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Recipe Costing

Find your true cost per portion, from ingredients to labor and packaging, and get a recommended sell price.

Recipe Library & Pantry

Save your recipes, ingredients and packaging costs once, and reuse them every time you cost.

Test Kitchen

Run the numbers before you scale up, offer a discount or commit to an event.

Recipe Scaling

See how costs change at any batch size

Discount Pricing

Test percentage off, BOGO, bundles and tiers

Event Planning

Plan and know your potential profit before an event

THE TABLE

PRICING

Changelog

Updates, improvements and bug fixes for the Roux app.

v3.0 · OCTOBER 26, 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • The Table: a community space for food makers to share extra ingredients, buy in bulk together, sell equipment, and ask or share. Now piloting with Roux members in the Detroit metro area
  • Four post types with a guided start: Have extra, Buy together, Selling, and Ask or share
  • Private messages with the poster on any post
  • Email notifications for new messages, which you can turn off in your profile settings

v2.4 · OCTOBER 2026

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Pantry redesigned: browse ingredients by category, and see when you last checked each price
  • Discount Modeling renamed to Discount Pricing [confirm the month]
  • Recipe Costing suggests matching Pantry items for each ingredient and lets you pick when there’s more than one match [confirm]

v2.3.1 · SEPTEMBER 2026

BUG FIXES

  • Recipes using grams were being converted to ounces in some weight calculations
  • Recipe Scaling now carries over weights for “not listed” ingredients
  • Discount Modeling break-even now uses your latest recipe costs
  • Event Planning now uses your latest ingredient costs
  • Printed and PDF recipes now show the correct weights
  • Duplicating a recipe now keeps its saved costs and sell price
  • Your packaging upcharge now saves with the recipe

v2.3 · SEPTEMBER 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • “Not listed” unit with weight estimates: describe an ingredient that has no standard weight and Roux estimates it for you
  • View any saved recipe with its full cost breakdown, and print it
  • New units: liters, milliliters, pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Packaging upcharge is now entered as a simple percentage
  • Removed units that gave unreliable costs: stick, can and pinch

v2.2.1 · SEPTEMBER 2026

BUG FIXES

  • Event Planning wasn’t scaling labor with batch size, so net profit came out too high on scaled recipes
  • Canceled subscriptions now show the correct status and end date

v2.2 · SEPTEMBER 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • Event Planning dashboard: upcoming events, a calendar color-coded by event type, and past events
  • Log your results after an event and compare what you sold to what you projected
  • Discount Modeling now covers buy one get one, bundles and tiered volume pricing, along with percentage off
  • Bundle pricing help: set a target discount or margin and Roux suggests a bundle price
  • Include your operating costs in Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling to see your true profit

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Event Planning is now a 3-step flow (event details, products, event costs) with itemized costs like booth fees, permits and travel
  • Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling show results side by side with your inputs
  • Packaging items now have a quantity needed per portion, and it carries through to Recipe Scaling and Event Planning
  • 5 new glossary terms: batch cost, net profit, revenue, MOQ and case pack pricing
  • Saved scenarios removed from Recipe Scaling and Discount Modeling

v2.1 · AUGUST 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • Recipe import: paste a recipe, upload a document or take a photo, and Roux fills in your ingredients for you to review
  • Profile photos
  • A short welcome for new members to set up their name, business and photo

v2.0 · JULY 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • Operating Costs: add your monthly fixed costs, like rent, insurance and subscriptions, and Roux works out your overhead rate per hour

v1.1 · JULY 2026

WHAT’S NEW

  • Know your dough: a help button on every screen with plain-language explanations of food business terms
  • Glossary with 20 terms, from food cost percentage to break-even
  • Packaging & Supplies tab in your Pantry, so bags, boxes, labels and jars are saved like ingredients

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Recipe Costing redesigned: fewer screens between steps, labor and packaging can be turned on or off, and a live food cost slider in the final step shows your sell price change as you adjust it
  • Recipes and Pantry now sit together under Library in the menu

v1.0.1 · JULY 2026

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed an issue that kept some subscription payments from processing
  • Fixed a step navigation issue in Recipe Costing
  • Signing up with an email that already has an account now shows an error
  • Fixed several mobile layout issues

v1.0 · JULY 1, 2026
Public launch.

WHAT’S NEW

  • Roux opens to everyone with a 3-day free trial, then $15/month or $160/year
  • Recipe Costing, Recipes & Pantry, and Test Kitchen (Recipe Scaling, Discount Modeling, Event Planning) available to all members