Know What Every Plate Really Costs
Enter your purchase-pack prices, recipe quantities, usable yields and batch size. The Chef David Food-Cost Calculator will calculate your ingredient costs, total batch cost, portion cost, actual food-cost percentage and suggested menu price.
What the Food-Cost Calculator Does
- Converts purchase-pack prices into recipe costs
- Accounts for trimming and usable yield
- Calculates individual ingredient costs
- Calculates total batch cost
- Calculates cost per portion
- Calculates actual food-cost percentage
- Suggests a menu price based on your target food cost
- Shows gross profit per sale
- Saves cost sheets on your device
- Imports and exports cost-sheet backups
- Prints a professional cost sheet
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Your cost sheets remain stored in your browser on your device. Chef David does not collect, view or sell your recipes, prices or costing information.