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Restaurant F&B Costing Tool

Food Cost % & Recipe Margin Calculator

Build itemized recipe costs, calculate Food Cost Percentage, gross cash contribution, and classify dishes into Menu Engineering quadrants.

Recipe Costing Builder

Ingredient Breakup

Margin & Profit Analysis

Total Dish Cost (COGS)

₹127.00

Cash Margin / Dish

₹213.00

Food Cost Percentage

Target: 28% - 32%

37.4%

Gross Margin Share: 62.6% of selling price.

Est. Monthly Gross Profit Contribution

₹53,250.00

Based on 250 units sold per month.

Menu ClassificationPlowhorse

Low Margin & High Popularity: Popular dish with thin profit. Modestly reprice or optimize ingredient portioning to boost cash margin.

Why Ideal vs. Actual Food Cost Matters

This calculator computes your Ideal (Theoretical) Food Cost based on exact recipe portioning. If your monthly stock audit reveals an Actual Food Cost that is 4–6% higher than this ideal figure, the gap represents operational leakage: unbilled dishes, over-portioning, kitchen waste, or untracked spoilage.

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