Plate-cost dashboard built with Lovable (Lovable recipe)

Outcome: A simple internal web app showing cost per plate and food-cost % for top menu items, updating as ingredient prices change.

What you need

• Google Sheet: ingredients (unit, latest price) and recipes (ingredient, qty, menu price)
• Lovable account
• Optional: the invoice price-alert recipe feeding the price sheet

Steps

1. Prompt Lovable: 'Build an internal dashboard that reads ingredients and recipes data and shows cost per plate, food-cost % and margin per menu item, sorted by worst food-cost %.'
2. Upload or connect your data (CSV import or a connected database); check the math on 3 dishes by hand.
3. Ask for a 'what if' slider: change an ingredient price and see affected dishes.
4. Add a red flag when food-cost % exceeds your target (e.g., 30%).
5. Share the private link with the chef and GM; refresh prices weekly.

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