Restaurant Menu Engineering & Prime Cost
Connect menu mix, recipe cost, ingredient changes, channel fees, and labor to item contribution and total prime cost.
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What you get
A useful first version with the main workflow already mapped out.
- Menu-engineering quadrant
- Recipe and ingredient cost
- Prime-cost bridge
- Price and portion simulator
Sample data
Six synthetic months of checks, menu items, modifiers, recipes, ingredient yields and costs, dayparts, channels, discounts, waste, labor, and wages.
Measures included
- Prime cost
- Food cost
- Labor cost
- Item contribution
- Popularity
Connect your data
Start with the sample rows, then replace them with the systems you already use.
CSV
File import
POS item, modifier, discount, labor, waste, and invoice exports
Google Sheets
Direct connector
Recipes, yields, ingredient costs, wages, and menu targets
Stripe
Direct connector
Online order payments, channel receipts, fees, and refunds
Postgres
Direct connector
Normalized check, item, recipe, ingredient, labor, and cost facts
Make it yours
Describe a change in plain English and keep adapting the tool as the work changes.
- 01Use different thresholds by menu category
- 02Add happy-hour menu economics
- 03Model a vendor ingredient increase
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