Williams, Stanley & Co.

Hospitality Calculators


Quick answers to the questions operators ask us most, with the method shown so you can check the working. Nothing is gated and nothing is sent anywhere.

Recipe Costing

Cost a dish line by line from pack prices and yields, and see the true GP, the cash margin and the price you need. Handles the yield arithmetic that flatters every hand-built spreadsheet.

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Tronc Calculator

What a properly run tronc saves in National Insurance, employer and employee, plus how the pot allocates across roles on a points system.

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Gross Profit

True GP on a dish or drink with VAT and wastage handled the way your P&L handles them, plus what delivery commission does to the same item.

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Labour Percentage

True labour cost by department with NIC, pension and holiday accrual included, plus sales per labour hour, the metric that does not move when you change prices.

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Business Rates Relief

Rates and RHL relief across an estate, including the cash cap that applies per business rather than per site, the thing that catches multi-site groups. England only.

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Eat-In vs Takeaway VAT

Whether an item is standard-rated or zero-rated, and what the channel is worth on the same price. Covers the five hot-food tests and the categories that are standard-rated whatever you do.

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Break-Even

Covers a week before a site makes money, checked against what it can physically seat, plus your margin of safety at current trade.

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In development

Energy cost benchmark, how your energy spend per cover compares with similar sites, built with our utilities partner Rye. Register your interest and we will tell you when it is live.

How to use them

Every calculator shows its method and a worked example, so you can check the arithmetic rather than trust it. Change any figure and results update as you type: nothing is submitted, and nothing leaves your browser.

Download as CSV saves your inputs and results in a file that opens in Excel or Sheets, so a costing can go into a menu review or a board pack.

If there is a calculation you do by hand every period and would rather not, tell us. That is how this list gets written.