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Food cost calculator

Add up a dish's ingredient costs, set the food-cost percentage you want to keep, and get the suggested selling price and what's left to cover everything else. It all stays in your browser.

Dish ingredients

Add your first ingredient to calculate the food cost.

Target food cost

Usually between 25% and 35%. The lower it is, the more is left.

Result

Add your first ingredient with its cost: the suggested price and what's left will show up here.

How it works

  1. 01List the dish's ingredients with their cost.
  2. 02Set the food-cost % you want to keep.
  3. 03Read the suggested price, what's left to cover and the resulting food cost.

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