Recipe costing
Recipes and sub-recipes built from your ingredients, with waste per component, so the cost of every plate is real.
Built for restaurant kitchens
Run the kitchen.
Know the numbers.
Salt brings recipes, menus, stock, purchasing, shifts and finance into one place, so you know what every plate costs and where every dollar goes.
Works in the browser on desktop, tablet and phone.
Everything in one place
From the first prep list to the last receipt
Menu engineering
Food cost and contribution margin for every dish, section by section. Change a price and see the effect instantly.
Live menus, any language
Design the menu, publish it to a public link, and translate it into whatever languages your guests read.
Inventory & purchasing
Batches with expiry dates, low-stock alerts, requisitions, and purchase orders grouped by supplier with the best price flagged.
Scheduling
Weekly rosters by role, swaps that check for conflicts, absences, and an hours report at the end of the week.
Finance
Sales, expenses and prime cost side by side, so you can tell whether a week was a good one before the accountant does.
Braised short rib
Mains · 1 portion
Component Cost Waste Beef short rib $7.20 12%Red wine jus Sub-recipe $1.12 0%Root vegetables $0.68 18%Potato purée Sub-recipe $0.54 0%
Cost per plate $10.79
Beef up 12.5% → plate cost updated
No more guesswork
Every plate, costed to the cent
Build recipes from your ingredients and sub-recipes. Salt adds the waste on each component and follows your supplier prices, so when beef goes up, the plate cost follows.
- Sub-recipes, yields and unit costs
- Waste % and waste cost per component
- Allergens carried through to the menu
Menus that sell
Price it right. Publish it live.
See food cost and contribution margin for every dish, section by section. Nudge a price, publish, and guests see it on their phones, in whatever language they read.
- Food cost % and margin per dish
- Design the menu and publish it to a public link
- Translations into any language you add
Live EN
BISTRO LUMIÈRE
Dinner
Starters
Garden salad12
Burrata & heirloom tomato16
Mains
Braised short rib34
Grilled sea bass28
Wild mushroom risotto22
ENFRDE日本語ES+
Food cost 31.7%
Low stock: Heavy cream
1.5 L left · below the 6 L minimum
Requisition · 12 L heavy cream
Green Valley Dairy · best price $3.20 / L
PO-0187 received into stock
3 items · $114.00 · 16:30
Inventory & purchasing
From low stock to delivered, before service
Salt tracks stock batch by batch and flags what's running low or about to expire. Turn the alert into a requisition, group it by supplier, and receive the delivery straight into stock.
- Batches with expiry dates, used first-expiring-first
- Requisitions grouped by supplier, best price flagged
- Purchase orders received line by line
Scheduling & finance
Prime cost, finally under target
Rosters by role, swaps and absences handled in a click, and sales, expenses and prime cost side by side. At close, you know exactly where every dollar went.
- Weekly shifts by role, with conflict-checked swaps
- Absences and hours reports
- Prime cost from your food and labour expenses
8 weeks agoTarget 60%This week
How it works
Up and running in four steps
- 1
Add your ingredients
Your suppliers and their prices, so every cost starts from real numbers.
- 2
Build your recipes
Ingredients and sub-recipes, with yields and waste per component.
- 3
Engineer the menu
Set prices by food cost and margin, then publish it online.
- 4
Run the day
Stock, purchasing, shifts and prime cost, all in the same place.
Pricing
One plan, every feature
Sized for a real restaurant, not an enterprise directory.
Pro
For one restaurant
- Up to 25 team members
- 1,000 ingredients & 500 recipes
- 25 menus, 10 published online
- 50 suppliers & 3 POS connections
- 8 GB of photos and documents
- Every feature included
Groups
Coming soonMore than one site
- Link sister restaurants into a group
- Share recipes, stock and staff across sites
- Trade stock with partner kitchens
- Everything in Pro, per location
Questions, answered
Do I need to install anything?
No. Salt runs in the browser on desktop, tablet and phone, and you can add it to your home screen like an app.
Can my whole team use it?
Yes. Invite up to 25 people and decide what each role can see and edit, from the kitchen to the floor.
Does it handle sub-recipes and waste?
Yes. Recipes can use other recipes as components, and each component carries its own waste percentage, so the cost per plate includes what ends up in the bin.
Which languages can my menu be in?
Any. Add the languages your guests read, translate the menu, and choose which ones are published. Guests switch language on the menu itself.
Which languages is the app in?
English, Spanish and Portuguese, and it works in your currency.