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Recipe Cost Builder

Drag ingredients in from Invoice Cost Tracker, give each one a weight, and see plate cost and food cost % update live. No ingredients yet? Add them by hand below instead.

Your Ingredients

Ingredients name

No account? Use the same name you saved ingredients under on Invoice Cost Tracker. Drag one into the recipe below, or tap the + to add it. This same name is also where your saved recipes live.

Recipe

Drag ingredients here

Custom ingredients

For anything not in Your Ingredients.

IngredientCost ($)

Menu price

Results

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Food Cost %

Plate cost $0.00

Menu price $0.00

Gross margin per plate $0.00

General guideline: most restaurants target 28–35% food cost. Pizza, with its low ingredient cost per slice, often runs 22–30%.

Save & load your recipes

Recipe name

Batch yield

Unit

Saved locally under your ingredients name above — no password, no account. Loading a recipe re-pulls current costs from Your Ingredients. Batch yield (e.g. "this recipe makes 16 fl oz of ranch") is optional but lets Waste Tracking cost out partial batches by weight or volume.