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Very simple rule, any change to a recipe should be a new recipe. Every time you tweak a recipe you are changing the ingredients in there. This doesn’t take too long before your first version on one menu is a completely different dish as it has evolved. As the list of ingredients moves about, so does your costs. You can very easily end up trying to hold this recipe within a price without seeing the creep of cost.

Keep your old recipe as you may need to go back to it. This is a further benefit as you know somewhere in time when you had the optimal recipe developed and now you can go revisit if needed. This also allows you to record and restore any seasonal variations of a recipe to your latest menu.

By keeping separate recipes the overall objective is to be able to build a cost, which then can help you price the menu. Any changes in ingredient cost over time can be identified only if you are keeping the recipe clean.