Food & Bakery pricing
Food-cost and labour-cost frameworks for food trucks, home bakeries, custom cake makers, and caterers.
Calculators
Pricing tools for food trucks, home bakeries, custom cake makers, and caterers.
Food Truck Menu Pricing Calculator
Set profitable food truck menu prices by food cost percentage, portion size, and overhead.
Open calculator →Home Bakery Pricing Calculator
Calculate home-bakery prices per item, dozen, or custom order with ingredient and labour cost.
Open calculator →Custom Cake Pricing Calculator
Price custom cakes by serving count, complexity tier, decorations, and delivery.
Open calculator →Catering Pricing Calculator
Quote catering per guest with food cost, service staff, rentals, and gratuity.
Open calculator →Guides & articles
Food-cost and labour-cost frameworks for food trucks, home bakeries, custom cake makers, and caterers.
The Ultimate Guide to Food Business Pricing: Food Trucks, Bakeries, and Catering
A complete pricing framework for food businesses — covering food economics, food cost percentage with batch costing, prime cost management, food truck menu engineering, home bakery cottage food law, custom cake pricing by serving and complexity, catering per-guest math, and a recipe cost calculator template.
Read the full guide →Food Cost Percentage Explained: A Practical Guide for Food Trucks and Bakeries
Master food cost percentage — the single most important number for profitable food pricing in 2025.
Cottage Food Law and Pricing: What Home Bakers Need to Know
How cottage food laws in your state affect what you can sell, where, and how to price it legally and profitably.
Baker’s Percentage Explained: Scale Recipes and Cost Them Accurately
The formula professional bakers use to scale recipes and cost them — with worked examples.
Food Truck Profit Margins: Industry Benchmarks and How to Beat Them
Average food truck profit margins, prime cost targets, and the menu engineering tricks that improve them.
Cake Pricing by Serving: The Tiered Approach Most Bakers Miss
Why pricing cakes by size alone fails, and how complexity tiers, decorations, and delivery should change your quote.
Cottage Food Laws by State: A 50-State Guide for Home Bakers (2025)
A 50-state reference for cottage food laws: which foods are allowed, where you can sell, license requirements, kitchen inspection rules, and labeling — with a comprehensive 50-state comparison table.
Food Business Insurance Cost Guide: What Food Trucks and Bakeries Need
A complete insurance cost guide for food trucks and bakeries — general liability, product liability, commercial auto, workers comp, and food contamination coverage — with 2025 cost ranges, state requirements, and policy-by-policy breakdowns.
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About the Food & Bakery category
Food-cost and labour-cost frameworks for food trucks, home bakeries, custom cake makers, and caterers.
This category brings together every Food & Bakery pricing calculator and every Food & Bakery pricing guide published on meyy.info — so a single page links the conceptual framework (the guides) with the actionable tools (the calculators). The recommended workflow is to start with the pillar guide if one exists for this category, read the methodology to understand the underlying cost model, then run the calculator with your real inputs to produce a defensible price.
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