• Download recipe costings

  If you don't already have the recipe costings for your recipes, see how to create a new recipe costing for your dishes and preparations in haddock. Go to Recipes from the side navigation bar. Click the dish. [](https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/744723591/25bc5f1eFew readers

• Preparations: everything you need to know

  🤔 What are preparations? They are the recipes used in more than one recipe costing. For example, mayonnaise is used in the tartare dish, in the Russian salad, and as a dipping sauce for chicken fingers. We explain how to create a preparation with haddock here. 🤔 Can I add a preparation inside another preparation in haddock? Yes, you can add preparations inside preparations. **Few readers

• Convert ingredients to a base unit (Kg, L or units) for recipe costings

  Why? 📦 Converting purchase formats (boxes, bottles...) to a base unit of measure (kilograms, liters...) is essential. 🚚 When working with different suppliers and products, purchase formats often vary, which can create confusion and errors in cost control, recipe costings, and inventory. 🍔 Converting all purchase formats to a base unit makes it possible to compare prices more accurately, define the quantity of product used in recipe costings, and control production costs. CoFew readers

• Duplicate recipe costings in one click 🍔

  How many times have you wanted to replicate the structure of a dish from your menu to create a new recipe costing? 🍔 With this action, you can duplicate dishes in one click. Select the recipe costing you want to duplicate. Click the three dots next to the dish name. Select the Duplicate option. [](https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/824909792/92fe9101d1fFew readers

• Create a recipe costing for a dish/preparation

  📍 Create Preparations Start your preparation Add ingredients to your preparation 📍 Create Dishes Start your dish Add ingredients to your dish Create Preparations Preparations are the sub-recipes we add to the final dish; they can be stocks, sauces, dressings, garnishes,... Use preparations to streamline recipe costingFew readers

• Recipe costing FAQs

  How do I create a recipe costing? It is very easy! Here is the step-by-step guide for creating recipe costings. How do I add ingredients to a recipe costing? Click "New dish" or "New preparation", go to the tab at the bottom called "Ingredients", and click "Add ingredient" 🥕 By default you can add products; if you need a preparation, switch to "Preparations". Save the changes and review thFew readers

• Add ingredients to a recipe costing

  Ingredients are added to dish and preparation recipe costings. See how to create a recipe costing. ⚠️ Note: You need the Ingredients and notes (add and edit ingredients) permission to do this. Open the dish/preparation where you want to add the ingredient. Go to the "Ingredients" tab. [![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/a/d/b/fadbf6f501c36000/b4820992-4e23-Few readers

• Add the allergens for each product

  Choose a product from the Products page. Click the three dots in the top-right corner to open the product Settings. Go to Use in Recipe Costings and expand the allergens list. [](https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/850800409/d92ee41d01ee3c9e013Few readers

• View and download recipe costings on mobile

  If you don't already have the recipe costings for your recipes, see how to create a new recipe costing for your dishes and preparations in haddock on your computer. [](https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/752438369/26c4c9b06664d9676ac0dc47/mobile_boms.png?expires=1755015300&signFew readers

• 🥘 Create recipe costings from your POS items

  This can be very useful for items such as wine bottles, soft drinks, or other dishes and preparations that require very few products. Here's how to do it 🚀 Go to the POS items list and select the product you want to link to a recipe costing. For example, "Glass of white wine". Click the option at the end of the column that says "Link dish" (or "Link menu"). [![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/2/f/2/d/2f2dedf86f4ba200/6c9e218d-4f16-486f-b38f-f72260_gFew readers

• ⚖️ Track items sold by weight from your POS

  If you sell an item by weight (for example, prawns by the kilo), you can configure haddock to track the real consumption and inventory, no matter which POS you use. How it works When the POS sends a sale, it tells haddock how many units of an item were sold. To work with weight, we use a small trick: we create a recipe costing where 1 unit = 1 kg of the product. Then haddock automatically converts the units the POS reports into the right amount of product consumed. If the POS senFew readers

• AI dish generation

  The AI dish generation tool reads your menus, recipe sheets, or POS exports and turns them into dishes and preparations inside haddock. It extracts the dish name, type, price, ingredients, quantities and units, and where possible matches each ingredient to a product already in your account. This article explains what the feature does, how it works under the hood, and how to use it. What it does From a single upload, the tool produces draft dishes that include: Dish name, kind (dish,Few readers

• Create menu recipe costings and connect them to your POS

  A menu recipe costing lets you calculate the cost, profit and margin of a full menu: for example, a tasting menu, a set menu or a POS combo with several options. Before creating the menu, you need to have the recipe costings for the dishes that make it up. A menu is not built directly from products: it is built from dishes that already have their ingredients and costs configured. Before you start Create the recipe costing for each dish in the menu. For example: *Caesar sFew readers