Restaurants
Menu price from food cost target
Translate a recipe portion cost and your chosen food-cost share into an illustrative menu price.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
menu price = food cost per portion / target food-cost share
The target is your business assumption, not an industry benchmark or guaranteed profit margin. The remainder must cover labor, rent, utilities, commissions and other costs before profit. Taxes and menu-demand effects are not modeled.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Ingredient cost per sellable portion (selected currency): Recipe cost and owner-selected food-cost share. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
- Chosen target food-cost share (%): Recipe cost and owner-selected food-cost share. Owner records or explicit assumption; no account connection or maintained rate tables required.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Price at entered food-cost target is $13.33 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Ingredient cost per sellable portion: $4.00
- Chosen target food-cost share: 30.00 %
- Price at entered food-cost target
- $13.33
- Amount left for all other costs and profit
- $9.33
- Entered food-cost share
- 30.00 %
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Price corresponding to chosen ingredient-cost share.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.