Free menu price calculator
Enter a dish's cost and the food-cost percentage you're targeting to get a suggested menu price and its margin. Free and instant, right in your browser.
Price a dish
Enter the dish cost and your target food-cost percentage.
Always sanity-check against what the market will bear.
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Understanding the numbers
How pricing from food cost works
To price from a target food cost, divide the dish's ingredient cost by your target percentage. A dish costing 4.00 with a 30% target prices around 13.30 (4.00 ÷ 0.30). It's a fast, disciplined starting point.
Then sanity-check it
A formula gives you a floor, not a final answer. Check the suggested price against what the market and your guests will bear, and use menu engineering to balance high- and low-margin items across the whole menu.
Questions, answered
It divides your dish cost by your target food-cost percentage. A 4.00 dish at a 30% target suggests about 13.30.
No. Aim for a healthy blended average across the menu; some dishes run higher and some lower.
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Stop calculating by hand
Menulisa tracks these numbers automatically from your real sales, labor, and inventory — always current.