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Free Food Cost Calculator (Recipe Costing Template)
The template private chefs, caterers and home food businesses use to standardize recipes and calculate food cost — ready in minutes.
A standardized recipe is the sheet where the exact quantities and steps of each dish are written down. It's the starting point for knowing your true cost and for keeping the taste the same no matter who is on the line that day.
What's inside the template
The full dish sheet
Name, category, owner and version date, so everyone cooks the same recipe.
Yield and portion size
How many portions it makes and how much each one weighs — no guessing by eye.
Ingredients with quantity and unit
Every ingredient with its exact quantity and unit, ready for your shopping list.
Dish cost and food cost percentage
Add up the ingredients, see the total cost and what percentage of your price it is.
Why is it better than a loose Excel file?
- A template organizes the information, but you still update the cost by hand every time a supplier price changes.
- With the app you load your ingredients and prices once, and every recipe cost and shopping list recalculates itself.
- You also get production lists, menu engineering and alerts when a supplier raises a price.
What if, instead of updating a spreadsheet by hand, you had an app that did the math for you?