With the rise of artificial intelligence tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, many food entrepreneurs are considering using AI to calculate costs and price their recipes.

The idea sounds simple: ask AI to calculate your costs and suggest a selling price.

But in real-world food businesses, things are not that simple.

The Problem with Using AI for Pricing

• You must manually input every ingredient every time
• There are no automatic price updates
• Interpretation errors may occur
• No structured recipe storage
• Every change requires recalculating from scratch
• AI hallucinations may lead to inaccurate results

In other words: it’s time-consuming, inefficient, and risky.

AI Was Not Built for Cost Management

Tools like Gemini are general-purpose systems. They were not designed to handle:

• recipe yield
• labor cost
• packaging cost
• indirect expenses
• technical recipe sheets

This increases the risk of underpricing and financial loss.

How PocketChef Solves This

• Automatic cost calculation
• Real-time price updates
• Organized recipe database
• Margin-based pricing
• Profitability statistics
• Digital Menu

Without needing to ask for anything.

AI Requires Commands. PocketChef Executes.

While AI depends on prompts, PocketChef automates the entire pricing workflow.

You work less — and sell with confidence.

Conclusion

AI can help with ideas. But when it comes to pricing and managing a real food business, you need a specialized tool.

With PocketChef, you avoid costly mistakes and protect your profit margins.