Cost each dish from its ingredients, hit your target food cost %, and see the suggested menu price. Free, no signup, and everything stays in your browser.
MinimalPOS keeps this updated for you
Costing synced to real purchase prices and stock, with margin alerts — no spreadsheet upkeep.
MinimalPOS records every order, tax, service charge and payment as it happens — so the figures this tool asks you to enter come out of your own sales instead of a spreadsheet.
How this free tool helps
Cost a dish from the ingredients that go into one recipe, calculate the cost per serving, and compare it with your selling price. Set a target food-cost percentage to estimate a menu price, then review the blended cost of your full menu.
Recipe costing helps set a starting price; live sales and stock movement show what happens after launch. MinimalPOS connects menu operations with restaurant inventory, billing, item sales, and reporting.
Explore MinimalPOS Restaurant POSAdd the cost of every ingredient used in the recipe, then divide the total recipe cost by the number of portions it produces. The calculator performs this step for each dish.
The tool divides the dish cost by your chosen target food-cost percentage. Treat the result as a planning estimate and also consider labour, rent, tax, packaging, waste, and local demand.
Yes. Build a list of dishes to compare individual costs and review the blended food cost across the menu.
Yes. The tool supports CSV export so you can keep or continue working with the figures in a spreadsheet.
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