Menu Pricing Calculator
Dish + recipe + city → minimum viable price + recommended price using live Agmarknet mandi feed. The same data layer that powers Forkcast Supply Watch.
Add only the ingredients used in one plate. Onion, tomato, potato, rice, wheat and oil use live mandi prices when available.
These are spread across your expected plates/month so profit is closer to reality.
Includes raw ingredients, per-plate overhead and allocated fixed costs.
Biryani-only pricing in Visakhapatnam
Biryani-only cuisine runs a 30-38% food cost band when executed well. The most-missed cost line: basmati + chicken + ghee triple-locked.
For Visakhapatnam specifically: Coastal seafood demand; cyclone closures Sep-Nov.
Worked example: Veg Biryani comes out to a plate cost of ₹49 and a recommended price of ₹205 at a 30% food cost target. The minimum viable price is ₹175 — below this, you're losing money on every plate after kitchen labour.
Next: run the viability score for Biryani-only × Visakhapatnam, and check the opening cost for Visakhapatnam.
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