engineering Matrix: Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and DogsFind out which dishes make you money and which only keep the kitchen busy — from your real sales and food costs — and what to do with each one.Read article
Questions truck owners ask
Does it work on a phone?
Yes — the app is responsive and installable as a PWA, and barcode scanning uses the phone camera.
Do I need Chef Pro for a five-item menu?
Recipes, scaling and the AI Chef are free. Costing, inventory and labels are Chef Pro; the free calculators cover one-off costing without an account.
Can I buy groceries through the app?
The app gives you buy links per ingredient at stores in your country; checkout happens on the store’s site or app.
Does it work offline?
The PWA caches the shell for quick launch, but recipes and stock need a connection.
Cost the whole menu tonight
Start free; add Chef Pro when you want inventory, labels and automatic costing.