Every recipe, priced to survive the pass.
Ghost Chef is a universal recipe and cost-of-goods matrix for professional kitchens. Price any portion, size any batch, and set a break-even price in any currency - with no brand and no name attached, just the numbers.
Recipe - one portion
Salmon risotto
Theoretical COGS
13.92 AED
Actual COGS
16.23 AED
Total w/ burn
20.23 AED
Break-even @30%
67.43 AED
SALMON · RISOTTO · TRIMMED AND PRICED LIVE
Price in AED. Convert across twelve.
The matrix holds every figure in AED at its core and converts to the currency of your market, so one menu can be costed and priced across borders without re-doing the math.
The tools a real pass needs.
Twelve languages, four working principles. Everything a kitchen uses to know what a plate really costs.
AP / EP yield
Account for the weight you buy against the weight you can plate. Trim, skin, bone and waste become a real number, not a guess.
Batch scaling
Scale a recipe up for a service or down for a tasting. Quantities and costs scale together, so a 40-cover batch stays honest.
Theoretical vs actual COGS
The theoretical number assumes perfect yield. The actual number uses your yields. The gap between them is where margin quietly leaks.
Break-even pricing
Feed in your target food cost and get the price a portion must clear to pay for itself - before you add the floor price and the margin.
Cost a plate, right here.
Add ingredients, set quantities, yields, a batch size and your target food cost. The matrix prices it in your chosen currency on the fly.
AED base. Sample exchange rates for the demo, approximate and illustrative, not live market data.
Ingredients per portion
Kitchen Burn & Finishing
Guideline: 3.00 - 5.00 AED per portion.
The Invisible Burn: Cooking oils, butter, Maldon salt, fryer degreasing, and pass finishing. If you don't cost 3-5 AED here, your GOP is already leaking.
Defaults to break-even at 30% food cost.
Total portion cost x 4 = Proposed Net Selling Price (targets the 25% COGS sweet spot)
The 25% target applies to the net price. Food cost on the final (tax-inclusive) price is separate.
Full batch scaling & variance breakdown
Multi-recipe scaling, the line-by-line theoretical vs actual COGS split, and the menu matrix view live behind the paywall.
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Upload your recipe. Get the brutal audit.
Paste or upload a dish and the menu doctor scores your copy, checks your portion, and tells you straight whether the line makes money, sits in a margin trap, or should be dropped and redesigned.
Paste recipe or upload
Ingredients
Fill the form (or load the sample) and run the audit. You get a three-pillar verdict - sales copy, portion viability, and the commercial bottom line.
Model-based estimate. COGS uses the same math as the calculator. The sales-psychology score and the Star / Plowhorse / Puzzle / Dog placement are predictions from the copy, cost and dish type - not live sales data.
The 9 AED Universal Recipe & COGS Matrix
The full matrix as a clean, editable file: the 12-currency engine, the 12-language templates, the yield, batch, and break-even workbooks. One price, once, yours to keep.
- 12-currency pricing engine (AED base)
- Recipes in 12 languages
- AP / EP yield workbooks
- Batch scaling and break-even templates
- Editable, no accounts, no lock-in
9 AED
≈ 2.43 USD · 2.07 EUR · 1.80 GBP · 9.18 SAR
Instant download on release. No account, no subscription, no brand, no name.