Free food cost templates for restaurants
Ready-to-use spreadsheets to cost a recipe and track your menu's food cost percentage. Enter your email and download them instantly — then upgrade to FoodCost when the spreadsheet gets painful.
These free food cost templates are spreadsheets (CSV, open in Excel or Google Sheets) that calculate the cost of a recipe from purchase prices, yields and portion sizes, and track the food cost percentage of every dish on your menu against a target.
CSV · Excel / Google Sheets
Recipe costing template
Break a dish down ingredient by ingredient: purchase price, quantity used, yield, and automatic cost per portion and food cost %.
CSV · Excel / Google Sheets
Menu food cost tracker
List every dish with its cost, selling price and food cost %, and see your menu average at a glance against your target.
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What format are they in?
They're CSV files that open directly in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice.
When should I move off a spreadsheet?
Spreadsheets break down once you have many recipes and shared ingredients: change one supplier price and you must hunt down every dish by hand. FoodCost propagates that change instantly and flags dishes that cross your margin target.
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