How Do I Use the Recipes Section?

The Recipes section lets you browse every dish on your menu and drill into full cost and environmental detail for each one.

Browsing Recipes (Gallery View)

Food / Beverage Toggle
What it does: Switches the gallery between food items and beverage items.
Why it matters: Keeps the view focused, especially useful on properties with large, mixed menus.

Filters (Property, Revenue Centre, Sub Category, Status, Performance)
What they do: Narrow the gallery down to specific outlets, categories, or performance levels.
Why it matters: Lets you quickly isolate, for example, only "Replace"-rated items, or only Pasta dishes at a specific outlet, without scrolling through your full menu.

Performance Badge (Excellent / Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory / Replace)
What it shows: Each item's overall Menu Engineering rating, visible directly on its card.
Why it matters: Lets you spot problem items at a glance while browsing, before you even click in.

Search
What it does: Finds a specific item by name.
Why it matters: Faster than filtering when you already know exactly what you're looking for.

Recipe Detail Page

Clicking into any item from the gallery opens its full Recipe page.

Financial Details

Selling / Cost / Cost %
What it measures: The item's selling price, total cost to produce it, and cost as a percentage of selling price.
Why it matters: Cost % is one of the fastest ways to spot a pricing or portioning problem, if it's creeping up, either your ingredient costs have risen or your price hasn't kept pace.

Cost/Portion
What it measures: The cost to produce a single portion of the dish.
Why it matters: Useful for direct, apples-to-apples comparisons across items when deciding what to feature, promote, or reprice.

Misc. Cost & Wastage
What it measures: Additional costs beyond core ingredients (e.g., garnish, packaging), and cost attributed to ingredient waste in preparation.
Why it matters: Easy to overlook, but both quietly erode margin on paper-thin items. Worth checking if a dish's overall cost % looks higher than its ingredient list alone would suggest.

Ingredient-Level Detail (Qty Before/After, Cost/Kg, Wastage Cost, Cost)
What it measures: A full breakdown of every ingredient in the dish, quantities, unit cost, waste, and total cost per ingredient.
Why it matters: Pinpoints exactly which ingredient is driving a dish's cost, essential if you're considering a substitution to protect margin without changing the dish's identity.

Environmental Details (per Ingredient)

Carbon Footprint, Water Footprint, Land Use, Energy Use
What it measures: The same four environmental impact categories from the Environmental dashboard, calculated per individual ingredient.
Why it matters: Shows you exactly which ingredient in a dish is driving its environmental impact, often it's a single ingredient (like a specific protein) carrying most of the footprint, useful when looking for a lower-impact substitution.

EF Score
What it measures: The Environmental Footprint Single Score, a methodology developed by the European Commission and used in ADEME's Agribalyse database (the reference data WiseFins draws on for ingredient-level environmental impact). It combines 16 separate environmental indicators (climate change, water use, land use, resource depletion, and more) into one weighted score, expressed in mPt (eco-indicator points) per kg of product, where 1 mPt represents the average annual environmental load of one European inhabitant.
Why it matters: Rather than juggling four or five separate environmental numbers per ingredient, EF Score gives you one comparable figure, useful for quickly ranking ingredients by overall environmental impact rather than having to weigh multiple metrics against each other.

Performance Radar
What it measures: The same four-axis environmental radar shown in Menu Engineering (Energy Efficiency, CO2 Performance, Land Use Reduction, H2O Performance), specific to this item.
Why it matters: A fast visual read on where this specific dish's environmental strengths and weaknesses lie.

Actions Available on This Page

• Duplicate Recipe: create a copy of this recipe as a starting point for a new item.
• Edit Recipe: modify ingredients, quantities, or costs.
• Compare: benchmark this item against another.