Menu Engineering Calculator
Menu Engineering: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers dishes with price. Stub page: the tool, its formula and a worked example are not published yet.
Menu Engineering Calculator is a planned calculator in the business section of Super Calculator, covering hospitality economics.
What this calculator will compute
Inputs: dishes with price and plate cost and units sold.
Outputs: quadrant per dish, contribution margin per dish, popularity index and menu mix profit.
Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: Classifies each dish by contribution margin against menu average and by popularity index (item sales share / expected equal share), producing the four-quadrant stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs matrix from the Kasavana and Smith method.
Status
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