Know exactly what every dish costs you — before you sell it.
ZRecipe is food costing software that turns supplier invoices into accurate recipe costs, tracks ingredient prices, and shows real margins — built for bakeries, cafés, and restaurants across Ireland and the EU.
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Running the numbers by hand doesn't scale
Your spreadsheet goes stale the moment prices change
Supplier prices move constantly, but spreadsheets don't. By the time you notice, you've been under-pricing dishes for weeks.
Manual allergen labels are one typo away from a fine
Copying allergen data by hand across recipes is slow and error-prone — and EU Regulation 1169/2011 gives you no room for mistakes.
You find out a recipe is unprofitable after it's already on the menu
Without real-time costing, margin problems surface in your accounts months later — not in time to fix the price or the recipe.
Built for how food businesses actually work
Cost every dish, automatically
The full cost of a recipe, recalculated the instant anything changes.
Automated recipe costing
Every recipe recalculates its true cost the instant an ingredient price changes.
Sub-recipes
Use one recipe as an ingredient in another (like a pastry cream base) — costs roll up automatically through every recipe that uses it.
Yield & batch scaling
Scale a recipe from one portion to a full batch with USDA-referenced yield factors baked in.
Labor & overhead, your way
Turn on labor and overhead cost tracking per recipe, with your own job titles and hourly rates — not a generic default.
VAT-aware pricing
Set your selling price inclusive of VAT and see your true margin, calculated against Ireland's current VAT rates.
Never lose track of a price change
Prices move constantly — ZRecipe keeps up so you don’t have to.
AI-powered invoice import
Snap a photo or upload a PDF — ZRecipe extracts suppliers, prices, and packaging automatically. Import a single invoice or a whole batch at once.
Ingredient price history
Every price you've ever paid for an ingredient, charted over time, so you spot a supplier's creeping prices before they eat your margin.
Substitute an ingredient everywhere
Swap a discontinued or renamed ingredient across every recipe that uses it, in one action — not one recipe at a time.
Supplier & brand tracking
Know exactly which supplier and brand you're paying for, with autocomplete that keeps your data consistent.
Run the business, not just the kitchen
Compliance, reporting, and team tools that scale with you.
EU allergen compliance
Allergens roll up from ingredients to recipes automatically, ready for Regulation 1169/2011 labels.
Kitchen Cards
Print clean, standardised recipe and prep cards for the line — with your own branding once you’re on Pro.
Label printing
Batch-print ingredient and allergen labels for Brother, Dymo, and Zebra printers, or standard A4 sheets.
Reports & margin health
See every recipe's margin at a glance, color-coded from healthy to risky, sorted by what needs your attention first.
AI recipe ideas
Stuck on what to do with surplus ingredients? Describe what you have and the style you want — ZRecipe suggests recipe ideas to try.
Team access
Bring your kitchen and management team in, with role-based access to costs and settings.
Why we built ZRecipe
ZRecipe started at a kitchen table, not a whiteboard. Between us, we've spent over three decades in hospitality — running kitchens, managing bakeries and cafés, and watching good businesses lose money on dishes nobody ever priced properly.
Every recipe we ever costed by hand told the same story: ingredient prices crept up, the fiche technique never got updated, and by the time anyone noticed, a "profitable" dish had been quietly losing money for months. Allergen labelling was worse — copied by hand from recipe to recipe, one typo away from a serious mistake.
So we built the tool we always wished we had: recipe costing that updates itself the moment a supplier invoice changes, allergen labels that are never manually copied, and margins you can actually trust. ZRecipe is that tool — built by kitchen people, for kitchen people.
Iriana Rosa Vettori
Founder
A culinary graduate since 2012, Iriana has worked across Relais & Château kitchens worldwide, managed cafés and bakeries, and developed and standardised recipes and fiches techniques for professional kitchens. She shapes how ZRecipe thinks about real kitchen workflows — not just spreadsheets.
Camilo Vettori
Co-Founder
Over 20 years in hospitality, across restaurant operations, management, and technology. Camilo built ZRecipe to bring real financial visibility to kitchens that have always run on instinct and spreadsheets.
How it works
Import your invoices
Snap a photo or upload a PDF. AI extracts suppliers, prices, and packaging in seconds.
Build your recipes
Add ingredients and quantities — ZRecipe calculates true cost and margin instantly.
Price with confidence
Print allergen-compliant labels and kitchen cards, and know your margin on every dish.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free. Upgrade when your kitchen is ready to grow.
Pro
€25/month
- Unlimited recipes
- Unlimited ingredients
- AI-powered invoice import
- Yield factor & batch costing
- EU allergen labels & printing
- PDF export — kitchen cards & reports
- Team members (up to 5)
- AI recipe ideas
Frequently asked questions
Stop guessing what your dishes cost.
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