What is a recipe Yield?
Yields are a very important part of recipe creation. This is how we know how much is created from your recipe, whether that amount is one serving, a batch recipe that creates 30 servings or you have a specific weight or volume amount.
Why are yields important?
Filling in your recipe yield is required to:
Accurately display recipe costs
Use the Food Cost Calculator to show food cost% and profit.
Calculate nutrition information.
Show cost data in the menus feature.
How do I enter a yield?
At the top of your recipe you will see the section to fill in your yield.
Always enter a quantity and units for your yield.
Example yields are:
1 serving
1 Batch
5000 grams
3 Quarts
If you want to know the measured amount of your yield you can use the auto calculate yield function.
Learn more about auto calculating yield from this article.
Why is there an error on my sub recipe when I use auto calculate yield?
This happens when the yield is set with a different unit of measure than the sub recipe. An example would be if your yield is in grams and your sub recipe calls for 1 serving of the recipe.
To fix this your sub recipe will need a UoM Equivalency to convert 1 serving to the weight or volume measure your are using as the yield units on your parent recipe. See video below for more.
I entered my yield why do I still get an error for nutrition.
Nutrition is calculated in weight measures. A UoM Equivalency will need to be set up on the recipe and potentially each ingredient or sub recipe to tell the app how much each is equal to in weight.
For more information on UoM Equivalency go here.