Restaurant Food Cost Calculator | Recipe Costing & Menu Pricing Spreadsheet for Restaurants

Stop guessing what your dishes actually cost.

This professional Excel workbook helps restaurants, cafés, caterers, cloud kitchens, bakeries and food businesses calculate ingredient costs, recipe costs and profitable menu prices in one simple system.

Update your ingredient purchase prices and use the calculator to understand exactly how much each recipe costs and what selling price is required to meet your target food cost.

What You Receive

One editable Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) workbook containing:

1. Food Cost Calculator Create your own recipe and automatically calculate:

• Total Recipe Cost
• Cost Per Serving
• Food Cost %
• Gross Profit Per Serving
• Gross Margin
• Suggested Selling Price
• Food Cost Target Status
• Ingredient Cost Breakdown Chart

2. Ingredients Database

Maintain your own ingredient cost database including:

• Ingredient
• Category
• Purchase Unit
• Pack Quantity
• Pack Cost
• Yield %
• Usable Quantity
• Automatic Cost Per Unit

The workbook also includes 30+ sample ingredients that can be replaced with your own data.

4 Recipe Examples Included

The workbook contains professionally prepared example tabs for:

Chicken Pasta Gourmet Burger Margherita Pizza Caesar Salad

Each example demonstrates how ingredient quantities, food cost, selling price and profitability work together.

Perfect For

Restaurant Owners • Chefs • Café Owners • Caterers • Cloud Kitchens • Bakeries • Food Trucks • Meal Prep Businesses • Small Food Businesses • Kitchen Managers

File Details

File Format: Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) Number of Tabs: 6 Editable: Yes Automatic Calculations: Yes Digital Product: Yes Physical Product: No

Simply replace the sample ingredient prices and recipes with your own business data.

No subscription or specialist restaurant software is required.