For Restaurants
Every dish costed. Every margin visible. Every stock-out avoided.
A restaurant’s profit hides in plate cost, portion discipline and stock control. AKROUN FOOD AI links your recipes to your real purchase prices so the numbers update themselves — and the team cooks the same dish every night.
The daily reality
What usually goes wrong
- Food cost worked out once in a spreadsheet and never again as prices drift.
- Menu prices set by feel instead of from a target food-cost %.
- Running out of a key ingredient on a Friday night.
- Dishes that taste different depending on who is on the line.
- Guests asking about allergens and getting a shrug.
How AKROUN FOOD AI helps
Feature: Plate cost
Plate cost that updates itself
Each recipe is costed from your inventory prices. Change a supplier price once and every plate cost, food-cost % and margin moves with it.
Open free toolFeature: Menu cost report
A menu cost report, worst margins first
All active recipes in one table with food-cost %, gross margin and — with your operating costs entered — net margin per dish.
Feature: Barcode scanning
Counts in minutes with barcode scanning
Scan EAN/UPC codes from your phone to find or add stock items; par levels turn counts into an automatic reorder list.
Feature: AKROUN AI Chef
New dishes drafted by the AI Chef
Describe the dish and constraints; get a complete professional recipe with method, timings and nutrition as a draft you approve.
In the app
Feature: Cooking mode
The same dish every night
Cooking mode walks the line through the method step by step with timers and the servings you chose, so consistency does not depend on memory.
Feature: Operating costs
Operating costs per plate
Enter rent, staff, utilities and % costs such as card fees; they are spread over your monthly covers to show the true net margin of each dish.
Also for this kind of kitchen
Try it free in your browser
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 restaurants ask
How accurate is the costing?
As accurate as your prices. Costing is deterministic maths on your inventory prices and recipe quantities — no estimates — and unmatched ingredients are listed so you can fix them.
Does it replace my POS?
No. AKROUN FOOD AI is the kitchen side: recipes, costs, stock and labels. Sales mix still comes from your POS.
What does the AI cost me?
AI requests are included in each plan with a daily allowance; there is no per-recipe charge.
Can I try it without an account?
Yes — the free food-cost and plate-cost calculators work in the browser, and the guest AI Chef generates one recipe without signing up.
See your real margins this week
Start free with recipes and the AI Chef; add Chef Pro for costing, inventory and menu reports.