recipe-coster/coster.json

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{
"artifact": "Recipe Coster — kitchen operations tool",
"maker": "Rony Thomas",
"city": "La Grange, Kentucky",
"domain": "casual-dining kitchen operations",
"description": "A genuine recipe-costing calculator: cost per usable gram after yield loss, true cost per portion, sell price at a target food-cost %, and margin. The math used on a real dinner line.",
"formula": {
"costPerUsableGram": "buyPrice / (boughtGrams * yieldPct/100)",
"costPerPortion": "costPerUsableGram * portionGrams",
"plateIngredientCost": "sum(costPerPortion) over ingredients",
"totalCostPerPortion": "plateIngredientCost + packagingPerPortion + laborPerPortion",
"sellPrice": "totalCostPerPortion / (targetFoodCostPct/100)",
"foodCostSharePct": "plateIngredientCost / totalCostPerPortion * 100"
},
"houseRules": {
"yield": "Cost on cooked/usable yield, never bought weight. Shrink (bones, trim, peel, wilt) is real money in the plate.",
"garnish": "Garnish and sauce sides are money; itemize them as their own line.",
"benchmark": "Re-cost every plate quarterly; sort by true food-cost %; cut the loser nobody orders.",
"priceToGuest": "A loss-leader is deliberate, not accidental. Know which plates are workhorses.",
"seasonings": "Salt, spice, chef's taste = labor and seasonings; track them or they buy you a fryer."
},
"industryBenchmarkFoodCostPct": "28-34 for a casual dining house",
"defaultWorkedResult": {
"recipe": "Smoked collard pork plate",
"portions": 4,
"ingredientSubtotalPerPortion": 4.83,
"packagingPerPortion": 0.35,
"laborPerPortion": 1.10,
"totalCostPerPortion": 6.28,
"sellPriceAt30pctFoodCost": 20.93
}
}