Last updated: September 30, 2026
Terms of Service — Chef Cost Lab
These Terms govern your use of Chef Cost Lab, a subscription software service for restaurant back-of-house cost intelligence, operated as a sole proprietorship based in British Columbia, Canada.
1. The service
Chef Cost Lab provides tools to record and analyze restaurant costs (sales, food cost, purchases, inventory, waste, labor, recipes, menu engineering). Reports and insights are informational aids for business decisions, not professional accounting or financial advice.
2. Plans and billing
Monthly: $9.99 CAD per active restaurant, per month.
Annual: $95.88 CAD per active restaurant, per year.
Free trial: 14 days, no credit card required to start. If no card is added by the end of the trial, your subscription is paused: nothing is charged and your data is kept until you add a card or cancel.
Billing is per active restaurant on your account. Archived restaurants are not billed. A demo restaurant, if provided, is free.
Prices are in CAD and do not include taxes. If tax collection becomes required, it will be added at checkout.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe under Stripe's terms.
3. Cancellation and refunds
You may cancel at any time from the Billing section. Your subscription stays active until the end of the paid billing period; no partial-period refunds are issued. If you cancel during the free trial, you will not be charged.
4. Your data
Data you enter remains yours. You are responsible for its accuracy. You may export your data at any time while your account is active. Team members you invite act under your account and your responsibility.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to misuse the service, attempt to access other users' data, or resell access to the service without authorization.
6. Intellectual property
Chef Cost Lab — the app, its reports, designs, layouts, text, and code — is our intellectual property. You may use and export your own data, but you may not scrape, copy, reproduce, or distribute the app's content, reports, designs, or layouts, and you may not reverse-engineer the app, in whole or in part, without our written permission.
7. Availability and liability
We aim for reliable service but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability is limited to the fees you paid in the 12 months before a claim. We are not liable for business decisions made based on the app's reports.
8. Changes
We may update these Terms; material changes will be communicated through the app or by email. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
9. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada.