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You’ve priced a dish on a guess before. You picked a number that felt about right, and only found out later, once GST and the real cost of every ingredient were factored in, that the margin barely existed. A menu price built on instinct is hard to walk back once customers are used to paying it. Our recipe calculator works out your true food cost, your GST-inclusive cost, and your profit margin before the dish goes anywhere near a menu.

Fish and Chips with Homemade Tartare Sauce Recipe

Method

Image of the raw ingredients for the fish and chips recipe

Step 1

To make the homemade tartare sauce, separate the yolk from the eggs. Place the yolks into a blender and blend on a slow speed. During blending, slowly drizzle in the Crisco Canola Oil and continue on a low speed until it thickens. Add the capers and pickles to the sauce and blend together, then add the squeezed lemon juice. The lemon adds a nice zing of flavour to the sauce.

Chef cracking eggs into a bowl

Chef dropping in capers into the blender

Chef adding pickles to the mayonnaise

Step 2

Place the thawed out chips into a deep fryer, which is filled with Crisco Canola Oil. Fry them for five minutes, then drain. To add some flavour, season with salt and pepper.

Chef frying chips in deep fryer

Step 3

Slice the fish into thick long slices to mimic the look of a fish finger. In a bowl, whisk together the White Wings Premium Batter Mix and warm water, then evenly coat the fish with the batter.

An image of the chef slicing the fish and covering it in batter

Step 4

Gently place the fish pieces into the deep fryer. Ensure the fish floats above the oil and doesn’t stick to the edges of the fryer. Cook until they form a crunchy, golden crust.

Chef deep frying the battered fish

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Step 5

For serving, place a mountain of chips on the plate, then put the fish on-top. Add a side of homemade tartare sauce and then it is ready for serving.

Chef serving the fish and chips

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WHAT IS A RECIPE CALCULATOR?

A recipe calculator works out what a dish costs to make and what it needs to sell for to turn a profit. Some tools under that name are really a recipe converter, turning ounces and teaspoons into metric, or a recipe multiplier that scales quantities up or down, or a nutrition calculator returning the energy and carbohydrate count per serve. Ours is a recipe cost calculator. Enter your ingredient costs and servings, and you get a total cost, a cost per serve, and the margin behind your selling price.

HOW TO USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Enter your recipe name, method and serving size, and the number of servings the recipe makes.
Select “+ Add Ingredient” to build your ingredient list, then enter the quantity purchased and cost of goods for each item.
Enter the quantity your recipe actually uses for each ingredient, in grams, millilitres or each.
Select Calculate to see your total cost across the batch, plus the same figure with GST added and your cost per serve. This is where the calculator divides your total batch cost by your number of servings, converting it into a cost per portion.
Enter a Selling Price per serve to see your Food Gross Profit, Food Markup percentage and Total Generated Profit.

WHY FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES USE OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR

Cafes and quick service kitchens change their menus often, and costing a new dish properly before it launches matters more than costing it quickly. Catering and events businesses price the same recipe at different scales throughout the year, a function for ten one week and an event for two hundred the next. Enter the servings for each job, and the calculator handles that recipe scaling without you reworking your ingredient list from scratch.

Bakeries producing large batches need to know the per-unit cost still holds as bakery ingredient prices shift. Contract caterers working to a fixed per-meal budget, such as aged care or education providers, can check a recipe against that budget before it goes into a wider meal planner or seasonal menu.

Across all of these, the value is the same. You get a cost per serve and a margin you can trust, built from your actual supplier pricing rather than an estimate.

Browse our recipes for menu inspiration, then cost them here before you commit to a price.

WHAT MAKES OUR RECIPE CALCULATOR DIFFERENT

Most recipe cost calculators are standalone software with no link to where you actually buy. Ours sits within Goodman Fielder Food Service, a foodservice supplier. Once you’ve priced a recipe and know your numbers, you’re already talking to the team that supplies the ingredients themselves. If a margin looks tighter than expected, that’s a conversation about ingredient pricing you can have straight away.

If you want to work through pricing on a specific dish or menu, our team can help. Get in touch today.

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