Food Cost Calculator

PHP + MySQL / MariaDB

Dashboard

Inventory Items
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Waste/Yield Items
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Recipes
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Recipe Ingredients
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Inventory

Add invoice ingredients and purchase costs.

Waste & Yield

Calculate trim, waste, cooking loss, and usable cost.

Recipes

Build recipes, portions, and nested recipe ingredients.

Production

Total ingredient needs for estimates and production.

Correct workflow

  1. Inventory: enter invoice ingredients in lb, oz, kg, g, or each.
  2. Waste & Yield: use this for meat, vegetables, trim loss, cooking loss, and final usable product.
  3. Recipes: enter recipe ingredients in grams or kg. You can also add another recipe as an ingredient.
  4. Recipe Final Batch Yield: enter the real finished batch weight. This handles dough, sauces, reductions, and cooked prep.
  5. Number of Portions: enter dough balls, containers, trays, pieces, or portions per batch.
  6. Production: enter how many portions you need and the app totals the required ingredients, including nested recipes.

Fast example: pizza dough

Add flour, water, salt, yeast, and oil as inventory ingredients.

In the dough recipe, add your formula in grams or kg.

  • Final Batch Yield: finished dough weight, such as 17.52 kg
  • Number of Portions: dough balls, such as 60
Create Recipe Add Inventory

Production example

If you produce 5 Tomato Sauce and 3 Pizza Margherita, Production totals matching ingredients together.

If Pizza Margherita includes 1 Pizza Dough, and Pizza Dough contains flour, water, salt, and yeast, Production expands the dough and adds those ingredients to the final total.

Open Production