Free tools for food businesses
Eight small calculators for the questions that come up every day in a food business: what should this dish cost on the menu, how many plates do I need to sell, what does a trimmed kilo of meat really cost, what do I charge on the delivery app.
Each one comes with a worked example already loaded. Replace the numbers with yours, copy the link and send it to your business partner or your accountant. No account, and nothing is stored.
- Food cost calculator for small food businessesThe main calculator: loaded cost per unit with ingredients, packaging, your time, gas, waste, tax and commission.Open →
- Menu price calculatorEnter what a dish costs and the food cost percentage you aim for: get the menu price, with tax and rounded to a clean number.Open →
- Markup and margin calculatorConvert markup to margin and back, and get the price from your cost. So you never charge less than you think you do.Open →
- Break-even calculatorFixed costs, price and variable cost: how many units or plates you need to sell per month and per day to stop losing money.Open →
- Recipe scalerScale a recipe from 10 to 37 portions, or to any batch size, with every quantity worked out exactly and rounded so you can weigh it.Open →
- Yield and trim calculatorEnter the price per kilo you paid, the trim loss and the cooking loss, and see what each usable kilo of meat, fish or produce really costs.Open →
- Delivery app price calculatorWork out what to charge on a delivery app so you keep the same margin as in your shop after the commission, the packaging and the tax.Open →
- Unit price comparisonCompare up to four pack sizes of an ingredient and see which is cheapest per kilo, litre or unit, and how much you save.Open →
- Catering quote calculatorGuests, food cost per person, staff, transport and rentals: the price per person and the total for your quote.Open →
What does it really cost you?
Put your recipe into the free calculator: ingredients, packaging, your time and the gas. You get the cost per unit and your margin in two minutes, no account needed.