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Do I have to write a recipe for every dish?
Get Menu team ANSWERED12 August 2026
No. A dish with no recipe simply moves nothing off the shelf and shows no food cost. Start with your ten best sellers, because that is where nearly all your spend is, and add the rest when you feel like it. Partial recipes are genuinely useful; waiting until the whole menu is done is how it never gets done.
