Walkthrough
From a new business to a costed plate.
Here's the whole workflow, screen by screen, exactly how Plate Pro looks on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Set up a business, add your suppliers and prices, then watch a recipe cost itself.
Set up
Create your business.
Start by creating a business, a café, a restaurant, a catering kitchen. Run several side by side, each with its own recipes, suppliers and prices, and switch between them any time.
Select your business
Choose a business to manage. Switch any time.
Harvest & Vine
Edited just now
The Corner Café
Edited 3 days ago
New business
Suppliers
Add your suppliers.
Add each vendor with their contacts, delivery schedule and terms. Stock items and prices hang off the supplier, so when a price moves you always know who it came from.
New supplier
Prime Produce Co.
Add a vendor to track contacts, delivery schedule, and stock items.
Primary contact
Business terms
Delivery days
Stock items
Add stock items & their prices.
Add the things you actually buy with their pack price and size, then set how you use them. Plate Pro works the pack price down to a usage cost, the real cost per gram, millilitre or each, that every recipe draws on.
New stock item
San Marzano Tomatoes
Tinned · D.O.P.
Purchase
Usage
Purchase
$6.20 / kg
6 kg pack
Usage cost
$0.0062 / g
usable cost
Source
Price history
Every price change, on the record.
Update a price and Plate Pro keeps a dated history with the % change. You see the average, high and low at a glance, and the new price flows straight through every recipe the ingredient touches.
San Marzano Tomatoes
Prime Produce Co.
$6.20
per kg ↑ 12.7%
Average
$5.84
Highest
$6.20
Lowest
$5.50
Price trend · all-time
Up 12.7% all-time
Price changes
1 Jun 2026
9:04 AM
18 May 2026
8:22 AM
2 May 2026
7:51 AM
Ingredients
Your whole pantry, in one list.
Everything you buy lives in one searchable list, current cost, supplier and category on every line. Filter by category or supplier to find anything in a tap.
Ingredients
San Marzano Tomatoes
Produce · Prime Produce
Fior di Latte
MilkDairy · Prime Produce
00 Flour
Dry goods · Mills Co.
Fresh Basil
Produce · Prime Produce
Olive Oil, EV
Oils · Colavita
Detail
Allergens, storage & categories.
Tag each ingredient with its allergens, where it's stored and how it's categorised. Allergens are safety-critical, so they're flagged clearly and carry through to every recipe that uses the ingredient.
Fior di Latte
Allergens
1 active · safety-criticalStorage
Category
Sub-recipes
Cost a sauce once. Nest it anywhere.
Build the things you make in-house as sub-recipes: a sauce, a dough, a stock. Cost them once, then drop them into any recipe. Their cost flows in, and updates everywhere the moment an ingredient price changes.
Tomato Sauce
Sub-recipeYields 1.2 kg · used in 4 recipes
Ingredients
San Marzano Tomatoes
800 g
Garlic, fresh
20 g
Olive Oil, EV
30 ml
Fresh basil
10 g
Recipes
Build a recipe, make it a menu item.
Drop in your stock items and sub-recipes with quantities, the nested ↳ Tomato Sauce carries its own cost straight in. Flag the recipe as a menu item, give it a selling price, and it's ready to cost.
Margherita Pizza
Menu itemServes 8 · 1 pizza
Ingredients
↳ Tomato SauceSUB-RECIPE
180 g
Fior di Latte
125 g
00 Flour
250 g
Fresh basil & oil
12 g
Menu item
The recipe
Photo, ingredients, method.
Every recipe reads like a proper spec: a photo of the finished plate, the full ingredient list with quantities, and the method your team follows. Keep it on the pass or print it as part of a recipe book.
Margherita Pizza
Serves 8 · 18 min · Wood oven
Ingredients
Method
Menu items
Every menu item, costed.
Your sellable dishes in one list, each with its live plate cost, selling price and food cost %. Change a supplier price upstream and every number here re-costs itself.
Menu items
3 items · target food cost 30%
Margherita Pizza
per pizza
Caprese Salad
per plate
Tiramisu
per portion
Costing
The costing tab: every cent, on the plate.
Open any recipe's Costing tab for the full breakdown, every component and sub-recipe, its line cost and share of the plate, the total, and the pricing summary: portion cost, menu price, food cost % and margin.
Margherita Pizza · per pizza
Cost breakdown
4 components · recalculated today
Portion cost
$2.45
Menu price
$9.00
à la carte
Food cost
27.2%
✓ under target
Margin
$6.55
72.8%
That's the whole pipeline.
Set up your business and cost your first recipe free, on Mac, iPhone and iPad.