Affordable recipe management software for France

French kitchens have kept the fiche technique for generations: a standardized spec sheet for a dish, listing quantities, yields, and cost so that any cook can reproduce it and any chef can see the margin. The discipline is excellent. The problem is the format — a paper card or a static spreadsheet is out of date the moment a supplier changes a price, and updating a whole binder of fiches by hand is nobody's idea of a good service.

Cucinovo is the fiche technique made living. You capture each recipe the way you already think about it — ingredients, quantities, yields, method — and it calculates the cost per portion automatically. The structure is familiar; the maths simply keeps itself current.

Reusable preparations map cleanly onto sub-recipes. A sauce mère, a fond, or any base you make once and use across the carte becomes its own costed recipe. Drop it into every dish that relies on it, and when the price of an ingredient moves you update it once — every fiche that depends on it recalculates. That is the part a paper card could never do.

Pricing is public and quoted in euros, so you can evaluate the whole thing without a demo call. Cucinovo runs on EU-hosted infrastructure in Helsinki with GDPR as the default, so a restaurant anywhere in France keeps its recipe and cost data inside the EU without a separate compliance exercise.

Cucinovo is built around automatic recipe costing. If you want to try the maths before signing up, our free food cost calculator runs a single recipe in your browser. And if you are weighing Cucinovo against other tools, we keep honest side-by-side comparisons.