Free tool

Turn a supplier price jump into a margin story you can see.

The example is already loaded. Change the numbers to match your own dish and watch the bleed, food cost, and required menu move update instantly.

Margin leak visible
Prefilled with a realistic example
Every assumption is editable

Live example

Dish

Chicken breast

8 oz portion

Lost per week

$129.75

300 dishes / week

Recommended price

$19.00

30.0% target food cost

Scenario builder

Edit the numbers

Start from the loaded example, then plug in your own invoice jump, portion, and menu price.

If you do nothing

This dish starts leaking margin right away.

At a menu price of $17.50, food cost shifts from 30.1% to 32.6%.

Lost per week

$129.75

Lost per month

$561.82

Lost per year

$6,747.00

Visual comparison

Before vs after

live math

Ingredient cost per dish

Old$1.12
New$1.55

Menu price

Current$17.50
Recommended$19.00

Old plate cost

$5.27

Includes $4.15 in non-ingredient cost

New plate cost

$5.70

Higher after the supplier move

Extra cost per dish

$0.43

Pure margin loss if nothing changes

Menu lift needed

$1.50

Suggested target price: $19.00

What to do next

The math points to $19.00.

That gets the dish back to a 30.0% target food cost. If you do not want to move price that far, the difference has to come from portion, vendor, or mix changes.

Why this page works better now

Restaurants usually feel supplier increases before they can quantify them. This layout makes the pain, the comparison, and the action step obvious in one glance.