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How moving-average food cost actually works
Plate cost lies until GRN lands. Moving-average cost is the quiet engine that turns purchases into truthful recipe economics.
SevaRan · 2026-07-03 · Food cost · purchasing · grn · food-cost
Unit cost is not a static master field
A recipe’s plate cost is only as true as the item cost underneath it. If you type a hopeful rupee rate and never update it after a expensive GRN, every menu margin is theater.
GRN is when cost becomes true
Purchase orders propose. Goods received notes settle. Moving-average cost folds the new receipt into the on-hand value so subsequent production and sales carry an honest unit cost — not last month’s estimate.
Recipe & BOM closes the commercial loop
Once item cost moves with GRN, BOM explosion can price a plate from ingredients that actually arrived. That is how SevaRan keeps food cost forensic instead of aspirational.
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