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Use recipe costing and food-cost benchmarks

Costing tells you what a dish costs to make, so the price you charge is a decision rather than a guess.

Premium feature

Recipe costing requires a Premium plan. It is included during your 14-day free trial.

Add costs to a dish​

  1. Open Dishes and open the dish you want to cost.
  2. Find the recipe-costing section in the dish editor.
  3. For each ingredient, enter the quantity the recipe uses, the unit you buy it in, and what you pay for that unit.
  4. Add packaging, labor minutes, and any overhead you want carried.
  5. Save. Stovefront works out the estimated cost per portion and shows it against your selling price.

Costing understands that you buy in one unit and cook in another — a 5 lb bag of flour, 200 g in the recipe — and it accounts for yield, so trimming and waste are not silently ignored.

Benchmarks​

Benchmarks is a separate workspace of starter cost estimates and pricing defaults. It does not appear in your navigation until you switch it on:

  1. Open Operations → Workspace tools.
  2. Turn on the Benchmarks tool.
  3. Benchmarks now appears in the left navigation.

Storage works the same way — both are Premium, and both are off by default so the navigation stays short for kitchens that do not want them.

Treat these as estimates​

They are planning numbers, not accounting. Update ingredient costs when your supplier prices move, and check the final price still covers packaging, fulfillment, and whatever your payment method costs you.

Create a dish · Set price, quantity, and availability · Choose a billing plan