Getting accurate costing for all ingredients added to a recipe can be difficult when the ingredient needs to be prepped or altered before use. For example various produce or loaves of bread need to be cut into slices.
There are a couple ways to set up these ingredients to get accurate costing on your recipes. Our primary way is to use prep actions to show that the ingredient under went a prep step before being added to a recipe. For more information about prep actions see this help article.
In a few cases prep actions are unable to make the proper conversion. This occurs when a purchase unit of measure is a container or each unit and you want to use the ingredient on your recipe as a smaller increment of itself, like a wedge or slice.
For example, your business buys cucumbers by the case, in that case is 40 cucumbers. This makes the purchase UoM case=40each. In your recipes you want to use the cucumber by the slice, which is also an each or container type unit. How do we set that up and get an accurate cost per slice?
The best way is to use a sub recipe to convert the ingredient to smaller amounts of itself. Lets take our cucumber example, say we get 20 slices from 1 cucumber. In this case we would set up a recipe, with the 1 each cucumber and a total yield of 20 slices (each).
Once created, this sub recipe can be used on all other recipes like an ingredient to set up costing by the slice of cucumber. This example can also be used to slice loaves of bread or other ingredients that need to be converted to smaller versions of itself. Allowing for accurate costing!
If you have more questions about setting up a sub recipe or prep action reach out to support@getrmeez.com.