BOM & Recipe Costing
Recipe costing software for better food-cost and menu-profit control.
Tab2Kit helps cafes, restaurants and food shops connect menu items to ingredients, quantities, recipes and food-cost calculations. This gives owners better visibility into what each dish, drink or product really costs to make.
When ingredient prices change, wastage increases or menu prices stay too low, profit can disappear quietly. Tab2Kit helps make those cost signals easier to see.
Recipe costing dashboard
Menu item cost and margin
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What it does
What BOM & Recipe Costing does
BOM means Bill of Materials. In a food business, it means the ingredients, quantities and components required to make a menu item.
Tab2Kit helps connect each menu item to its recipe and ingredient requirements. This allows the business to calculate food cost, review ingredient usage and understand whether menu prices are still suitable.
Menu-item BOM
Recipe ingredient list
Ingredient quantity control
Unit of measure management
Food-cost calculation
Supplier cost connection
Wastage visibility
Menu-item analysis
Pricing decision support
Instead of guessing the cost of a dish, drink or prepared item, owners can use connected ingredient and supplier data to support better decisions.
Menu items connected to ingredients
Connect menu items to the ingredients behind them.
A menu item is more than a name and selling price. It may include multiple ingredients, preparation components, packaging and portion rules.
Tab2Kit helps build this connection clearly.
When every menu item connects to its ingredient structure, owners can better understand the real cost behind each sale.
Example BOM card
Menu item: Chicken Burger
Ingredient quantity and unit control
Control quantities, portions and units.
Recipe costing depends on accurate quantities. A small change in portion size, ingredient usage or unit cost can affect margin across hundreds or thousands of orders.
Tab2Kit helps connect ingredients and quantities to menu items so food cost can be calculated more clearly.
This supports more consistent costing across kitchen preparation, purchasing and reporting.
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Food cost calculation
Understand what each menu item costs to make.
A selling price only tells you revenue. Food cost tells you how much of that revenue is consumed by ingredients and preparation inputs.
Tab2Kit helps calculate and monitor menu-item cost using ingredient data, recipe quantities and supplier costs.
Which menu items are expensive to produce?
Which items have weak margins?
Which items are still profitable after supplier price changes?
Which items may need a price review?
Which ingredients are driving cost increases?
Which menu items are affected by wastage or expiry issues?
With better food-cost visibility, owners can make pricing and purchasing decisions with more confidence.
Supplier price changes and recipe cost
See how supplier price changes affect menu cost.
Ingredient prices can change quickly. If a supplier increases the price of meat, seafood, vegetables, dairy, coffee beans, flour or packaging, the cost of multiple menu items may change at the same time.
Tab2Kit helps connect supplier purchasing information with ingredient cost and recipe costing.
When supplier data connects to recipes, cost changes become easier to act on.
Which ingredients have increased in cost
Which menu items are affected
Whether supplier price comparison is needed
Whether menu prices should be reviewed
Whether purchasing decisions are reducing or increasing margin
Menu pricing decisions
Support better menu pricing decisions.
Menu pricing should not be based only on competitors, guesswork or old cost assumptions. It should also reflect ingredient cost, supplier price changes, channel fees, customer groups and margin goals.
Tab2Kit supports flexible pricing by customer group, sales channel and input ingredient cost.
When menu pricing connects to recipe cost, owners can make decisions based on more complete information.
Pricing reviews may include
Wastage and preparation cost visibility
Include wastage and preparation reality in cost control.
A recipe may look profitable on paper, but real operations can change the result. Wastage, expiry, over-portioning, preparation loss and inconsistent usage can all reduce margin.
Tab2Kit connects recipe costing with inventory and wastage visibility so owners can better understand where food cost problems may come from.
This helps move food-cost control closer to real daily operations.
Ingredient quantity
Supplier price
Portion size
Preparation loss
Wastage
Expiry
Batch/lot issues
Packaging cost
Channel-based pricing
Why it matters
Why recipe costing matters
A basic POS can show what you sold. It may not show whether what you sold was actually profitable.
Recipe costing helps turn menu management into profit management.
Related features
Related Tab2Kit features
Explore the connected workflows that make recipe costing useful in daily food operations.
Inventory & Ingredient Management
Track ingredient-level stock, wastage, expiry dates, batch/lot information and perishable stock alerts.
Learn moreSupplier & Purchasing Management
Manage suppliers, purchase orders, supplier debt and supplier price comparison.
Learn moreMenu & Flexible Pricing
Manage pricing by customer group, sales channel and input ingredient cost.
Learn moreReports & Profit Management
Use menu-item analysis and cost-control reports to understand performance and margin.
Learn morePOS & Order Management
Connect sales activity to menu-item performance and reporting.
Learn moreFAQ
Frequently asked questions
Practical answers about BOM, recipe costing, supplier cost changes and pricing visibility.
What is BOM in a restaurant or cafe?
BOM means Bill of Materials. In a restaurant or cafe, it refers to the ingredients, quantities and components required to make a menu item.
Does Tab2Kit support recipe costing?
Yes. Tab2Kit supports BOM, recipes and food-cost calculations for menu items.
Can Tab2Kit connect recipes to ingredients?
Yes. Tab2Kit can connect menu items to ingredient lists, quantities and recipe structure.
Can supplier price changes affect recipe cost?
Yes. Tab2Kit is designed to connect supplier and ingredient cost information with recipe costing and menu-cost visibility.
Can recipe costing help with menu pricing?
Yes. Recipe costing helps owners understand whether menu prices still make sense after ingredient costs, supplier prices and wastage are considered.
Can Tab2Kit support flexible pricing?
Yes. Tab2Kit supports flexible pricing by customer group, sales channel and input ingredient cost.
Does recipe costing connect with inventory?
Yes. Recipe costing connects with ingredient-level inventory, wastage, expiry and stock visibility.
Does recipe costing connect with reports?
Yes. Recipe and cost data can support menu-item analysis, cost-control reports and profit visibility.
BOM, ingredients, cost and margin
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