Pricing Assistant Standard
A clean, focused pricing tool for restaurants and food businesses. Enter your ingredients, labor, and overhead — and instantly see your true cost per item and a recommended profitable price.
What you see, instantly
Every time you update an input, Pricing Assistant recalculates automatically:
Why guessing your price costs you money
The hidden costs most owners miss
A plate's price isn't just ingredients. Every item you sell carries a slice of your rent, your team's wages, the trimmed fat you throw away, and every utility bill you pay.
- • Waste — trim, spoilage, over-prep
- • Labor — the minutes your team spends per item
- • Overhead — rent, utilities, insurance divided per item
Pricing Assistant does the math
Fill in your numbers once. Every field updates the result in real time — no formulas to maintain, no spreadsheet to break.
Everything Standard includes
Purpose-built for single-item costing. Simple enough to use every day, accurate enough to trust.
Ingredient Costing
Add up to 8 ingredients per item. Enter your purchase price and package size — Pricing Assistant handles unit conversions (lb → oz, kg → g, l → ml, and more) automatically.
Waste Tracking
Set a global waste percentage that applies to all ingredients, or override it per ingredient. Pricing Assistant folds waste into the true cost so it never gets forgotten.
Labor Cost
Enter your hourly rate and the minutes it takes to make one item. Pricing Assistant calculates the exact labor cost per plate — no guessing, no rounding.
Overhead Allocation
Enter your total monthly overhead (rent, utilities, insurance, etc.) and how many items you sell per month. Pricing Assistant splits the overhead fairly across every item.
Recommended Price
Set your target profit margin and Pricing Assistant tells you exactly what to charge. It also shows your break-even price — the minimum you can charge without losing money.
Save & Load Profiles
Save any item as a profile (.json file) and load it back any time. Perfect for building out your menu item by item, or revisiting costs when ingredient prices change.
What's included in Standard
- ✓Up to 8 ingredients per item
- ✓Automatic unit conversion (weight, volume, count)
- ✓Per-ingredient waste % override
- ✓Global waste % default
- ✓Labor cost (hourly rate + minutes per item)
- ✓Monthly overhead allocation
- ✓Break-even price calculation
- ✓Recommended price at target margin
- ✓Current price status (Under / On / Over)
- ✓Profit & margin at current price
- ✓Live auto-recalculate on every input
- ✓Save & load item profiles
- –Competitor price analysis
- –What-if scenario planner
- –Menu Manager + CSV export
- –Advanced weighted labor tiers
- –Itemized overhead builder
- –Batch prep calculator
Need more power? There's a Pro edition.
Pro adds competitor analysis, a what-if scenario planner, full menu manager, advanced labor tiers, itemized overhead builder, batch prep calculator, CC & delivery app fee pass-through, and CSV export — for $119.99.
All Standard tools in one place
Know exactly what your item costs
Stop pricing by gut feel. Pricing Assistant Standard gives you the numbers — in seconds.
Subscription access is coming soon through the Faraj Software Solutions client portal.
Want the full toolkit? View Pricing Assistant Pro ($119.99) →
Support
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