Free Restaurant Templates
Free Google Sheets and Excel templates for chefs, food trucks and restaurant owners, each with a real example already filled in. Copy one, type your own numbers, and the formulas do the rest.
Costing and menu
Recipe Costing Template
A recipe cost card: weights, prep and cooking loss, unit cost and cost per serving, plus a nutrition tab.
Menu Engineering Worksheet
Menu mix, unit and dish profit, and a Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle or Dog grade for up to 20 dishes.
Menu Costing Template
Cost per serving, price, food cost % and profit per plate for every dish, with menu totals and averages.
Food Cost Template
Your actual food cost % week by week: inventory, purchases and sales, against your target.
Restaurant Order Guide Template
Par, on hand and the cases to order per supplier, with totals and a purchase order tab. Free Excel.
Planning a food business
Restaurant Business Plan Example
A real generated plan, every tab filled in: startup costs, P&L, break-even and cash flow. Plus 2 free sheets.
Free Calculators
No spreadsheet needed: cost a recipe in your browser, in pounds or grams.
Supplier Price Tools
Compare vendors per pound or kilo, cost recipes with your supplier's price list, and plan orders.
Rather not type it all?
FoodTechGuru for iPhone builds the cost card from a photo, link or voice note of your recipe, with ingredient prices for your country, and the menu engineering sheet from your costed dishes on a Pro or Guru plan. Free download; new accounts get 15 free credits, and one recipe uses one credit. Android is coming.
