Food & hospitality
Recipe portion costing Calculator
Combine ingredient costs, waste and packaging into a portion cost. This free recipe portion costing calculator shows the calculation and its assumptions so you can compare your own figures.
Your results
Combine ingredient costs, waste and packaging into a portion cost.
Calculated outcomes
- Ingredient Cost
- €10.00
- Saleable portions after waste
- 18
- Batch revenue
- €90.00
- Packaging Cost
- €9.00
- Total batch costs
- €19.00
- Gross Profit Per Portion
- €3.94/portion
- Ingredients and packaging / selling price
- 21.11%
Assumptions and estimates
- Method: Waste reduces saleable portions before revenue and packaging are calculated. Batch costs include all ingredients plus packaging per saleable portion; gross profit is revenue less batch costs.
- Enter individual ingredient amounts already converted to batch cost. Use the same VAT basis for sales and costs. Excludes labour, premises, delivery fees and other overheads.
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How the recipe portion costing calculation works
Waste reduces saleable portions before revenue and packaging are calculated. Batch costs include all ingredients plus packaging per saleable portion; gross profit is revenue less batch costs.
Enter individual ingredient amounts already converted to batch cost. Use the same VAT basis for sales and costs. Excludes labour, premises, delivery fees and other overheads.
Using this calculator
- Enter your own figures in the labelled inputs. Keep the currencies, units and time periods consistent.
- Choose any applicable rate profile, pattern or assumption shown for this tool. Open additional inputs when relevant.
- Review cost per portion and batch gross profit before overheads, then read the stated assumptions and eligibility conditions before using the result.
Worked example
This is a static example using illustrative inputs, not facts about you or today’s date. The displayed eligibility selections and assumptions apply only to this example.
See example inputs
- Ingredient batch costs (€), comma or newline separated
- 5, 3, 2
- Batch portions before waste
- 20
- Batch waste (%)
- 10
- Packaging per saleable portion (€)
- 0.5
- Selling price per portion on same tax basis (€)
- 5
- Cost Per Portion
- €1.06/portion
- Batch gross profit before overheads
- €71.00