The Recommended Minimum Cost Calculator
This free menu dish cost calculator is the perfect starting point for any kitchen. By factoring in your raw ingredient costs and waste, it provides the absolute minimum price you must charge to cover your overhead and maintain a healthy food cost percentage. Don't guess your margins—calculate them with precision.
Dish Cost Calculator
Raw Food Cost: £0.00
Recommended Menu Price: £0.00
Assumes 29% Food Cost Ratio (UK Standard)
The Gold Standard in Competitive Benchmarking: Piemetrics Pro
Piemetrics takes your menu prices and benchmarks them against live, local competitor data. It is the most robust way to price a menu in the modern restaurant industry.
Dish-by-Dish Comparison: See exactly how your Ribeye or Ramen stacks up against every restaurant in a 5-mile radius.
Are You Underpriced? Identify items where your price is significantly lower than the neighborhood average, allowing for instant margin growth.
Are You Overpriced? Find out where you're losing customers to the competition before your covers start to drop.
Hyper-Local Benchmarking: We don't just give you "national averages." We give you the street-level data that actually matters to your business.
Dine-In vs. Delivery Menu Analysis: Maximise your margins across every channel. Third-party delivery apps eat into your profits with 20-30% commissions. Piemetrics Pro lets you track competitor pricing across both dine-in menus and delivery platforms (UberEats, DoorDash, Just Eat, Deliveroo). See exactly how your competitors mark up their delivery menus so you can confidently implement a dual-pricing strategy, protect your margins from platform fees, and never lose money on a takeout order again.