Glossary
Plate Cost
The cost of ingredients in a single plate of a dish.
Definition
Plate cost is the recipe-implied cost of ingredients for one plate of a specific dish. It's the foundation of menu pricing and the only honest baseline for plate-cost leak analysis (theoretical vs actual food cost gap).
Example
Worked example
Butter Chicken plate cost: chicken 200g (₹50) + butter 30g (₹15) + cream 30ml (₹9) + spices/onion (₹6) = ₹80 plate cost.
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operationsmenu-engineering
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