Free tools that know
your business.
Generic calculators hand you a number with no context. These are different: each one is built for restaurant costs and margins, and turns your own inputs into a plain call — raise, hold, or re-portion.
5 free tools, each on your device — no signup, no upload — and you don’t have to take that on faith: run the 5-test audit on us, then on any free tool. Not sure where to start? Pick a goal below.
Operations & Margin
The honest math of running an independent restaurant — food cost, menu mix, and the prices that protect your margin.
See the full topicCost Pulse: lock or float
Which wholesale ingredient prices are steady enough to lock a standing order, and which swing too hard to commit — how far the next print tends to move, backtested weekly, and loud about the ones we won't call.
You leave with: A per-ingredient predictability read: how far the next print tends to move, whether a fixed price survives it, and the majority we honestly won't call — never which way it's headed.
See which prices you can lock Live StandardVendor Benchmark
Enter your dated invoice prices for an item. It measures the wholesale market's move over your exact window and sets it beside yours — a market move, or a vendor markup?
You leave with: Your price change vs. the wholesale market's change over the same dates — charted, with the gap that's on your vendor.
Open Vendor Benchmark Live StandardMargin Math
Four restaurant calculators — delivery break-even, prime cost, covers needed, and a price-raise simulator. Stays in your browser.
You leave with: Honest numbers for your hardest pricing decisions.
Open Margin Math Live DeepMenu Engineering Matrix
Paste your menu — items, prices, food cost, units sold. Get a 2×2 of Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, and Dogs with one action per dish.
You leave with: An action per dish — keep, push, redesign, or drop.
Open Menu Engineering Live DeepPlate Cost Calculator
Upload your POS sales mix and see what each dish actually makes the house per year — on your real volume and your invoice prices. Then get a plain call when a price moves: raise, re-portion, or hold.
You leave with: What each dish makes you per year, on real volume — plus a plain call when a price moves.
Open Plate CostFree tools, no signup, no email required.
Want your own numbers tracked,
not just benchmarked?
These calculators are free and run in your browser, on public wholesale benchmarks. When you want them run against your own vendor invoices — flagged the moment a price jumps against your own history — that is Muntin Ledger. Or read the library for the reasoning behind every tool.