Menu Costing & Engineering Pack
22 prompts for the calculation most venues have never run — what every dish earns after cost, which quadrant it sits in, and the item to cut even though you are attached to it.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •Every dish costed before a word of description is written, because a dish that reads beautifully at 78% gross profit is a different decision from the same dish at 52%
- •Margin and volume placed on one grid, so the item to remove becomes obvious rather than sentimental
- •Cash contribution per dish per month, since a strong percentage on four covers is worth less than a weaker one on ninety
- •An explicit check for the loss-leader worth protecting — the dish people choose you for, which the arithmetic alone would tell you to cut
This is one section of The Restaurant & Hospitality Handbook. The full toolkit adds 7 more sections and 136 prompts in total for $43.
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Menu Writing & Costing
22 promptsDish descriptions that sell without adjective fatigue, gross profit per plate before the dish goes on, menu engineering by margin and popularity, and the item to remove.
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The dish that is always ordered is not necessarily the dish making you money, and you cannot find out by looking at the menu.
This is the Menu Writing & Costing section of The Restaurant & Hospitality Handbook, sold on its own — 22 prompts for owners whose service runs fine and whose margins do not.
The central prompt places every dish by margin and by volume, then shows the monthly cash each one actually contributes. The interesting quadrant is high volume, low margin — that is what your week is made of, and it is what is holding your income down. For each dish there it gives you three concrete options: raise the price and by how much, reduce the time or cost and specifically how, or take it off.
It also does something the arithmetic cannot do alone, which is identify the loss-leader worth keeping. Some dishes are a reason people choose you at all, and cutting them on margin is how a venue becomes efficient and empty.
If you also need no-show reduction, rotas, supplier negotiation, review handling or filling quiet days, the full toolkit covers all eight areas.
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| AI Models | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash |
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| Lifetime Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creator Rating | PromptWolf (99.2%) | PromptWolf (99.2%) | Aria Thorne (98.5%) | Elena Rostova (98.9%) |
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High volume, low margin, and I had no idea
Two of our three most-ordered dishes. Repriced one and re-specced the other with a component nobody has noticed. Same covers, meaningfully more money.
It told me to keep a loss-making dish
Said the wings were a genuine reason people pick us and to protect them. Every other bit of advice I have read would have had me cut them on margin alone.
Get your numbers first
I bought it, opened it, and immediately had to go and cost forty dishes. That is not the pack's fault but do not expect output on day one.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does this relate to The Restaurant & Hospitality Handbook?
This is one section of The Restaurant & Hospitality Handbook, sold on its own for people who only have this problem. It contains the same 22 prompts as that part of the toolkit — nothing is held back or rewritten. If you need more than this one area, the full toolkit is $43 and covers 8 sections with 136 prompts.
Do I need my food costs to use this?
Yes, and that is the point of it. Approximate figures work fine; the exercise fails entirely without any. Most owners find gathering them takes a weekend and changes what they charge.
Should I buy this or the full toolkit?
This if your problem is specifically margin. The full toolkit if no-shows, staffing, suppliers, reviews or quiet Tuesdays are also costing you — it covers all eight areas including this one.
How is it delivered?
A PDF with all 22 prompts, delivered within 24 hours of purchase. Copy, fill in the bracketed variables, and paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.