Recipes and costing

Overview

• Available on Starter and higher plans, costing connects ingredient purchase costs to recipes and products so owners can monitor current food cost, target variance, supplier changes, and purchasing opportunities.

When to use this

• Use costing when creating a menu item, updating a recipe, onboarding a supplier, reviewing a price change, or checking which products are above target.

Step-by-step

1. Set the business costing defaults and any store overrides.
2. Create ingredients with the units and yields used by your recipes.
3. Build recipes and link one recipe to each applicable product.
4. Add store supplier purchasing options and pack prices.
5. Review product costs, open cost-change reviews, and savings opportunities from the costing dashboard.

Common mistakes

• Do not mix purchase-pack units with recipe-use units without the correct conversion.
• Do not treat an incomplete recipe cost as a confirmed margin.
• Do not change the preferred supplier option without checking pack size, yield, and effective unit cost.

Troubleshooting

• If a product has no cost, check that it has a recipe and every recipe component has a valid cost path.
• If a supplier price is not reflected, review the supplier connection, ingredient mapping, sync status, and pending cost reviews.