Kostly Reviews and Details

Questions & Answers

1. What makes Kostly unique?

   Kostly is a dish costing tool for professional kitchens. It shows you the real food cost of each dish, based on proper units of measurement, yields, and actual data — not estimates.

2. Why should a person choose Kostly over its competitors?

   Kostly only calculates cost when the data is sufficient. That's why every dish and subrecipe comes with a Cost Confidence indicator, so you know when you can trust the number and when it needs review.

3. How would you describe the primary audience of Kostly?

   chef,restaurant,hotel

4. What's the story behind Kostly?

   How the idea started

   I'm a chef. And for years I made daily decisions about ingredients, menus, and prices — without always having a clear picture of costs.

   I knew what sold.

   I knew what people liked. But often I didn't know what really made a profit.

   What I saw in practice

   In most of the restaurants I worked or collaborated with, costing was done:

   roughly,

   rarely,

   usually in Excel.

   The prices of the ingredients changed, but the food cost was not updated.

   And so, dishes that we considered "strong" turned out to be loss-making in practice.

   Not out of ignorance.

   Out of lack of tools.

   The real problem

   The chef and the restaurateur are called upon to make critical decisions:

   what goes on the menu

   what goes out

   what goes up in price

   Without reliable data, these decisions are made on instinct.

   And instinct is not enough for a sustainable business.

   Why Kostly was created

   Kostly was started to solve exactly this problem.

   To have:

   clear costing per dish,

   real food cost,

   a clear picture of profit,

   without complex systems and without Excel.

   A tool made from the kitchen to the business, not the other way around.

   The vision

   Starting in Greece, Kostly's goal is to help restaurants across Europe — and internationally — work with data, not assumptions.

   Because a good dish deserves to be profitable.

5. Which are the primary technologies used for building Kostly?

   Kostly is built using modern web technologies including React, TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind CSS for the frontend, Supabase for authentication, database and backend services, and Stripe for subscription management and payments. AI-powered features are integrated to automate invoice scanning, recipe analysis and food cost optimization.

6. Who are some of the biggest customers of Kostly?

   Kostly is trusted by independent chefs, restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels and hospitality businesses. As a growing SaaS platform, we're continuously expanding our customer base while helping food professionals simplify costing, improve profitability and save time.