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Cost & Inventory

“What does breakfast cost you per guest — and why did it go up?”

Plan F&B and operating costs from purchase prices, standard consumption and service volume. Follow the same data from recipe costing to outlet comparisons. When actual cost differs from budget, investigate the products and consumption assumptions behind the gap.

Cost control · F&B · Purchasing · Finance

Expected outcome

What changes

  • Recipe-level portion cost — theoretical against actual consumption
  • Variance is split into its price and volume components
  • Inventory budget derives from standard consumption × planned volume × (last cost + inflation)
  • Threshold breaches on critical items raise alerts
DDRM BUDGETPRODUCT VIEW

Cost variance bridge

Breakfast · July 2026
Planned₺100K
Actual₺115K
Cost variance+15%

Budget to actual · TRY thousands

100+12+8−5115 BudgetPriceVolumeMixActual

Price increases and consumption changes call for different actions.

Illustrative interface · sample data
WORKFLOW

From data to a management decision in three steps.

  1. 01

    Set standards

    Link recipe quantities and standard consumption to the relevant stock items.

  2. 02

    Budget from volume

    Connect planned covers or room nights and price assumptions to the cost plan.

  3. 03

    Explain the variance

    Compare actual consumption with plan and assess price and volume effects.

HOW WOULD YOU USE IT?

Is the cost increase coming from purchase prices or consumption?

When breakfast cost exceeds budget, review covers, recipe quantities and purchase prices together. Separate the effect of serving more guests from unit price increases to agree concrete actions with purchasing and operations.

Starting data
Stock items, recipes, unit costs, standard consumption, covers and actual consumption.
The decision to make
Which products, recipes or outlets require price or consumption controls?
01

Recipe and portion cost

Every menu item has a recipe, and every stock item in it has a last purchase price. When one price changes, the cost of every affected recipe updates. Multiply by covers and you have theoretical cost; the gap against actual consumption is your waste and shrinkage analysis.

02

Deriving the inventory budget

You do not type the inventory budget. A standard consumption coefficient, planned volume (room nights, covers) and an inflation scenario applied to the last purchase price produce it together. Change the volume assumption and the inventory budget recalculates itself.

03

Variance analysis

Cost variance splits into two components: price effect and volume effect. You can tell a supplier increase apart from hosting more guests than expected. The two call for very different decisions.

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