Recipe Cost and Menu Price Calculator
Recipe Cost and Menu Price: a planned Super Calculator tool. Covers ingredients with purchase unit. Stub page while the tool and its worked example are.
Recipe Cost and Menu Price Calculator is a planned calculator in the business section of Super Calculator, covering hospitality economics.
What this calculator will compute
Inputs: ingredients with purchase unit, cost, yield (%) and portion size and target food cost (%).
Outputs: plate cost (currency), suggested menu price, actual food cost (%) and contribution margin per dish.
Formula, recorded as scope and not yet verified against a primary source: Plate cost = sum over ingredients of (as-purchased cost / yield factor) * portion quantity, where the yield factor accounts for trim and cooking loss. Menu price = plate cost / target food cost %.
Status
This page is a stub. The calculator is not built, no figure on this page has been verified against the authority that sets it, and nothing here should be used to make a decision. The page exists so that the site structure is complete and so that articles can link this concept on first mention.
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