£130 of binned food a week is £6,760 in cash, £25,350 at menu prices
Wastage Cost Calculator
Binned food priced both ways: what it cost to buy, which is the real loss, and what it would have sold for, which is the number that motivates the kitchen.
Wastage Cost Calculator
Binned food priced both ways: what it cost to buy, and what it would have sold for. One of those is the real loss.
Which number is the loss
The bought cost is the cash that actually left: on the demo, £130 a week is £6,760 a year, gone whether the dining room was full or empty.
The menu value is the ceiling, not the loss: binned food would only have earned its menu price if every plate would have sold. Quote it to the kitchen for motivation, book the cost to the accounts for truth.
Waste divides into prep, spoilage, plate and comps, and each has a different fix. The workbook logs all four, because a single waste number hides which lever to pull.
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A four-category waste log in Excel, the percentage of purchases, and both prices on every line.
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