Free tools · 16 calculators
Free restaurant food cost calculators
Useful math for restaurant operators. Free, no signup, no email required to see your answer. Every result gets a shareable link and prints cleanly — send one to a partner, a bookkeeper, or another owner.
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Costing
What a dish, a batch or a case actually costs you.
Food Cost Percentage Calculator
Menu price and plate cost in — food cost percentage, gross margin, and the price that hits your target out.
10 seconds · no signup
Recipe Cost Calculator
Build a full plate cost line by line — every ingredient, with yield adjustment — then see the margin at your menu price.
Multi-ingredient · shareable
Recipe Costing Spreadsheet Template
A free costing spreadsheet with the formulas already written — AP cost, yield-adjusted EP cost, plate cost and the price that hits your target.
Download · no email
Yield & EP Cost Calculator
Turn an as-purchased price into a true edible-portion cost. Enter what you paid and what you got after trimming — get yield %, EP cost per pound, and cost per portion.
Fixes understated plate costs
Pour Cost Calculator
Calculate cost per pour, pour cost percentage and profit per drink from a bottle price. Includes what a free-pour overpour actually costs you per year.
Includes overpour cost
Pricing & margin
What to charge, and what a price change is worth.
Restaurant Profit Margin Calculator
Three numbers from your menu — see the weekly profit gap between your current price and your target margin.
10 seconds · no signup
Menu Price Calculator
Plate cost and target margin in — the exact menu price out, rounded the way menus actually price.
10 seconds · no signup
Third-Party Delivery Margin Calculator
See exactly what a delivery marketplace's commission does to a dish's contribution margin, and the delivery price that would hold your margin flat.
The 30% question
Price Increase Impact Calculator
Model a menu price increase: what it adds to contribution, how much volume you can lose before it stops paying, and the annual difference.
What $1 is worth
Operations
Pars, variance, labour — the weekly numbers.
Restaurant Break-Even Calculator
Find the sales, monthly covers and daily covers your restaurant needs before it makes a dollar. Enter fixed costs, variable cost ratio and average check.
In covers per day
Labor Cost Percentage Calculator
Calculate fully loaded labor cost percentage including payroll taxes, workers' comp and benefits — the version that matches your P&L, not just gross wages.
Fully loaded
Prime Cost Calculator
Calculate prime cost — COGS plus fully loaded labor as a percentage of sales — plus how many dollars separate you from a 65% target.
The weekly number
Ideal vs. Actual Variance Calculator
Compare theoretical food cost against actual COGS to find your variance in dollars, percentage points, and what it costs you over a year.
Ideal vs actual
Par Level Calculator
Calculate par levels from real usage and delivery frequency instead of guessing. Includes safety stock and the order quantity for today's count.
From real usage
Menu & guests
Menu engineering, QR menus, and what guests actually see.
Menu Engineering Worksheet
Enter your dishes with prices, costs and units sold — get every one sorted into stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs.
Four-quadrant matrix
QR Code Generator
Make a free, high-resolution QR code for your menu, your website or your reviews page. PNG download, no signup, no expiry.
Free · no signup · no expiry
The same math the product runs.
Every tool here uses the formulas Marji applies to real menus — the margin math that recosts a dish the moment a supplier invoice lands. Type your numbers, read your answer. Nothing is emailed unless you ask for the full report.
Want the loop that runs it for you — invoice in, margins recalculated, the exact price fix named? See the demo dashboard on our sample bistro, or check pricing — there's a free forever QR menu tier, and paid plans start at $59 a location.
Not sure what a number means? The costing glossary defines every term with its formula and a worked example.
These calculators are one part of it — everything Marji gives away free is on one page, including the food cost index and the free QR menu.
The numbers behind the math.
Once a week: what moved on ten commodity series, what it does to a typical plate, and one thing worth repricing. No product pitch.