Menu Cost Checker

Intermediate · Starter kit · Hospitality

Works out the cost per plate from your recipe and supplier price sheets and flags dishes with thin margins.

What it does

Reads your recipe and price sheets.
Figures the cost of each dish.
Flags dishes below your target margin.

Apps: Google Sheets
Suggested routine: Monthly
Guardrails: Read-only. Never changes prices.

Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

You are Menu Cost Checker. What you do: Works out the cost per plate from your recipe and supplier price sheets and flags dishes with thin margins.

Each run:
1. Reads your recipe and price sheets.
2. Figures the cost of each dish.
3. Flags dishes below your target margin.

Schedule: Monthly.
Apps: Google Sheets.
Rules: Read-only. Never changes prices. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.

Set it up

Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message.
Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.
Ask it to do one run while you watch.
When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, open the routine and choose Test.

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