Preparation of any product in any size business involves costs of additional products or items used to manufacture the final products. Calculation of the cost of your product is absolutely necessary, especially in a small or medium business. Knowing costs of your product mean successes of your business.

Calculating Menu Food Cost

Calculating Food Cost is a must for every restaurants serious about making profit. Costing your menu food items will help to achieve certain sales goals as well as cost targets. Effective food cost control allows managers to establish correct selling prices, gross profit targets on every menu item, dish of the day sales, items that are making or not making the desired gross profit.

Restaurant managers should know what their actual gross profit margins are on each food item they are selling - this in turn will allow the establishment to charge the correct selling price and hit specific food cost targets.


Menu Costing Template is a really simple spreadsheet that can help when calculating cost of your product (Menu Item) as well as profitability. I would also recommend you to take a look at Restaurant Profit and Loss Template, Beverage Stock Take Template and Food Stock Take Template

Other Small Business Templates and Spreadsheets for Excel

Restaurant P&L Statement Template - with Budget Tool to calculate you monthly and weekly profit and costs.

Restaurant or Bar Stock Take (Food) - In house food stock monitoring and control template for excel.

Bar or Restaurant Beverage Stock Take Template - Beverage stock monitoring and control spreadsheet for excel.

Links to other Excel or Restaurant Software Related Sites we Recommend

www.hotelsmartsuite.com - this site does offer a very well designed software and few services related to Hotel Business including Front Desk, Back Office, Online Booking, Marketing and many more.

www.gomsg.com - Start accepting credit cards and other electronic payments now. Merchant Service Group has a solution for every business.

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