Profit Blueprint: Interactive Pricing Engine

The Excel calculator that turns your costs into a confident retail price — with your labor paid and your profit margin protected.

The most common way food businesses underprice? They charge for ingredients and forget to charge for themselves.

The Interactive Pricing Engine fixes that permanently. Set your global standards once — your hourly labor rate, your waste buffer, your target profit margin — and then for every order, just enter your ingredient cost, packaging cost, and prep hours. The engine instantly calculates:

- Your total adjusted cost (with slippage buffer built in)

- Your real labor charge for the job

- Your recommended retail price at your target margin

- Your total profit in dollars for the order

- Your recommended price per guest — exact, and rounded to the nearest $5 for clean quoting

It uses the target-margin method (dividing by the remaining margin, not multiplying costs) — the professional approach that guarantees your business keeps its intended percentage of every sale.

Includes a full instructions tab so you're pricing your first order within minutes.

Format: Excel file (.xlsx), instant download. Works in Excel and Google Sheets.

Pairs with: The Portion & Sourcing Matrix — get both together in The Cost to Quote System (CA$59) and save, or get everything plus a 1:1 session in the Business Growth Suite (CA$297). https://payhip.com/b/Su0gM