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Margena

Recipe and menu costing

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Know what every plate costs. Pay once.

Margena is a recipe and menu costing app for iPhone and iPad: ingredient prices, yield, base preparations, food cost and suggested prices. It works offline, keeps your recipes on your device, and costs one payment.

Platforms
iPhone and iPad
Free to try
10 recipes free, with every feature
To keep it
US$24.99 · one payment
Data collected
None

Fair pricing

// screenshots

  • The menu with food cost percentage and margin for each item
  • A recipe with cost per portion, cost per batch, yield and ingredient lines
  • A menu item with plate cost, food cost, margin and a suggested price
  • Backup and export: menu cost sheet PDF, CSV files and a supplier price list import
  • The menu with food cost percentage and margin for each item
  • A recipe with cost per portion, cost per batch, yield and ingredient lines
  • A menu item with plate cost, food cost, margin and a suggested price
  • Backup and export: menu cost sheet PDF, CSV files and a supplier price list import

Margena works out what your recipes and menu really cost, from the prices you pay. It's faster than a spreadsheet, it doesn't break when a price changes, and it never needs an account.

Made for small restaurants, taquerías, food trucks, cafés, caterers and bakeries.

// what it does

COST EVERY RECIPE

  • Ingredients with the pack you buy and what you paid: a 50 lb sack, a case of 30, a gallon
  • Usable yield (trim loss): onion 90%, whole chicken 70%
  • Exact unit conversion: g, kg, oz, lb, ml, L, cups, tablespoons, pieces, dozens
  • Weight to volume only with the density you enter. Margena never guesses
  • Base preparations (salsas, doughs, marinades) used inside other recipes, any depth
  • Cost per batch, per portion and per kg, L or piece, with the share of each line

PRICE YOUR MENU

  • Plate cost from recipe portions plus extras like tortillas or a container
  • Food cost % and margin per plate
  • Suggested price from your target food cost, rounded up to your price steps
  • Prices that include sales tax or IVA are handled for you
  • Try a price and see the margin before you change it
  • Labor by the minute and overhead %, or price from full cost plus your profit

MAKE IT IN QUANTITY

  • Scale any recipe by batches, portions (200 tamales) or amount (5 kg)
  • Base preparations to make first, with the total of each
  • Printable production sheet with a tick box per line
  • Send a dish's cost and price to Quotiza to quote catering and custom orders

WHEN A SUPPLIER RAISES A PRICE

  • Quick price update by supplier after a market run
  • See every recipe and menu item whose cost changed, biggest margin loss first
  • Import a supplier price list from a CSV file

SHARE AND PRINT

  • Recipe cards as PDF, with a kitchen copy that hides costs
  • Menu cost sheet as PDF
  • CSV files that open in Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets
  • Back up everything as one file and move it to your iPad or another device with AirDrop

// specs

Platforms
iPhone and iPad
Processing
On your device
Storage
Only on your device and in your normal device backup
Export
PDF recipe cards and cost sheets, CSV, one backup file
Network
Not needed: works with no connection
Account
None, not even optional
Data collected
None
Price model
10 recipes free, with every feature, then buy once
OS updates
Free compatibility updates

your device

  • app
  • on-device processing
  • your files

no connection

internet

  • our server doesn't exist
  • cloud sync no connection
  • ads no connection
  • analytics no connection
How every Cleanware app is built: everything happens on your device. There's no server for your data to go to.

Fair pricing

US$24.99One payment

one-time purchase, unlocks unlimited recipes

Free for 10 recipes with every feature. A single purchase of US$24.99 unlocks unlimited recipes forever. No subscription, ever. Family Sharing supported.

In the workshop. This page will link to the stores at launch.

Data Not Collected

Private by design

  • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking
  • Your recipes stay on your device
  • Works with no connection

Read the privacy policy

In English and Spanish, with VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, dark mode and iPad layouts.

Costs and suggested prices are estimates based on the prices and quantities you enter. Margena is not accounting, tax or legal advice and does not produce invoices or nutrition labels.

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