Description

Food Cost Calculator – Enhanced Excel Template for Recipe Costing

💡 Built for Serious Kitchen Management – Now More Powerful Than Ever!

Take control of your recipe costs with this upgraded Food Cost Calculator – a fully automated Excel template designed for chefs, restaurant owners, and culinary pros who need precision, speed, and flexibility.

✅ Key Features:

🔄 Recipes Within Recipes
Use pre-made recipes (like pizza dough or sauces) as ingredients in other recipes – perfect for layered or complex meal prep.

🔁 Automatic Unit Conversion
Convert seamlessly within unit types – volume to volume, weight to weight, etc. Example: cups to tablespoons, kilograms to pounds.

📋 Centralized Recipe Database
All your recipes are stored in one place for quick access, editing, and reuse. Say goodbye to messy, scattered sheets!

💾 Ingredient Database
Track ingredient prices, units, quantities, and automatically calculate unit cost for accurate costing and forecasting.

📉 Smart Food Costing with Profit Targeting
Set your target food cost, define VAT and buffer margins, and instantly get recommended per-serving prices.

⚙️ Built-in VBA Automation (Macros Required)
This template uses simple but powerful VBA code to automate processes and improve usability.
➡️ Macros must be enabled for the tool to work correctly.

👨‍🍳 Easy Recipe Builder Interface
Update and create recipes using dropdowns and guided input – with built-in validation and cost error alerts.

📊 Summary Dashboard
View all your recipes with their cost breakdowns, serving sizes, target margins, and more – all in one clean dashboard.

🧩 Modular Recipe Structure
Link recipes together – use one recipe as an ingredient in another (e.g., using Pizza Dough inside Pizza Margarita).

🔧 System Requirements:

• Microsoft Excel (Desktop) – Macros must be enabled
• Not compatible with Excel Online

🎯 Who is this for?

• Restaurant owners & chefs
• Catering businesses
• Meal prep services
• Food entrepreneurs
• Anyone needing fast, reliable food costing

💸 Save time. Cut costs. Price with confidence.
📥 Download the Enhanced Food Cost Calculator today!