Menu Profit Planner: Recipe Costing & Menu Engineering Spreadsheet

Do you know what each plate actually costs you? Most restaurant and café owners guess, and the guesses quietly eat their margins. The Menu Profit Planner shows the true cost of every dish, whether it's priced right, and which items really make you money.

What you'll know in your first 30 minutes

• The real cost of every plate, including trim and waste
• Which dishes are underpriced, and the price that hits your target food cost
• Which dishes earn the most, and which ones to rework or remove

What's inside

• Ingredient costing that accounts for trimming and waste
• Recipe builder with dropdowns that totals the cost of one plate
• Menu summary with food cost %, profit per plate and a suggested price, flagging each dish OK, Watch or Reprice
• Menu engineering that sorts every dish into Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle or Dog, each with a clear next step
• Settings for your target food cost, tax-inclusive prices and price rounding
• Step-by-step guide and a worked sample menu

Made for

Independent restaurants, cafés, bistros, food trucks and retreat kitchens. No accounting background needed.

Good to know

• Works in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice
• Any currency, room for 200 ingredients and 60 dishes
• Fully editable, no add-ons or subscriptions

Works well with

• Standard Recipe Cards
• Supplier Price Tracker

Read: How to calculate food cost per plate · Menu engineering explained

All 25 tools in one download: Complete Restaurant Collection

Created by Kali Safwat for The Off-Menu Circle.

Digital download (.xlsx). You'll receive the file instantly after purchase.