Cost calculation
Use Fillet to calculate the variable cost of production for each recipe and menu item.
Use Fillet to calculate the variable cost of production for each recipe and menu item.
Calculate food cost and labor cost
Fillet calculates the total food cost and total labor cost of each recipe and menu item based on their components and preparation steps.
How is food cost calculated?
Fillet uses your ingredients, recipes, menu items, and prices to calculate the food cost.
Enter one or more prices for each ingredient. Fillet uses the lowest available price, or a preferred price that you specify, to calculate the food cost of each ingredient.
Specify ingredient density. Fillet automatically converts between different units of measurement and can perform mass to volume conversions.
Set the edible portion of each ingredient to make food cost calculation more accurate.
How is labor cost calculated?
Enter your preparation steps and specify the cost per hour for each activity. Fillet calculates the time duration and labor cost for each recipe and menu item.
Scale recipes
Calculate the variable cost of production based on the batch size. Scale up or scale down a recipe based on a scale factor. Preview how the batch size affects the cost of each component.
Use sub-recipes
Reuse the same recipe in multiple places. Update the sub-recipe once to see the changes immediately reflected in all recipes and menu items that contain it.
This is an incredibly powerful feature that saves you time and prevents mistakes.
How do sub-recipes work?
When you change a sub-recipe such as "pie crust", the cost is automatically updated for you in all recipes and menu items that contain it such as "apple pie", "pumpkin pie", and "blueberry pie".
