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Know your true food cost. Price every dish with confidence.
The VaultLab Restaurant Food Cost & Menu Engineering Pro is a connected Excel toolkit for small restaurants, cafés, bistros, catering teams and takeaway businesses. Turn ingredient purchase packs into yield-adjusted recipe costs, compare contribution across dine-in, takeaway and delivery, and make better-informed menu decisions.
What's inside
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10 connected Excel worksheets with a dashboard, quick-start guidance and a fully separate fictional worked example.
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200 ingredient slots with pack cost, unit, usable yield percentage, supplier and editable ingredient cost per usable kg/L/unit.
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400 recipe ingredient lines and costing for up to 80 menu items with servings per batch, per-portion food cost and target food-cost percentage.
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300 sales entries across dine-in, takeaway and delivery with discounts, VAT handling, packaging and channel commissions.
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Channel Scenarios compare estimated unit contribution, contribution margin and required price for a configurable margin target.
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Menu Engineering classifies items as Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs from actual entered sales, not predictions.
- Warnings for incomplete ingredient, recipe, menu and sales inputs.
Digital files delivered
One ZIP with the editable XLSX workbook, a 3-page quick-start PDF, a README and a single-business internal-use license. English edition. No physical product is shipped. No macros, POS integrations or subscription required; requires compatible spreadsheet software.
Important: All default channel rates and sample data are illustrative. Verify applicable VAT, food-safety, pricing, labor, accounting and platform rules before operating the model. Contributions reflect stated variable costs, not final net business profit. No revenue or performance outcomes are guaranteed.
