Restaurant Inventory, Menu Costing & Menu Engineering Software

Control food costs. Price your menu accurately. Understand which menu items make you money.

EZchef is restaurant management software designed to help restaurants and food service operators manage food and beverage inventory, calculate accurate menu and recipe costs, and analyze menu profitability.

Built on Microsoft Excel for Windows, EZchef combines inventory management, menu costing, and menu engineering in one practical system without the complexity or ongoing expense of many restaurant software platforms.

Try EZchef free for 15 days or explore the features below.

Restaurant Inventory Management

Manage food and beverage inventory, simplify physical inventory counts, organize products by category or location, create vendor order guides, and keep ingredient costs current. Supported distributor versions can import your restaurant’s order guide and pricing directly into EZchef.

Menu & Recipe Costing

Build fully costed menu items and sub-recipes using current ingredient prices. When linked inventory costs change, EZchef automatically updates the cost of affected recipes so you can better understand food cost, gross margin, and menu pricing.

Menu Engineering & Profitability Analysis

Use your restaurant’s sales mix to compare menu-item popularity, food cost, and gross profit. EZchef’s menu engineering tools help identify which items contribute most to profitability and where pricing, cost, or menu mix changes may deserve attention.

Why Restaurants Choose EZchef

EZchef was developed for restaurant operators who need practical cost-control tools without an overly complicated restaurant management system.

With EZchef you can:

  • Manage food and beverage inventory
  • Import pricing from supported foodservice distributors
  • Create and update menu and sub-recipe costs
  • Track ingredient price changes
  • Calculate food-cost percentages and gross margins
  • Produce inventory count sheets and vendor order guides
  • Analyze menu-item profitability using actual sales mix
  • Run “what-if” scenarios for price, cost, and sales changes

EZchef was created by restaurant industry professionals and has evolved from decades of hands-on restaurant management and cost-control experience.

Who Uses EZchef?

EZchef is designed for independent restaurants, bars, cafés, foodservice operators, restaurant managers, chefs, and multi-unit operators who want better control over inventory, recipe costs, menu pricing, and profitability.

Whether you enter inventory manually or import product information from a supported distributor, EZchef provides a practical way to bring inventory management, menu costing, and menu analysis together.

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Screenshot of EZchef Restaurant Software for Inventory, Menu Costing and Menu Analysis

Supported Foodservice Distributors:

EZchef offers versions designed to simplify product and pricing imports from many major food service distributors.

  • Sysco (US and Canada)
  • US Foods
  • Gordon Foodservice (US and Canada)
  • Ben E. Keith
  • Shamrock
  • Performance Foodservice
  • Cheney Brothers
  • Food Service of America (now US Foods)
  • Jordano’s
  • Flanagan Foodservice
  • Tannis (now Sysco Tannis)
  • VIP Foodservice
  • Henry’s
  • Stanz
  • Upper Lakes Foods
  • Merchants

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