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Recipes, ingredients and waste
Tell F&B how you buy your ingredients and what each item uses, and it tells you what every item costs to make, takes ingredients off your shelf as you sell, and shows you what is wasted.
Screenshots use a fictional business and figures.
Add an ingredient
Press Ingredients, then Add an ingredient.
Give it a Name, and choose how it is Measured in: grams, millilitres or pieces.
Say how you buy it: You buy it as a pack, bag or tray, and how much Each one holds, like 1000 g. Add the Price you pay for one and How many you have now, then press Save.
Give an item a recipe
Press Menu and recipes, then Add recipe on an item.
Under This recipe makes, say how many of the item one batch makes: a tray of 24 madeleines sold in boxes of 6 makes 4.
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Add each ingredient and how much the batch uses, in grams, millilitres or pieces. The cost to make one and what you keep show as you type. Press Save recipe.
A recipe for one tray, and what each box costs to make.
From then on, when you confirm an order’s payment, or sell the item at the counter, its ingredients come off your shelf. Orders from before your first recipe are left alone.
Record what you buy
On Ingredients, press Bought, say how many packs and the price for one, and press Add to stock. It goes on your balance sheet as stock, and its cost moves into your P&L as it is used.
Throw away, count, and read your waste
Burnt a tray? Press Throw away, say how much and why, and press Write it off.
Now and then, press Count what's left, weigh what is on your shelf, and press Save the count. Anything short is waste nobody wrote down.
Press Waste to see each month: used in orders, thrown away, missing at a count, and waste as a share of everything that left the shelf.
Questions
Why grams on screen but kilograms in Inventory?
Ingredients are kept in kilograms and litres behind the scenes so their cost keeps its cents, and shown to you in grams and millilitres. They are the same ingredients you see in Inventory.
Does an 8 inch cake use more than a 6 inch one?
Not yet: a recipe is per item, whatever the choice. If you sell sizes that use very different amounts, tell us through Feedback.