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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.

Korean Fried Chicken Sliders

Method

Raw ingredients for Korean Fried Chicken Sliders

Step 1:

If using chicken thighs cut them in half, flatten the chicken pieces by placing them between cling film and use a rolling pin to make them an even thickness.

Image of raw chicken in a bowl

Step 2:

Dust the chicken with White Wings Plain Flour and give them a shake to remove any excess flour. Then, add them to the egg and milk wash and coat them with the breadcrumbs. Pop them on a lined tray and place them in the fridge to allow the crumb coating to set.

Image is of the chef coating the chicken with breadcrumbs

Step 3:

Heat grill with Simply Sunflower Oil and start frying the chicken on a medium heat, a couple of minutes on each side. Be careful not to overcrowd the plate. Set the fried chicken on a lined tray and finish them off in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees celsius.

Image is of the crumbed chicken being fried

Step 4:

To make the dressing, mix the Praise Whole Egg Mayonnaise, kim chi juice and Gochu Jang, which is a Korean paste.

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Making of the Korean mayo using the Praise Mayonnaise

Step 5:

Slice the QBA Milk Bun Sliders in half and gently toast each side on the grill.

Photo shows the QBA Milk Bun Sliders being toasted

Step 6:

To assemble, spread the Korean flavoured dressing across the top and bottom bun, follow with a washed lettuce leaf, the fried crumbed chicken and finish it off with kim chai.

The image shows the chef assembling the slider

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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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