Plan the week's menus with variety, balance and cost control. Free download.
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Planning the weekly menu lets you: 1) Buy only what you need, 2) Keep enough variety that regulars don't get bored, 3) Control each menu's food cost before you serve it, 4) Make better use of ingredients across dishes and 5) Take the daily stress out of deciding what to cook.
The template has a tagging system to mark the type of protein (meat, fish, pulses, egg), the cooking technique (griddled, roasted, stewed, fried) and the base ingredient (pasta, rice, potato, vegetables). That way you can see at a glance if you're repeating something too often during the week.
Yes. The template has a costs tab where you enter the cost of each dish (from your recipe cards) and the total cost of the menu is worked out automatically. That lets you adjust the combination of dishes to stay on your target food cost.
The full version includes a feature that takes the planned dishes and their linked recipe cards and produces a consolidated shopping list for the whole week, grouped by supplier or product category.
Yes. The template lets you set up different menu lines for each day. It's ideal if you offer a standard and a premium menu, or have vegetarian or gluten-free options to plan separately.
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