RECIPE WRITING & COSTING

One of the key and often overlooked tools in a successful restaurant is a well-written recipe. You, as a business owner, may know exactly how to make your signature dishes, but do your employees? Having written ingredient amounts and instructions help ensure consistency and cost control in your kitchen and allow your employees to execute your dishes the same every time, whether you’re there to monitor or not. Your customers will also appreciate that their favorite dishes will look and taste the same every time they order them. Our recipe writing services include photography, menu and ingredient management software set-up (we recommend Parsley App, which offers a free 14-day trial) and creating and developing new, inventive, delicious, and cost-effective recipes.
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Recipe Writing

Here is a simple example of a smoothie recipe we developed for a juice bar after careful market research, ingredient sourcing, and thorough recipe testing and development. The goal was to capitalize on current market trends surrounding immunity-boosting and healthy recipes. We include keywords in the menu item name and description so customers searching for those menu items on Google can find your restaurant efficiently.

RECIPE DEVELOPMENT

In addition to providing easy to follow instructions and easily scalable ingredient quantities,, our restaurant consultants can provide detailed recipe cost breakdowns by ingredient and cost percentage of the total. By knowing and analyzing each recipe’s costs and each ingredient in that recipe, you can make informed decisions about how to price your menu items to maximize profit and which ingredients you can cut back on or find less expensive sources for to keep your prime costs low.

Above, you can see that the ginger root in the recipe, despite being one of the smaller volumes of ingredients, comprises 37% of the total cost and that by halving the amount in the formula (or finding a less expensive component), you could reduce food cost by 17 cents, which adds up! Unilever Brands presents an excellent learning module on why recipe costing is vital to your restaurant’s profit margin and bottom line. Our restaurant consultants can help you navigate the process or perform it for you for as little as $25 per recipe.

NUTRITIONAL INFO

The final component of our recipe writing services is providing accurate nutritional information so your business can highlight low fat, low carb, or other nutritionally beneficial recipes to your customers. Many restaurant-goers these days are looking for menu items that subscribe to specific diets like gluten-free, keto, or paleo, and by providing this information you can attract the right customers to your business.

Set your restaurant apart from the competition by being transparent about the nutritional content of your foods and invite your customers on your healthy food journey! Here is a great report from the International Food Information Council Foundation on Food and Health that can shed some light on what consumers are looking for and how your business can capitalize on it by having professionally researched, written, and analyzed recipes by a restaurant consulting firm like Uncommon Fruit LLC.

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Recipe Testing

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Recipe Writing

Recipe Costing

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Recipe Testing

Recipe Development

Recipe Writing

Recipe Costing

Nutritional Analysis

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