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Here are a few reasons why recipes matter, followed by how to get them into Garde.

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Plate and Pour Costs Give You Real-Time Profitability Details

Real-time cost information allows you to set menu prices to achieve your food and bar cost goals.

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Portion and Prep Consistently

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Trim the Waste, Then the Fat

Easily record waste from your phone for both products and recipes to save money, manage shrinkage, and identify areas for improvement. The Menu Analysis visual takes your sales data and plots your dishes across a chart so you can see which ones are profitable and popular, and which ones need rethinking.

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Actuals vs. Theoreticals - What Should You Have?

With your recipes completed and PMIX mapping done, Actual vs. Theoretical reporting can flag waste, theft, or even inefficiencies in prep, letting your team make adjustments in the moment. These are some of the reasons recipes matter in Garde. They are at the center of controlling your costs.

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Recipe Onboarding Progress Tracker

  • Your current coverage percentage and how many more recipes you need to reach 80% coverage (for example, “58.3% covered — 9 more recipes to reach 80%”)
  • A breakdown of items with recipes versus total items, revenue covered versus total revenue, and the revenue gap remaining to hit the 80% target
  • POS Menu Item Mappings progress showing how many of your POS items are mapped to recipes versus how many are not yet mapped
Use these metrics to prioritize which recipes to build next. Focusing on high-revenue menu items first will close the coverage gap fastest. These are a few of the reasons why recipes are so powerful in Garde - they are fundamental to controlling your costs.

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How Do You Actually Enter Your Recipes?

Here are two options for those of you with a well-loved, greasy recipe binder:
  • AI Onboarding for Recipes supports a quick copy and paste of your ingredients into Garde
  • Recipe Setup Service lets you hire our team to build the recipes for you
    • Our AI tool supports a quick copy + paste of your ingredients into Garde
    • Hire us to build the recipes for you
You can still get a lot of value from Garde Recipes with just a few quick recipes to get you going:
  • Create basic recipes with your most expensive ingredients to start. For example, just add the meat (ground beef plus weight) and the most expensive toppings (avocado, bacon, etc.) to a burger recipe for now. This will give you a good sense of the plate cost.
  • Or create recipes for your 10 most popular menu items to start. Add others down the line as you have time.
You can still get a lot of value from Garde Recipes with just a few quick recipes to get you going:

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Here is how to get started.

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Now let’s get to it!

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Step 1: Create Recipe Types

Recipe Types:Video/Help Article

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Step 2: Create Recipes

Create your Prepared Item recipes first. These will be used in other recipes, so you will save time by having them in the system before you create other Menu Items. Creating a Recipe:Video/Help Article Cut and paste with the AI loader to speed up the process to get ingredients and instructions into Garde Copy & Paste with AI: Video/Help Article

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Central Settings: Allergens and Restrictions

Allergens (optional)
  1. Set up the list of allergens you want to track in Recipes
  2. Associate allergens with Products
  3. Recipes will now show allergens based on the products in those recipes
Allergens in Recipes:Video/Help Article Restrictions If you have more than one Garde restaurant, you probably have recipes that apply to some but not all locations. Set up recipe restrictions so your teams see only the recipes that apply to their location. Restrictions:Video/Help Article

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Tricky but Critical: Conversions and Yields

Conversions Many conversions from weight to volume (pound to cup) and each to weight (each to ounces) are in Garde. And, the system automatically scales up and down (knowing how many tablespoons are in a cup). But, you may have to do some conversions as you create recipes. Conversions:Video/Help Article Yields If you want to account for waste or shrinkage for more accurate plate costs, you will want to add yields. Create Prep Recipes with yields for items your team preps daily, or add the yields at the product level as you create recipes.