Margin Analysis
Costing Analysis tells you what you should charge. This tells you what's actually happening at the price you charge today — reverse-engineered from your real ingredient, overhead, utility, and labor costs, with ingredient cost itself now sourced straight from Menu Calculator rather than estimated twice.
Enter your numbers in Margin Calculation, near the bottom of this page — your Results, right below, update on their own as you go. Once you've started, two floating buttons let you jump between the two.
Everything below is calculated automatically from what you enter in Margin Calculation, further down this page — there's nothing to fill in up here.
How your true cost is calculated
Right now, every portion — whichever dish it is — absorbs:
| Dish | Ingredient | + Overhead/portion | + Manpower/portion | = True cost |
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What your menu is actually earning
Compares against your actual numbers above — it doesn't change your prices or costs, only this gap and the note below.
Per-item breakdown
Where each item lands
Popularity (how much of your volume) against contribution margin (how much RM profit per portion, before overhead) — the standard menu-engineering view. A high margin percentage and a high margin in ringgit aren't always the same item.
Cost structure: your numbers vs. guide
Ingredients Overhead Manpower Margin
Reflects your whole menu's blended cost structure at today's prices and volumes.
What stands out
Enter your numbers
Fill in each tab below — your Results, further up the page, update automatically as you go.
Fixed overhead
Variable overhead — utilities
Electricity
Pick your equipment, set hours used per day. Wattages are typical starting points — change any of them to match your actual equipment.
| Equipment | Watts | Hours / day | Remove |
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Rate used: Sarawak Energy's current stated average, RM0.28/kWh —
Estimated electricity: RM0.00/month
Water
Sarawak commercial (W3) rate: RM22.00 minimum, then RM0.97 per 1,000L up to 25,000L, RM1.06 beyond. Have a bill instead? Just type the total.
Estimated water: RM0.00/month
Gas (cylinder / "tong gas")
Micro/small F&B traders can typically still access the subsidised rate up to 42kg (three 14kg cylinders) without a permit — this is a live, evolving policy area, worth confirming your current status rather than assuming.
Estimated gas: RM0.00/month