Recipes & Food Cost Control: How to Cut Restaurant Costs by 30% with Franchise Tech

Do you know your exact food cost for each menu item? Most Romanian HoReCa businesses guess. With Franchise Tech's Recipe & Food Cost module, you get precise, live food cost data for every dish, drink, and combo — automatically updated every time supplier prices change.

1. Recipe Creation & Management

Build your complete recipe database with precision. Each recipe includes:

• Ingredients with exact quantities (grams, ml, pieces, portions)
• Preparation steps with photos and videos for training
• Yield factor — account for cooking losses (evaporation, bones, peels)
• Portion size and number of servings per batch
• Allergen tracking — automatically flag dishes with common allergens
• Nutritional values — calories, protein, carbs, fat per portion

2. Live Food Cost Calculation

The system calculates food cost in real time, using your actual supplier prices. When a supplier invoice is processed, all recipe costs update automatically — no manual recalculation needed.

3. Food Cost Alerts & Margin Tracking

Set target food cost percentages for each dish and category. When a supplier price increase pushes a dish above your target margin, you get an immediate alert with recommendations:

4. Theoretical vs Actual Cost Analysis

The most powerful feature: compare what your food cost should be (theoretical, based on recipes and sales) with what it actually was (based on purchases and physical inventory). The difference reveals:

• Staff portioning errors (too much, too little)
• Kitchen waste and spoilage
• Recipe deviations (using different ingredients)
• Theft or unregistered consumption
• Measurement inaccuracies in weighing

5. Menu Engineering Reports

The Menu Engineering matrix classifies every item on your menu into 4 categories: