The short answer
Open Recipe, tap Create Recipe on the dish, and add each ingredient from your stock with how much one dish uses. Walnut works out what the dish costs to make and its margin against your menu price, and once you save, every one you sell takes those ingredients off your stock.
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Step by step
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0:00By the end of this video, you'll be able to build a recipe for a dish, see what it costs to make, and see its margin.
Find the dish
0:12Step one. Find the dish. Open Recipe. Your made dishes are listed here. Find the one you want, and tap Create Recipe. The recipe takes the dish's name for you.
Add the ingredients
0:39Pick the first ingredient from your stock. Enter how much one wrap uses. Eighty grams of halloumi is nought point nought eight kilograms. The unit comes from the stock item. The cost comes from what you paid for that stock.
0:55Tap Add Ingredient for the rest. One tortilla, and forty grams of salad.
Read the cost and margin
1:14Walnut adds it up. This wrap costs one pound forty-five to make. Next to it is the margin against your menu price of eight pounds fifty.
Save the recipe
1:28Tap Create Recipe. From now on, every wrap you sell takes these ingredients off your stock. Back in the list, you can see its cost and margin at a glance. A dish can only have one recipe, so to change it, tap Update.
Recap
1:46To recap. Open Recipe, and tap Create Recipe on the dish. Add each ingredient from your stock, and Walnut works out the cost and the margin. You'll find every dish's cost in the Food Cost report, under Reports. Thanks for watching. In the next video, learn batch recipes for things you make ahead, like sauces. Start free at walnutpos.com.