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How to Use Food Yield Percentage

Explore all of the different ways you can use food yield percentage in your restaurant! Learn how to calculate it, and find out how it can be used in other parts of your business such as food costs and menu pricing.

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October 22, 2025
5 minutes to read

Do you know how much of each ingredient in your inventory you need to actually make a dish?

This is known as food yield, or yield percentage, and tells you how much of any ingredient is left after preparation and processing. This may include the parts of the vegetables left after peeling and coring or the usable meat after butchering.

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