Food Cost Percentage Calculator

Already have a price? Check what it's really running — food cost %, gross profit per plate, and the price that would hit your target. Free, no signup, nothing leaves your browser.

The Item

Ingredients + Q factor + packaging — the pricing calculator builds this

The Verdict

Actual food cost
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Gross profit per plate—
Weekly contribution—
Price needed for target—
Gap vs. current price—
Weekly $ left on the table—

Run every item, not the average

A menu can average 30% food cost while hiding three items running 45% — usually the proteins everyone loves and nobody has re-priced since the last invoice hike. Run each dish through this check quarterly. The fix is rarely dramatic: a fifty-cent bump on a popular plate, a portion adjustment on the outlier, or a garnish swap recovers points nobody ever tastes.

Check the whole menu at once

The Menu Pricing & Food Cost Workbook (Pro) runs this math for every item on one sheet — plus recipe costing, a menu-engineering matrix, and a weekly food-cost tracker. One-time $29, Excel & LibreOffice, no macros.

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