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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.

Southern Spiced Chicken Burger, Slaw & Chipotle Mayo

Method

Prep time: 25 minutes.

Step One

To prep the chicken spices, mix the flour, Texas spice mix, paprika and salt together in a medium size bowl.

Step Two

In a second bowl whisk the egg whites and water together.

Step Three

To crumb the chicken, lightly flour the chicken in the spiced flour mix then set aside in the egg white mix.

Step Four

With the leftover flour and spice mix, drizzle about 4 tbsp of egg white mix into the flour spice mix and stir with your clean hands, rubbing to form clumps, gathering the clumps on your fingers then allowing them to drop back into the mix to create a lumpy flouring mix.

Step Five

Finish crumbing the chicken breasts and set aside.

Step Six

Shallow fry the chicken turning occasionally until chicken is cooked through, then place on a wire rack until needed.

Step Seven

Prep the chipotle mayonnaise by mixing together the Oli & Vine whole egg mayonnaise, chipotle, sweet paprika and lime juice. Set aside.

Step Eight

Toast the milk buns and make the slaw by thinly slicing the red and white cabbage and combining them together.

Step Nine

To assemble the burger, butter the bottom of the bun with the Chipotle mayo then top with the slaw, then add a couple of pickles, top with chicken then a generous amount of Oli & Vine Aioli.

Step Ten

Serve with home-made hand cut chips and extra Oli & Vine Aioli.

Texas Spice Mix

Step One

In a mortar and pestle or spice grinder, add all of the ingredients and bash or grind until all spices are roughly the size of freshly ground pepper.

Step Two

Store in an airtight dry container up to a couple of months.

Step Three

Use in accordance with other recipes, works very well with low and slow cooked recipes and excellent on any open barbecued proteins. i.e Beef, Pork, Chicken, Lamb and even Fish.

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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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