FREE KITCHEN OPERATIONS TOOL

Find the cost hiding in an uncoordinated prep day.

Use your own weekly assumptions to model food-cost exposure and repeated-prep-time exposure. Then decide what is worth investigating in your kitchen.

Five editable operating assumptions
Private, browser-only calculation
Estimate only—no savings guarantee

YOUR KITCHEN, YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

Model your margin exposure.

Start with the sample values or replace every field with a number that better reflects your operation.

Average weekly food spend Ingredient cost purchased for one typical week.

Estimated prep, spoilage, and overproduction waste Use your own estimate; this is not an industry benchmark.

Line cooks / prep chefs People regularly involved in prep. Average hourly wage Use the rate relevant to this team. Estimated duplicated prep/setup hours per cook each week This is a visible planning assumption. Adjust it to reflect repeated setups, scattered prep, or other coordination time in your kitchen.

Updates instantly as you type.

HOW TO USE THIS ESTIMATE

Use the number to start a better conversation.

The estimate combines a food-cost percentage you choose with an editable duplicate-prep-time assumption. It does not inspect orders, recipes, schedules, waste logs, or payroll data.

ChefShed is designed to help teams review shared components, batch similar work, plan make-ahead tasks, and coordinate workloads. Whether it reduces a specific kitchen’s costs depends on that kitchen’s workflow, adoption, data, and execution.