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Estimate a menu item’s food-cost view.

Enter example values to compare a menu price with ingredient and packaging costs. This calculator runs in your browser, keeps inputs in memory, and does not send or save them.

MENU MARGIN ESTIMATORIN-MEMORY ONLY

Food + packaging ratio—

Contribution before other costs—

Enter a menu price and cost assumptions to calculate.

ASSUMPTIONS

Start with numbers you can explain.

The calculation is (ingredient cost + packaging cost) ÷ menu price for the ratio, and menu price minus those two entered costs for contribution before other costs. No inputs leave this page.