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Recipe cost calculator

Cost out a recipe from your ingredient price list, including trim and cooking loss. See the cost per serving, food cost percentage and a suggested menu price.

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  • Download as .xlsx
Preview of the Recipe cost calculator template

What's inside

Everything is a normal workbook once you open it: change the numbers, rename the sheets and make it yours.

2 sheets
  • Recipe
  • Ingredients
86 formulasTotals, lookups and checks are already worked out, so the sheet updates as you type. 239 filled cells in all.
Built in
  • Charts
  • Conditional formatting
  • Dropdowns
  • Frozen headers
  • 1 chart
  • 3 conditional format rules

A look at the Recipe sheet

The top left of the first sheet, calculated by SheetsBat. Open the template to see all of it.

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1Recipe cost calculator
2Pick ingredients from the list, enter quantities in the ingredient unit and the usable yield.
3RecipeRoasted tomato and red pepper soupBatch cost$21.24
4Servings per batch8Cost per serving$2.66
5Menu price per serving$9.50Food cost27.9%
6Target food cost30%Suggested price$9.00
7Profit per serving$6.84
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9IngredientQuantityUnitCost per unitYieldLine costShare
10Plum tomatoes1,800g$0.002995%$5.4025%
11Red peppers600g$0.004280%$3.1515%
12Yellow onions400g$0.001090%$0.442%
  • recipe
  • food cost
  • restaurant
  • menu pricing

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