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Recipe Costing Toolkit
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$4.82
42 / 700 / tabular
H1
Beef brisket plate
30 / 600
H2
Dinner menu
22 / 600
H3
Sub-recipe: Beef stock
18 / 600
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Tuesday prep — Brisket plate × 80 covers. Build the stock first; brisket goes in at 6:30am.
17 / serif
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When butter moved from $3.42 to $3.92 per lb, the Tuesday brunch pancake plate crossed its 28% drift threshold.
14 / 400
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ing_butter_eu_AAlfa · pack 1lb @ $3.92 · 2026-04-08
13 / mono
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Drift component
Brisket sandwich
+3.2 pts drift
Target 28%
Current 31.2%
Plate cost $4.84
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SYG Foods · Apr 8 · 14 line items parsed. Review before prices update.
3 plates drifted above 30% food cost
Brisket sandwich, pancakes, French toast — driven by butter and beef increases.
Cycle detected — saving aborted
"Beef stock" can't include itself as a sub-recipe.
14 plate costs updated · 3 crossed drift threshold
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Plate cost
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Food cost
Target
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Brisket sandwich
$4.84
$15.50
31.2%
28%
Drifting
House pancakes
$1.92
$11.00
17.5%
22%
On target
Caesar salad
$3.12
$13.00
24.0%
26%
On target
Truffle fries
$2.81
$8.00
35.1%
28%
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