PrepSheet
the paperwork station — built by a working UK chef

Prep sheet — braised short rib

EXAMPLE COSTING · 40 PTN
Short rib6.0 kg£54.00
Red wine1.5 L£9.75
Mirepoix2.0 kg£4.40
Stock & aromatics3.0 L£3.60
Batch cost£71.75
Cost per portion÷ 40£1.79
↑ this number is the whole job.
Know it before service, not after the accounts.
Chef built · UK SHEET 1 / 3

What the sheets do for you

NO MACROS · NO LOGIN
  • Automatic ingredient costing — type quantities, the sums fill in
  • Cost per portion & per plate — the number that sets your price
  • Batch scaling that holds — 10 portions to 200 without re-typing
  • Yield & trim accounting — cost what you serve, not what you buy
  • Printable prep sheets — the pass copy, straight off the file
  • Works in Excel & Google Sheets — your file, on your machine
one file per job — no “platform”, no subscription.
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Why these exist

FROM THE CHEF

I cost menus for a living. Every template in the pack is a sheet I actually use — built on shift, fixed on shift. The same chef runs @offthepass on YouTube, where the cost-breakdown videos come off these exact spreadsheets.

Nothing phones home. The free browser tools keep your numbers on your device — no signup, no account, no tracking of your costs.

if a £9 template saves one badly-priced dish,
it’s paid for itself. — chef
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Eleven tools on the rail.

each one is a docket — take what your kitchen needs
DOCKET 01

Food Cost & Menu Pricing

Cost a dish line by line, set the menu price from a target GP instead of a guess.

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DOCKET 02

Cake Pricing Calculator

Ingredients, time and overhead into one honest cake price — for bakers who undercharge.

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DOCKET 03

Menu Profit Matrix

Plot every dish by popularity and margin. See what to push, re-price or drop.

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DOCKET 04

Catering Quote & Price-Per-Head

Build event quotes that survive contact with the actual shopping list.

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DOCKET 05

Stock-Take & Actual Food Cost

Count what’s on the shelf, get your real food cost — not the theoretical one.

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DOCKET 06

Allergen Matrix (UK 14)

Every dish against the UK’s 14 declarable allergens, printable for the pass and EHO.

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DOCKET 07

Weekly GP & Food-Cost Tracker

Sales and food cost in, GP% and running averages out. Catch a slide in week two. 26 weeks per sheet.

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DOCKET 08

Labour Cost & Wage %

Rota hours against takings — the other number that quietly kills kitchens.

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DOCKET 09

Par-Level Prep & Order Sheet

Pars, on-hand, and the order writes itself. The end of the 10pm supplier text.

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DOCKET 10

Coffee Shop Drinks Margin

Milk, shots, cups and lids per drink — see which coffees actually make money.

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DOCKET 11

Recipe Scaler & Batch Converter

Scale any recipe up or down and convert units without a single wrong sum.

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The number to aim for

28–35% food cost

UK kitchens generally aim for a 28–35% food cost — a 65–72% gross profit. If you don’t know a dish’s number, you can’t know which side of that line it’s on. That’s the whole point of the sheet.