Restaurants, cafes & bars

Free restaurant, cafe and bar pricing calculators

Pricing tools for food and drink businesses: plate and recipe cost, which menu items earn their place, pour cost, tip pool splits that stay compliant, labour by daypart, delivery app commissions, catering quotes and brewery batch margins.

Opening a cafe, food business or bar? Cost your menu with the recipe costing and pour cost calculators before you print it; a price set by a competitor's menu is set on their costs, not yours.

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  1. Menu Engineering Calculator

    Free menu engineering calculator for independent restaurants: enter each dish's plate food cost, menu price and units sold to classify it as a star, plowhorse, puzzle or dog, see…

    5 questions answered

  2. Pour Cost Calculator

    Free pour cost calculator for bars and restaurants: price a cocktail from your own bottle costs and pour sizes, see the liquor cost percentage against your target, and find out…

    5 questions answered

  3. Food Truck Event & Catering Margin Calculator

    Free calculator for independent food truck and trailer operators: find the real price for one private event, catering, or festival booking after commissary prep, travel, staff…

    4 questions answered

  4. Tip Pool Compliance Calculator

    Check a mandatory tip pool against federal FLSA rules: managers and supervisors are never eligible, and back-of-house staff are eligible only if you take no tip credit. See the…

    3 questions answered

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  • Tip Pool Compliance Calculator

    Check a mandatory tip pool against federal FLSA rules: managers and supervisors are never eligible, and back-of-house staff are eligible only if you take no tip credit. See the…

    3 questions answered

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