https://foodtech.guru/ 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/blog.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/article_1_perfect_recipe_cost_card.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/article_2_how_to_calculate_recipe_cost_card.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/article_3_menu_engineering_stars_plowhorses.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/article_4_menu_engineering_with_ai.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/article_5_how_ai_can_help_chefs.html 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 https://foodtech.guru/blog/food-cost-formula-explained.html2026-06-10 https://foodtech.guru/blog/how-to-calculate-food-cost.html2026-06-10 https://foodtech.guru/business-plans/food-truck-business-plan-example/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/business-plans/food-truck-business-plan-example/images/business-plans_food-truck-business-plan-example-tutorial-video.webp Food Truck Business Plan Example: A Taco Truck With Real Numbers A taco truck's full business plan, generated by the FoodTechGuru iPhone app from its own costed menu: startup costs, monthly P&L, break-even, 12-month cash flow and payback, in a live Google Sheet. Real app screens; the AI wait is sped up. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UsQqJSIotDg https://foodtech.guru/cake-costing-app/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/cake-costing-app/images/cake-costing-app-tutorial-video.webp Cake Costing App: What One Slice Really Costs An 8-inch vanilla cake, costed line by line in the free cake pricing calculator: ingredients, your time, the box and overhead, then a price per cake and per slice at your margin. Then the FoodTechGuru iPhone app, which builds the cost card from a recipe photo, text or link, with ingredient prices for your country and a Google Sheet. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0rhq8yCfxHY https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cake-pricing-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cake-pricing-calculator/images/calculators_cake-pricing-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Cake Pricing Calculator: Price a Cake With Your Time Included (Free) Price a cake the way bakers should: ingredients from the packs you buy, your baking and decorating hours at your hourly rate, the box and board, and a share of overhead, then a profit margin. Example: an 8-inch two-layer vanilla cake costs $91.54 with 3.5 hours of work at $20 an hour, so a 30% margin gives $130.77, about $8.17 a slice. Charging $65 loses $26.54, and your time earns about $12.42 an hour. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1E_JNe2Uj00 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/catering-pricing-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/catering-pricing-calculator/images/calculators_catering-pricing-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Catering Pricing Calculator: Price per Head and the Quote (Free) Price a catering job per head: the menu's cost per portion times portions per guest, overage, disposables, your crew's hours, rentals and travel, then a profit margin and an optional service charge. Example: a taco bar for 80 guests at $6.84 of food per guest costs $1,197.14 to run, so a 30% margin gives a $1,710.20 quote, $21.38 a head. https://www.youtube.com/embed/C6lV_3rBXT8 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cookie-pricing-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cookie-pricing-calculator/images/calculators_cookie-pricing-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Cookie Pricing Calculator: Price per Dozen and per Cookie (Free) Price cookies (or cupcakes) per dozen and per piece: the batch ingredients from the packs you buy, your hours at your hourly rate, overhead, the box and bags, then a profit margin. Example: 24 chocolate chip cookies cost $20.79 a dozen to make with 1.5 hours of work at $18 an hour, so a 30% margin gives $29.70 a dozen, $2.47 a cookie. Selling at $18 a dozen loses $2.79 a dozen. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ej3q-StN9h8 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cost-per-serving-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/cost-per-serving-calculator/images/calculators_cost-per-serving-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Cost per Serving Calculator: Real Portions After Cooking (Free) Split a batch cost into servings the way your kitchen really yields: weight after cooking (or raw weight minus cooking loss), waste, and portion size. The example is a real batch of carne asada: $10.54, 832 g after cooking, 208 g portions, so 4 servings at $2.64. Lose 5% to waste and it's 3.8 servings at $2.77. https://www.youtube.com/embed/nCCTNHfKs6k https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-cost-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-cost-calculator/images/calculators_food-cost-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Food Cost Calculator: Plate Cost and Food Cost % in a Minute (Free) Cost one dish from its ingredient prices, see its food cost % at your menu price and the price that hits your target, then check the whole menu weighted by what you sell. The example is a real taco truck menu: carne asada tacos at $2.63 a plate and $8.00 on the menu (32.9%), and a 10-dish menu at 28.5%. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Im5BCzjDqHA https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-cost-percentage-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-cost-percentage-calculator/images/calculators_food-cost-percentage-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Food Cost Percentage Calculator: Formula, Example and What's Healthy The food cost percentage formula is plate cost ÷ menu price × 100. Worked example: carne asada tacos cost $2.63 and sell for $8.00, so 32.9%. Flip it to get the price for a 30% target ($8.77), or work out a whole month with the inventory method: opening stock + purchases − closing stock, ÷ food sales. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Sic5KwsIaI https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-truck-startup-cost-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/food-truck-startup-cost-calculator/images/calculators_food-truck-startup-cost-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Food Truck Startup Costs: A Real Taco Truck, Line by Line A real example: the startup budget of a US taco truck, from a business plan made in the FoodTechGuru app. The truck, the kitchen, the fit-out, a generator and the till, plus ten percent for surprises, come to $74,415. Then the line most budgets miss: a cash buffer for the slow first months, which takes the cash to raise to $114,564. https://www.youtube.com/embed/vsAJztN-tyo https://foodtech.guru/calculators/menu-price-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/menu-price-calculator/images/calculators_menu-price-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Menu Price Calculator: Price Every Dish From Its Food Cost (Free) Price every dish from what it costs to make: divide the food cost by your target food cost %, or use a markup, and round up to a menu-friendly price. The example is a real taco truck menu: carne asada tacos cost $2.63, so a 30% target gives $8.77, rounded to $8.99. At today's $8.00 they run 32.9%. https://www.youtube.com/embed/y5pqVtZUBrQ https://foodtech.guru/calculators/pour-cost-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/pour-cost-calculator/images/calculators_pour-cost-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Pour Cost Calculator: What a Drink Really Costs You (Free) Bottle size and price, the pour in ounces or milliliters, plus mixers and garnish: get the cost per drink, the pour cost %, and the price for your target. Example: a margarita at example US prices costs $3.15; at $12 that's a 26.2% pour cost, and a 20% target means $15.73. A 1.5 oz pour instead of 2 oz brings it to 21.6%. https://www.youtube.com/embed/OM91jkNXKOM https://foodtech.guru/calculators/recipe-cost-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/recipe-cost-calculator/images/calculators_recipe-cost-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Recipe Cost Calculator: Cost a Recipe in 60 Seconds (Free) Cost a recipe step by step with a real example, carne asada tacos from a food truck: add each ingredient with the pack you buy, its price and the amount the recipe uses, set the yield after trimming and the servings, and get the cost per serving, the food cost % at your menu price and a suggested price from a target food cost. https://www.youtube.com/embed/wA1e90fuT1Y https://foodtech.guru/calculators/restaurant-break-even-calculator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/calculators/restaurant-break-even-calculator/images/calculators_restaurant-break-even-calculator-tutorial-video.webp Restaurant Break-Even Calculator: How Many Covers a Day? Fixed costs ÷ contribution margin = break-even sales. Divide by your average check for covers, then by trading days for a daily target. Worked through on a real taco-truck plan made in the FoodTechGuru app: $19,420 a month, about 131 portions a trading day. https://www.youtube.com/embed/eoOCQohWS0U https://foodtech.guru/features/supplier-price-comparison/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/features/supplier-price-comparison/images/features_supplier-price-comparison-tutorial-video.webp Restaurant Vendor Price Comparison: Compare Suppliers Per Pound Two suppliers quote different packs (4/10 LB vs 1/40 LB, 10/36 CT vs 12/30 CT). The free calculator on the page turns each pack and case price into a price per pound, kilo or piece, marks the cheaper supplier for every item and shows what splitting the order saves each week. In the example, splitting saves $14.60 a week (about $759 a year) before delivery minimums and fees. Supplier A's prices come from a sample distributor price list; Supplier B is a made-up quote to show the maths. https://www.youtube.com/embed/uNjkoSaQ4ww https://foodtech.guru/features/supplier-price-list-to-recipe-costing/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/features/supplier-price-list-to-recipe-costing/images/features_supplier-price-list-to-recipe-costing-tutorial-video.webp Recipe Costing With Supplier Prices: Price List to Cost Card A taco truck uploads its distributor's price list (an Excel file). The AI matches every line to the truck's ingredients: 79 of 79 added, one can size to fix. The case prices become prices per kilo (beef chuck at $10.05 a pound shows as $22.16 a kilo), and the cost cards made afterwards use them: onions at $1.50 a kilo come straight from a 50 lb bag at $33.95. https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3jbQ__JFlI https://foodtech.guru/recipe-costing-software/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/recipe-costing-software/images/recipe-costing-software-tutorial-video.webp Recipe Costing Software: Recipe to Cost Card and Google Sheet A Mexican food truck menu goes from a typed recipe list to cost cards, Google Sheets, a menu engineering sheet and a business plan, in one run of the FoodTechGuru iPhone app. https://www.youtube.com/embed/F320HOp3ii0 https://foodtech.guru/restaurant-business-plan-generator/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/restaurant-business-plan-generator/images/restaurant-business-plan-generator-tutorial-video.webp Restaurant Business Plan Generator: Build a Plan in 6 Steps (App) How to build a restaurant business plan in the FoodTechGuru iPhone app: pick a format, add the crew, choose a costed menu and set prices, enter the monthly costs and the equipment, check break-even, then generate a live Google Sheet with P&L, break-even, 12-month cash flow, menu engineering, cost cards, a purchase list and startup costs. Real app screens; the generation wait is sped up. https://www.youtube.com/embed/NGDGfkTXeyo https://foodtech.guru/restaurant-business-plan-template/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/restaurant-business-plan-template/images/restaurant-business-plan-template-tutorial-video.webp Restaurant Business Plan Example: A Real Plan, Every Number A walk through a finished restaurant business plan, generated by the FoodTechGuru iPhone app as a live Google Sheet: startup costs, the monthly P&L, break-even, the health check, a 12-month cash flow and payback. Then how to make your own plan in the app. Real sheet tabs and app screens; the generation wait is sped up. https://www.youtube.com/embed/8siO7cKXXCQ https://foodtech.guru/templates/food-cost-template/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/templates/food-cost-template/images/templates_food-cost-template-tutorial-video.webp Food Cost Template: Track Your Real Food Cost Every Week (Free) Track your actual food cost % week by week: opening inventory + purchases − closing inventory = food used, divided by food sales, against your target. The sheet shows the variance in points and in dollars, 52 weeks plus a monthly tab. Example: four weeks at a food truck, one week at 33.5% ($215 over a 30% target), 29.9% to date. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xqayKvNODaI https://foodtech.guru/templates/menu-costing-template/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/templates/menu-costing-template/images/templates_menu-costing-template-tutorial-video.webp Menu Costing Template: Cost Every Dish in One Sheet (Free) Cost a whole menu in one sheet: cost per serving, menu price, food cost % and profit per plate for every dish, the price at your target food cost, and the menu's totals and average. It opens with a real 10-dish taco truck menu costed in the FoodTechGuru app: average food cost 27.55%, three dishes over a 30% target. https://www.youtube.com/embed/UZchjpCTuCw https://foodtech.guru/templates/menu-engineering-spreadsheet/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/templates/menu-engineering-spreadsheet/images/templates_menu-engineering-spreadsheet-tutorial-video.webp Menu Engineering Worksheet: Grade Every Dish Star to Dog (Free) A real nine-dish food truck menu, graded: two Stars, three Plowhorses, one Puzzle, three Dogs. How the profit and popularity lines work, and what to do with each grade. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5m-OwyRmBls https://foodtech.guru/templates/recipe-costing-template/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/templates/recipe-costing-template/images/templates_recipe-costing-template-tutorial-video.webp Recipe Costing Template: Free Google Sheet Cost Card (Step by Step) Copy the template, type your ingredient weights, prep and cooking loss and price per kg, and read the cost per serving. The example is churros with dulce de leche. https://www.youtube.com/embed/IC5IZIUxADg https://foodtech.guru/templates/restaurant-order-guide-template/ 2026-10-29 https://foodtech.guru/templates/restaurant-order-guide-template/images/templates_restaurant-order-guide-template-tutorial-video.webp Restaurant Order Guide Template: Free Excel With Par and Cases List what you buy once, set a par for each item, count the shelf, and the sheet works out the cases to order: par minus on hand, rounded up to whole cases. It totals each supplier and builds a purchase order for the one you pick. The example is a taco truck's weekly order from two suppliers (sample distributor case prices): $494.97 for the main distributor and $325.65 for produce. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4pXNWQl2TCc https://foodtech.guru/calculators/ 2026-11-02 https://foodtech.guru/templates/ 2026-11-02 https://foodtech.guru/business-plans/ 2026-11-02 https://foodtech.guru/features/ 2026-11-02