Accounting & Finance

PlateCost - Know What Every Dish Really Costs

Independent restaurant owners often price menu items by guesswork, risking dishes that lose money. This tool lets you enter a dish's selling price and ingredient costs to instantly see its food cost percentage and profit margin, so you know if a dish is profitable before it goes on the menu.

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Independent restaurant owners and small cafe operators in the United States who manually price menu items and need a fast, reliable way to check profitability.

How it works

  1. Enter the dish name and selling price, then add or remove ingredient cost lines using the + and - buttons.
  2. Click Calculate to instantly see the food cost percentage, margin dollar amount, and margin percentage for the dish.
  3. Click Save to store the dish costing (name, price, ingredients, computed values, and timestamp) in your history list.
  4. Use the Print button to open the browser print dialog and produce a clean breakdown to share with kitchen staff.

What you gain

  • Instant food cost percentage and margin calculation per dish
  • Simple add/remove ingredient lines for accurate cost entry
  • One-click saving to a persistent history for tracking pricing decisions
  • Built-in validation catches typos before they affect your math
  • Printable breakdown for easy staff communication

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Technical details

Standard50.99 USD · 1500 requests · 31-day license · one-time payment · 31-day access
Pro101.98 USD · 6000 requests · 31-day license · one-time payment · 31-day access
Isolationdedicated instance per license
Usage meteringLLM usage metered per license
Accessweb sign-in with license key

How to set up & use

  1. Buy the license — your key (lic_...) appears on the order page and in your email.
  2. Sign in at app.synoriaai.com with your license key.
  3. No installation — the product runs in your browser, on your own isolated instance.
  4. Type the dish name and the price you plan to sell it for.
  5. Add each ingredient with its cost using the Add Ingredient button.
  6. Click Calculate to see the food cost percentage and profit margin.
  7. Click Save to add this dish to your saved history.
  8. Click Print to get a shareable copy for your kitchen.

Frequently asked questions

Does this connect to my POS or supplier accounts?

No. You enter ingredient costs and selling price manually - there are no external integrations, so your data stays fully under your control.

Is my saved data private?

Yes. Your dish costings are stored only on this app's server and are not shared with any third party.

Can I track pricing decisions over time?

Yes. Every dish you save stays in your history list on the main screen, so you can review past costings whenever you need.

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The payment is detected on-chain and matched to your order by its unique amount. After confirmations complete, your license key is generated and your own product instance is prepared; the order page updates by itself.
No. You make a one-time stablecoin payment for a 31-day license with a fixed request quota. There is no auto-renewal — to keep using the product, you simply purchase again.
Each plan includes a fixed number of requests for the license period. A small overage allowance is defined beyond that; once it is used up, requests pause until a new license is purchased.
Yes. Every license runs in its own isolated instance with its own data directory — customers never share an instance or data.
On-chain payments are never lost. Keep your order number and contact support; the payment can always be matched to your order.
Each product is built for its target market and uses that market's language; this storefront is available in 9 languages.

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