See what every plate really costs
Recipes turn every item sold into ingredient consumption. Compare that with what actually left the store and you get the gap per outlet, per ingredient, valued at what you paid.
What it replaces
The paper, calls and spreadsheets this takes off your team's plate.
How it works
Recipes that cost themselves
Build recipes with sub-recipes, yields and portion sizes. Costs update from your latest purchase prices, so menu margins stay current.
- Sub-recipes for gravies and bases
- Yield and trim loss
- Plate cost and margin per menu item
Theoretical against actual
Theoretical consumption comes from items sold × recipe. Actual consumption comes from opening stock, purchases, transfers and closing counts. The difference, after recorded wastage, is your unexplained variance.
- Variance valued at purchase cost
- Drill down from outlet to ingredient
- Trends week on week
Menu decisions with real margins
See which items make money after ingredient cost, and which popular items quietly lose it. Test a price change before you print a new menu.
- Contribution per item
- Price change what-if
- Channel margins for dine-in and delivery
Getting started
The order we set it up in.
Build recipes
Import existing recipes or create them.
Link to menu
Map POS items to recipes.
Count stock
Opening and closing counts.
Review variance
Weekly, per outlet and ingredient.
What changes
What teams using Recipes and Food Cost should expect to see.
- Food cost you can explain line by line
- Menu prices set on current ingredient costs
- Targets per outlet that managers can act on
Questions
What if our recipes aren't documented?
We start with your top-selling items, which usually cover most of consumption, and add the rest over time.
Can recipes differ by outlet?
Yes. An outlet can override portion sizes or ingredients while keeping the brand's base recipe.
Is there a calculator we can try?
Yes. Our free food cost calculator shows the basic calculation for a single item.
See DeepRestaurantAI with your own outlets
We'll connect a sample of your POS data and walk you through sales, purchasing, food cost and DeepObserve.ai camera AI for your format.