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How do I calculate 21.5% food cost on a dinner at $30?

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Use this formula: 30 x 21.5 / 100 = $6.45.

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How do I calculate indirect costs for baking three dozen cookies?

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Make a list of all your ingredients. Always count the number of cookies said recipes make. When you have done this, go online or consult fliers and just calculate the cost of all you will need.

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Cost the seafood recipes?

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Follow the same process of getting the ingredients and quantities list, calculating the cost of each ingredient, and summing them together.

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How do I find the cost with just a menu price?

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The ingredient list, quantities, and purchase prices are required to calculate the recipe cost.

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What is the formula for costing out recipes

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Get the ingredients and quantities list, calculate the cost of each entire or partial ingredient, and add these together to get the total cost.

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In a restaurant where all food is served in takeout, how do you factor in the cost of paper to your menu price? Do I include that cost in as if it's food?

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The cost of paper will be a different business expense, rather than a recipe cost or food expense.

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How much profit do you add to your costing?

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It will depend on how much you want to make/need to pay workers and other bills. If you add too much, then not a lot of people will buy your product. Just remember to ask someone else, a friend or business partner to calculate the total cost to make sure your calculations are right.

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