Costs by Category
See your recipe costs broken down by category — ingredients, packaging, labour, and more.
Every ingredient in Recipe Cost Calculator belongs to a category — proteins, produce, dairy, packaging, labour, whatever makes sense for your business. When you look at a recipe, you can see costs broken down by these categories, both as a list and as a chart.
This makes it easy to see where your money is going. If your protein costs are 45% of total recipe cost and your target is 35%, that's immediately visible. You can make informed decisions about substitutions, portion sizes, or pricing without digging into each ingredient individually.
Category cost breakdowns are available on individual recipes and across your recipe list. You can compare category distributions across recipes to spot outliers or identify where there's room to optimize.
Why this matters
See where the money goes.
Category breakdowns turn a wall of ingredient costs into something actionable. You can quickly see if your packaging costs are creeping up, if a recipe is protein-heavy relative to its price point, or where you have the most room to reduce costs.