Kitchen and catering · KC-01

Recipe Costing Sheet

A free printable recipe costing sheet — ingredients with pack prices, unit costs, quantities and trim waste, worked out per batch and per portion.

First page of the Recipe Costing Sheet — Work out what a dish actually costs to make as you make it, including the trimmings, so a price is set from a figure rather than a feeling.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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What this sheet is for

Work out what a dish actually costs to make as you make it, including the trimmings, so a price is set from a figure rather than a feeling.

Who it is for

Cafés, food trucks, market stalls, caterers, bakeries, pubs and anyone selling food they cook themselves.

How to use it

  1. Cost from the pack price you actually pay, not the shelf price.
  2. Include trim and peel waste. It is where the margin goes.
  3. Divide by the portions you actually get, not the portions you intended.
  4. Write down what the figure excludes — labour, energy, packaging.
  5. Re-cost your top few dishes when supplier prices move.

What is on the sheet

The layout is fixed at a size that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the A4 and Letter files are visually identical and print at full size on either. Rows are set at a height that an adult can actually write a date and a few words into with a pen — most printable tables are built in a word processor and never tested with one.

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