Food Costing Template for Restaurants & Cafés

🍴 Why Food Costing Matters

• Ingredient prices change every week
• Small increases can wipe out your margins
• Monitoring food costs is the only way to stay profitable

📊 The Problem with Excel

• Spreadsheets get messy and hard to maintain
• Updating ingredient prices across recipes takes forever
• Broken formulas and errors create confusion instead of clarity

💸 Why Pay $50–200 a Month for Software?

• Most tools are built for big chains, not independents
• Monthly subscriptions eat into your already thin margins
• Packed with features you don’t need, complicated to set up

✅ A Better Way with Airtable

• Airtable is free unless you use advanced features
• This template gets you up and running in minutes
• Items, ingredients, and suppliers are neatly organized
• Update one ingredient price and all your recipes recalc automatically
• Run quick scenarios to see what to charge on the fly

👉 Pay once, use for life, and finally take control of your food costs.

🌐 Learn More

Want to see more about how the Food Costing Template works?
Visit our website: foodcosting.app