Control recipe costs and kitchen consistency.

Cost per serving is calculated automatically from current ingredient prices. Each recipe shows its ingredient list with unit, quantity and current price, an auto-calculated cost per portion, and a gross margin display against your selling price. Version history tracks cost changes over time, so you can see how a portion cost has moved instead of discovering it at month end.

Yes, when recipes are linked to inventory items. As soon as a product is sold, the configured recipe quantities are deducted from the linked inventory items, so stock reflects what the kitchen actually served without a separate entry step. That auto deduction on sale is what makes usage tracking possible from ordinary service.

Usage tracking compares planned usage against actual kitchen performance. A theoretical-versus-actual view lists each ingredient with its theoretical quantity, actual quantity, unit cost and margin impact, and wastage is tracked against expected consumption. The point is visibility into cost changes before they land on your P&L.

Batch production is supported. A recipe can carry its own yield per batch — a build that produces 24 servings, for instance — and recipe yield adjustment for batch products is available when configured, so an item prepped in bulk still costs and deducts correctly on a per-portion basis.

Allergy and nutritional information can be recorded per portion, so the details you hold for a dish live alongside the recipe that defines it and change when that recipe changes. Vertex manages this as recipe data you maintain — it does not verify ingredient declarations from suppliers and is not a substitute for your own allergen checks and kitchen procedures.