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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.

Coriander and Chilli Infused Chicken Burger with Lime Mayonnaise

Method

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Step 1

To marinade the chicken mince, add the crushed garlic, ginger and chopped coriander leaves, and then massage the ingredients together. Clean out the capsicum and finely dice it, along with the spring onions and chilli. Add the vegetables to the mince and season with salt and pepper. Mix it all together.

Pouring ingredients in bowl

Chopping of spices

Adding spices to the raw chicken mince

Step 2

With a large scoop, form five mince balls. Then, gently squash them down with a spatula to create meat patties. Place them in the fridge for 15 minutes to set.

Making the mince into patties

Step 3

To create the lime mayonnaise, squeeze the lime juice into a bowl, then add the mayonnaise. For an extra punch of flavour, also add a tablespoon of lime zest and a pinch of salt and pepper. Whisk the ingredients together.

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Combining mayonnaise and line

Step 4

On a medium heat, fry the chicken patties for four minutes on each side. Once they have cooked through, place them on a paper towel to absorb the oil. While the patties cook, cut the Turkish bread into three and slice down the middle. Spread butter on the inside layer and place in a 150 degrees oven until they are golden brown.

Frying the chicken patties

Slicing of bread

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Step 5

Place the chicken patty on the bottom side of the bread loaf. Then, with a tablespoon, pour a thick layer of the lime mayonnaise and lettuce mixed leaf. Close the burger with the top of the loaf and dish alongside a serving of hot chips.

Placing together the burger

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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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