# Kitchen Margin — Recipe Costs & Invoice Capture

> Recipe Costs & Invoice Capture (iPhone/iPad app by Norman Zeng.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kitchen-margin/id6816125261 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Norman Zeng](https://appshunter.io/developer/1868465339)
- Category: Business, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English, Korean, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-10-04
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is Kitchen Margin?

Know what goes into each cup or plate, and what changes when supplier prices rise.

Kitchen Margin helps independent café, restaurant, bakery and bar owners calculate ingredient and packaging costs. Available in English, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

START WITH ONE MENU ITEM
Enter the size and price of a purchased pack, then the quantity needed for one serving. Include cups and lids when they apply. Manual costing, local CSV/TSV imports, reports and backup exports are free. Use your own supplier prices; templates are editable starting points.

SEE WHAT CHANGED
Home brings together saved cost changes and items above your cost target with confirmed selling-price tax treatment. Trace a cost change through purchase price, quantity per serving and retained source evidence. Review your selling price without changing a POS or printed menu.

IMPORT WITHOUT STARTING AGAIN
Import ingredient packs and prices from a file or pasted table. Reuse confirmed column mappings and explicitly match differently named rows to existing ingredients. Review the proposed changes before saving. Importing a price list does not create a purchase record.

KEEP REPORTS TOGETHER
Sales & purchases, Item sales, Menu pricing, Ingredient prices and Measured waste are accessible from Home. Reports explain missing evidence and link to the records for that month. Purchases are not the same as ingredients consumed, and recorded waste is not total waste.

TRY A FINISHED EXAMPLE
Explore a UK café in GBP or a Taiwan café in TWD, alongside Australian, coffee/bar and restaurant examples. See calculated costs and saved price changes immediately. Recipes, costs and tax assumptions are illustrative, not venue accounts or endorsements. Loading an example saves a complete local backup before replacing your kitchen.

PURCHASE TAX AND SELLING PRICES
Set your business country and purchase-tax rate, then separately specify whether purchase tax is recoverable. Each invoice price retains its chosen treatment and rate. Mixed invoices can contain zero-tax and taxable lines. Older prices are kept as entered until clarified. This is recipe costing, not tax advice or tax filing.

OPTIONAL MONTHLY CAPTURE
Capture reads invoices, sales reports and recipe cards from photos or supported documents on your device. Check recognised dates, quantities, packs, prices and totals against the retained source before saving. Routine repeat-invoice choices can be suggested; changed or conflicting details need review.

Capture is an optional auto-renewing one-month subscription at the local price shown by Apple before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation or after an eligible introductory offer. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in Apple subscription settings. Expiry preserves your library and saved or unfinished reviews.

No app account is required. Your records stay on your device unless you export them or include them in device backups. No developer cloud sync or automatic backup service is included. Item costs exclude wages, rent, overheads and unrecorded waste; they do not measure net business profit.

Privacy: https://normzeng.github.io/kitchen-margin-support/privacy/
Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Support: https://normzeng.github.io/kitchen-margin-support/support/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kitchen Margin Capture | $19.99 | per month |


## Is Kitchen Margin safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Kitchen Margin.

## Is Kitchen Margin legit?

Kitchen Margin has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kitchen Margin is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-10-28

• Restore a Kitchen Margin browser JSON backup on iPhone after reviewing what will replace the current kitchen. A complete local recovery backup is saved first.
• Clearer backup guidance: browser backups do not include original photos or PDFs. Capture does not add cloud sync or automatic backups.
• Clearer batch and per-serving cost labels, supplier case-price guidance, easier price updates, a simpler first-use Home, and refreshed light and dark colors.

### 1.3 — 2026-10-15

• Explore finished Australian, UK and Taiwan café examples, with ingredients, packaging, menu prices and saved cost changes.
• Traditional Chinese interface, Taiwan invoice and daily-sales document support, and UK date and VAT handling.
• Review purchase tax separately from your business’s recovery choice. Original invoice totals and existing saved prices stay intact.
• Repeat deliveries can reuse compatible supplier and tax choices, while changed or uncertain details remain available for review.
• Reuse column mappings for free CSV/TSV/paste imports and explicitly match renamed rows to existing ingredients.
• Follow clearer cost-change explanations to their saved sources, compare proposed selling prices, and review missing report evidence from Home.
• Home puts unfinished receiving and price updates first. Review missing selling prices, saved dates and price sources, with current pricing actions before detailed costs.
• More reliable invoice currency and row recognition, safer recipe unit changes and scaling, and improved handling of supplier edits and multipage documents.
• Ingredient table imports use clear source dates to protect newer prices. Older or undated evidence stays available without silently replacing established costs.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-11

• Home now brings together menu cost changes, items above your cost target and this month’s recorded totals.
• Find Sales & purchases, Item sales, Menu pricing, Ingredient prices and Measured waste together in All reports. Each report keeps its figures, scope and next actions in one place.
• Simpler setup explains what you buy, what goes into one serving and how the cost is calculated. Optional Coffee bar and Bar templates help you start.
• Explore populated coffee, bar and restaurant example menus, with sample prices and records ready for analysis.
• Korean interface and on-device Korean text recognition in Capture. Review recognized amounts against your document before saving.
• Clearer saved-cost summaries, selling-price editing and larger-text layouts.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-04

No release notes.

## More apps by Norman Zeng

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All apps by Norman Zeng: https://appshunter.io/developer/1868465339

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