Snap the price list. Done.
A photo, a PDF, a supplier spreadsheet: Kosteo reads every line, recognises your items and updates the prices. Your food costs follow within seconds.
No more evenings lost to data entry.
forecasting tool built for quick-service restaurants
Your first recipe costing sheet in 5 minutes, without typing a thing.
Snap a photo of an invoice: the Pro plan's AI creates your items and their prices. You put the recipe together, Kosteo works out the cost and the margin, live. You do it yourself, effortlessly.
Free, no credit card.
what your spreadsheet doesn't show
Three steps ahead
In the middle of service, nobody opens a spreadsheet. Kosteo works while you work.
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Ingredient costs
Supplier increases, landed costs, prices gone haywire: your margin moves before your eyes, not three months later.
02
Forecast turnover
Even with no sales history, thanks to AI-based forecasting — a projection before you've even opened.
03
Your margin, dish by dish, ingredient by ingredient
And a way to test a new concept before committing to a full business plan.
linked price list
Chicken goes up. You know before your bank manager does.
Every ingredient is linked to your supplier price list. When a price moves, every recipe affected is recalculated automatically, and the difference shows up right where you're already looking.
No re-keying. No blind spots.
Price list — Suppliers
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Beef mince 2.5 kgPrice synced with the supplier's price list
€6.88/kg
Chicken tenders 1 kgPrice synced with the supplier's price list
€7.72/kg
+4.2%
Chicken kebab meat 2 kgPrice synced with the supplier's price list
€8.15/kg
4 recipes recalculated · Food cost updated
Recipes — Classic Burger sheet
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Recipe sheet
ListAssemblyPlate
top of the dish
IngredientCostRunning cost
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Brioche burger bun1 pc
€0.22
€0.22
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Sliced cheddar20 g
€0.15
€0.37
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House burger sauce15 ml
€0.09
€0.46
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House ketchup10 ml
€0.04
€0.50
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Beef patty150 g
€1.95
€2.45
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Caramelised onions25 g
€0.28
€2.73
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Brioche burger bun1 pc
€0.20
€2.93
base of the dish
Drag the cards to change the assembly order.
FOOD COST — CLASSIC BURGER29.6% · margin €6.97
recipe builder
Build your dish the way you would in the kitchen.
Drag, drop, reorder: the stack follows the real assembly order, and profitability is recalculated as you build. The printable assembly sheet comes out on its own.
A menu is built, not filled in.
Every recipe is checked against the Équilibre Vital® Formula: ½ vegetables, ¼ protein, ¼ grains. Kosteo weighs the plate, gives its verdict and, with Kosteo Pro, Orac suggests the tweaks that rebalance it without blowing the cost.
orac, our forecasting druid
Your first year of trading, already mapped out.
Weekly profiles, weightings by product family, trade-specific coefficients: Orac projects your turnover even with no sales history. It's the part of the business plan spreadsheets simply can't do.
No need to have opened to see clearly.
Live data sources, refreshed every night
- Local weatherOpen-Meteo · climate and forecasts at your address
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Official bank holidaysFrench State · mainland and overseas -
Official school calendarFrench Ministry of Education · zone by zone
- Orac IA Progigs, matches, markets around you
Orac — Projection
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Rolling 12-month projection
Value €Volume
projected turnoverrangebaseline
PROJECTED TURNOVER / 12 MONTHS€850,000
Orac — Local events
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- Touloulou Saturday16 Jan · carnival, calculated+6%
- Concert at the Zéphyr10 Oct · 3 km · found by Orac AI Pro+10%
- Patron saint’s festival15 Oct · area catalogue+9%
- All Saints’ Day1 Nov · bank holiday−5%
EFFECT OF EVENTS · OCTOBER+7.4%
local events · orac
Saturday’s concert? Orac saw it coming.
Carnival, bank holidays, school holidays, neighbourhood festivals: Orac puts them on your calendar and puts a figure on their effect on your sales, over the counter and for delivery. With Kosteo Pro, Orac AI also searches the web for upcoming concerts, matches and markets around your address — you choose the ones that matter.
You know why Saturday will be packed. And by how much.
kosteo pocket
The shop floor, in your pocket.
On a phone, Kosteo opens on Pocket: the jobs you do on your feet, between two deliveries. Same account, same data — nothing to install, nothing to re-enter.
- Record a price right by the box: the price per kilo is worked out and compared with the last one.
- Check in a delivery line by line, with shortages, batches, use-by dates and temperature: your stock follows.
- Record by photo (Kosteo Pro) take a photo of the label: AI reads the product, the price and the pack size, and prepares the record.
7 a.m., at the cash & carry
Prices get recorded in the aisle.
Box price, contents: Pocket brings it down to the kilo and compares it with the last known price, before you even reach the till. The food cost of every dish that uses it follows.
With Kosteo Pro: snap the label, AI reads it for you.
core features
What the beta lets you try
Yield
Usable cost accounts for cooking and trimming loss. That's what goes into your recipes — not just the price of the box.
€7.41 on the invoice. €7.72 on the plate.Food cost
Very profitable, profitable, one to watch, not profitable: every dish shows its colours, set against your food cost target.
One glance. No mental arithmetic.Supplier negotiation
Price gaps jump out the moment a supplier slips. One click sends them a negotiation email, already written.
The right price, without hunting for the right words.Alerts
Missing price, price to check, pack size to confirm: better a clear alert than a falsely precise food cost.
We never guess a price.Landed costs
Designed in French Guiana, where landed costs make or break a margin — and where no general-purpose tool handles them properly.
Built where every kilo counts.New concept
Ice cream? Poke bowls? Build the recipe, read the food cost, decide — before you sink weeks into it.
Test the idea before the business plan.
coming soon · kosteo pro
The numbers run themselves.
The numbers run themselves.
You get back to cooking.
Kosteo Pro puts AI to work on what costs you the most time and money: data entry, the unexpected, and the numbers nobody shares.
from
€69
CHF 69
excl. VAT / month
The night it overflows, you saw it coming.
Gigs, matches, night markets, carnival: AI spots the events around your address and offers to add them to your forecast. You order right, you staff right.
Fewer stock-outs. Less waste.The whole team on the same numbers.
Invite your head chef, your partner, your accountant. Everyone sees what matters to them; nobody works from an out-of-date spreadsheet again.
One version of the truth.Beta testers will be the first to try Kosteo Pro.
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why kosteo exists
Born of a business plan that had no answers
While building a business plan, Merwen ran into three obstacles: no way to forecast reliable turnover, no way to check margins because of landed costs, and no way to tell whether a supplier's price made sense.
Kosteo is the tool Merwen wished for back then. It's the one the beta now puts in your hands.
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Stop guessing your margin.
Stop guessing your margin.
Start seeing it.
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