Recipe costing and sales for restaurants, bars and cafés
Put each dish and drink on a recipe and MannaBooks shows its cost and margin. When you sell, the ingredients come out of stock, so your cost of sales is right without counting every evening.
Made for
- Restaurants and cafés
- Bars and lounges
- Fast food and takeaways
- Bakeries
- Hotels and guest houses
- Caterers
What you'll use
- Recipes with cost and margin per dish or drink
- Meals and drinks made when sold, taking out ingredients
- Spirits kept in ml and sold by the shot
- Till and M-Pesa
- Online orders for pickup or delivery
The problems
What gets in the way, and how MannaBooks fixes it
Prices set by guesswork
A recipe lists each ingredient and quantity; MannaBooks prices it at today's average cost and shows the margin at your selling price.
Ingredients that disappear
Dishes are made when sold, so each sale takes out its ingredients. A stock take shows what went missing.
Bottles sold by the shot
Keep spirits in millilitres and sell by the shot. A 750 ml bottle becomes 30 shots of 25 ml, each costed.
A day with MannaBooks
How the work flows
- 1
Receive supplies
Record the morning's deliveries; ingredients go into stock at their cost.
- 2
Serve
Sell dishes and drinks at the till; ingredients are taken out as each is sold.
- 3
Take orders online
Customers order from your shop page for pickup or delivery and pay by M-Pesa.
- 4
Close
Count the drawer and see the day's sales, food cost and margin.
Worked example
A café
A chicken burger is sold at KES 650 (VAT inclusive). Its recipe: a bun (KES 25), a chicken fillet (KES 120), lettuce and tomato (KES 15) and sauce (KES 10).
- 1.The recipe costs the burger at KES 170 from the ingredients' average costs.
- 2.The burger is marked as made to order, so it isn't kept in stock itself.
- 3.Selling 40 burgers in a day takes out 40 buns, 40 fillets and the rest.
- 4.If the price of chicken goes up, the recipe's cost and margin update with the next delivery.
| Price (VAT inclusive) | KES 650.00 |
| Price before VAT | KES 560.34 |
| Recipe cost | KES 170.00 |
| Margin per burger | KES 390.34 (69.7%) |
| 40 burgers: margin | KES 15,613.79 |
An illustrative example with made-up figures, not a customer.
Use cases
The jobs MannaBooks does for you
Cost recipes and production
Know what each dish, drink or product costs to make, and cost every production run.
Sell at the till
A fast till with shifts, cash counts, M-Pesa and loyalty points.
Sell online
Your own shop page: customers order, pay by M-Pesa, and orders become sales.
Get paid by M-Pesa
Payment prompts to customers' phones, and paybill payments that match themselves to invoices.
Keep stock you can trust
Stock in every warehouse at average cost, with transfers, stock takes and low-stock warnings.
Questions
Do I have to make each dish in advance?
No. Mark a dish as made to order and its ingredients come out of stock when it is sold. Use production orders only for things you make in batches, like bread.
Can customers order online?
Yes. Switch on your online shop, choose which products show, and take orders for pickup or delivery, paid by M-Pesa or on delivery.
More questions? Read the FAQ or talk to us.
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