Recipe costing · food cost
Build each dish from the stock you already buy. Walnut adds up what its ingredients cost you and shows the margin against the menu price. Then every sale takes those ingredients off your stock.
£0 plan10 recipes · 100 stock items · Advanced removes the limits
£0 plan: 1 location · reports show the last 24 hours · other limits apply. See every limit
| Ingredient | Per dish | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken thigh | 180 g | £0.90 |
| Masala saucebatch recipe | 150 ml | £0.60 |
| Basmati rice | 90 g | £0.12 |
| Fresh coriander | 5 g | £0.05 |
| Single cream | 30 ml | £0.14 |
| Plate cost | £1.81 | |
How it works
Open Recipe, find the dish you want to cost and tap Create Recipe on it.
Pick each one from your stock and say how much one dish uses. The unit comes from the stock item, the cost from what you paid.
Walnut adds up what the dish costs to make and shows its margin against the menu price.
From then on, every sale takes those ingredients off stock. One recipe per dish; tap Update to change it.
Reports → Food CostEvery dish's cost in one report.
How to build a recipe and see your food cost · 2:18
Beyond the plate
A recipe is only as good as the stock behind it. These are part of the same stock, on every plan.
Free tool · no sign-up
Type in what the ingredients cost and the menu price. It takes the VAT off for you and shows the food cost, the GP, and the price to charge for the margin you want. Works on your phone.
10 recipes and 100 stock items, enough to cost your best sellers. Advanced removes the limits. Other £0-plan limits: 1 location, reports show the last 24 hours.
Questions
Yes. Once a dish has a recipe, Walnut shows what it costs to make and its margin against the menu price. Every dish's cost is in the Food Cost report under Reports. To work out GP without VAT, the free GP calculator does it for you.
From your stock. Each ingredient's unit comes from its stock item, and its cost from what you paid for it.
Every sale takes that dish's ingredients off your stock. Each dish has one recipe; tap Update to change it.
Yes, with a batch recipe. Set the batch's yield and ingredients, record each batch you make, and use it in your dishes like any other stock item.
10 recipes and 100 stock items on the £0 plan. Advanced removes the limits. The GP calculator has no limit and needs no account.
How to build a recipe and see your food cost2:18 · video and written steps
How to make batch recipes and record production2:50 · video and written steps
How to add stock items and set reorder points3:10 · video and written steps10 recipes and 100 stock items on the £0 plan, with every sale taking its ingredients off stock. No card, no contract.
£0 plan: 1 location · reports show the last 24 hours · other limits apply. See every limit
