Menu price calculator
Enter ingredients with quantity and purchase price – the calculator works out the food cost per portion, suggests a selling price and shows how much contribution margin each plate earns.
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Dish
Ingredients
Pricing
How it works
Enter the recipe
Ingredients with quantity and purchase price – the calculator converts grams, kilos, millilitres and litres itself.
Choose a method
Your target food cost percentage or a markup factor gives the net price, VAT gives the menu price.
Check it
Contribution margin and actual food cost at the rounded or your own menu price.
Read more: optimise your menu with the contribution margin
Note: the calculator only covers food cost. Staff, rent and energy are paid from the contribution margin – whether it is enough depends on your business.