Recipe Ingredient Calculator for Restaurants, Cafés & Catering – Smart Excel File

My Story – And Perhaps Yours Too

I once pulled an all-nighter over a 450-meal order with 4 different dishes.
The client ordered:
120 chicken mushroom pastas, 100 mashed potato bowls with mushroom gravy, 130 grilled pork rice plates with side salad and 100 portions of creamy mushroom soup

At first, it looked manageable – until I realized:

• All 3 dishes (except the pork) used the same mushroom cream sauce, but in different quantities.
• The mashed potatoes needed mushroom gravy, which was made from the same sauce + stock + butter.
• The creamy soup? Same base – just thinned down and seasoned differently.
• And the pork dish? Its side salad shared ingredients with the pasta garnish (lettuce, cherry tomatoes, onions – all prepped differently).

I was lost in the sauce. Literally.
How many kilos of mushrooms? Cream? Butter? How big a batch of sauce should I make to cover everything – with no waste?
I scribbled messy notes, crossed things out, tried Excel…

3AM, I was still retyping the same ingredients in three places, hoping the numbers matched.

So after that order, I declared: Enough is enough!

I tried recipe apps, but:
• Paid $30/month for features I didn’t need.
• Couldn’t customize units (kg to lbs for international suppliers).
• Slow internet? Dead in the water. 

That’s why I spent 4 weeks building the Recipe Ingredient Calculator in Excel!

Since using this, my mind feels lighter than whipped cream.
(after countless tweaks, refinements, and hundreds of lines of hand-written VBA code. All so I can calculate ingredients, portions, and costs in seconds — no more guesswork, no more juggling 10 spreadsheets)

→ Enter recipes once → Auto-scale for 10, 100, or 1,000 servings.
→ Calculate all ingredients in 1 click. Just type your desired quantity and press enter.
→ Instantly see sauce batch sizes, shopping lists, and costs – even for 20+ dishes in one order.

Built for People Like You – Chefs, Caterers, Restaurant Owners:

🍳 When orders suddenly triple:
Type "200 burgers" → Get exact amounts: 30kg beef, 200 buns, 5kg lettuce. Close those 10 Excel tabs!

🍳 When you need to budget for a massive order:
Input quantities → See precise costs down to the last penny.

🍳 When ingredient prices spike:
Update prices once → All recipe costs and profit margins auto-adjust.

🍳 When your flan recipe calls for 8 eggs, but you only have 5 in the fridge:
Just type “5 eggs” → The template instantly recalculates the perfect ratio of milk, sugar, and more. Not a single gram wasted.

Recipe Ingredient Calculator – Essential Ingredient Quantity & Cost Calculator for Restaurants, Catering Services, and Commercial Kitchens! 

Take a quick look inside (video demo) →

Why This Template Is Your New Kitchen BFF: 

✅ No apps, no subscriptions: Pay once, own it forever. Works offline in Excel – no internet required.
✅ One-time purchase, unlimited use: For all your branches, all your concepts. It’s 100% yours.
✅ No more re-entering recipes: Save your time, save your sanity.
✅ Keep your secret recipes safe: Your formulas stay with you, not on someone else’s server.
✅ Control costs like a pro: Know your exact cost per dish or event and negotiate confidently with clients.
✅ Cross-check ingredient usage against sales – perfect for cafes and restaurants to prevent waste.

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What’s Inside – You’re Getting:

🔹 1 Automated Ingredient Calculator Spreadsheet – comes with a ready-made example + blank template to build your own.
🔹 1 Dish Costing Spreadsheet – track profit margins with both a working sample and a clean version to customize.
🔹 1 Step-by-Step Video Tutorial – watch how to use it in under 15 minutes, even if you hate Excel.

Let’s be real – $97 is less than what we spend on a dinner out, a pair of sneakers, or a day of part-time help.
But this? It pays for itself every time you skip one ingredient mistake.

👉 One-time price: $97 No fake discounts.  
I priced it for its real worth.

Buy it once → Use it forever → Save hours and hundreds.