Cost-i-mator

The Cost-i-mator is My Local Foodie’s own specially designed Menu Costing Software. It is simple to use and chef focused; making building fully costed recipes and menus a breeze. It is GST compliant and has been built and coded to suit Australian and New Zealand retail food businesses conditions.

The Cost-i-mator is the ultimate software for chefs comprising an online ordering facility, stocktake and reporting functions with recipe costing and menu building tools.

The Cost-i-mator works as the buying portal for the My Local Foodie Buying Group and provides an easy to use system for clients to place and manage orders online through My Local Foodie preferred suppliers.

The stocktake functions have been designed to streamline the process and provide fast accurate reporting and reflect real time opening and closing stock totals.

Advanced reporting functions allow clients to access monthly/quarterly/annual purchase summary reports from suppliers, menu statistic reporting and many other reporting options.

Where retail food businesses often come undone is in their recipe and menu costings. The Cost-i-mator takes the guesswork out of food costing to provide owners and managers with greater insight into food budgeting and allow chefs to achieve a better understanding of recipe costing and menu building.

As product pricing changes so too does the cost of recipes; the Cost-i-mator atomically reflects any pricing change into recipes and menus so you can be confident your costings are always accurate.

Save Time

Save time using the Cost-i-mators advanced accounting systems and controls to make running a retail food business a whole lot easier. Our systems will reduce the stress associated with food budgeting and give your staff the right tools to be able to perform at their peak and increase efficiency and profitability through better working systems.

To see more about why the Cost-i-mator is the Ultimate Software for Chefs take a tour of the key functions and see for yourself.

Cost-i-mator Training / Support

My Local Foodie provides the following ongoing training and support for the Cost-i-mator:

• Phone and Email support with dedicated Customer Service Representative 8am – 5pm Mon-Fri
• PDF training manuals
• Food costing templates
• Online video tutorials

Emergency Hotline details are provided to all established chefs and clients to use for after-hours ‘emergency’ issues.

It is recommended that a minimum of 3-5 staff from each venue be fully trained in Cost-i-mator pantry list, ordering and stocktake functions. Kitchen staff should be fully trained in Cost-i-mator sub-recipe, recipe and menu costing as well as reporting/analysis.

Clients are encouraged to book a semi-annual appointment for a training session and/or new menu support at My Local Foodie Head Office in South Melbourne. Additional training sessions are available in 2 hour, half day and full day blocks (subject to availability) and are best used for advanced product training, product/supplier maintenance for pantry/price lists and for assistance with food costing and advanced menu engineering issues.

Cost-i-mator Video Tour

Homepage Features & Functions

Pantry List & Manage Orders

Stocktake Functions

Recipe Costing

Menu Costing