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Alder Table Bistro: Recipe costing as an OpenDocument spreadsheet

Recipe costing as an OpenDocument spreadsheet for Alder Table Bistro. Three tables. PlateCosts holds 12 recipe lines with the as-purchased quantity and line cost as live ODF formulas; Summary rolls each dish up with SUMIF and computes margin and food-cost percent. The same figures in value form are in plate-costs.csv.

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Specifications

Kit
restaurant-bistro
Industry
food-service
Schema Version
1
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Currency
CAD
Period Start
2026-08-20
Period End
2026-09-02
Tables
3
Cached Values
false
Formula Syntax
OpenFormula (of:=)

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Use recipe costing as an opendocument spreadsheet in the Alder Table Bistro costing and daily operations workflow.
Expected result
Three tables. PlateCosts holds 12 recipe lines with the as-purchased quantity and line cost as live ODF formulas; Summary rolls each dish up with SUMIF and computes margin and food-cost percent. The same figures in value form are in plate-costs.csv.

What is a .ods file?

ODS is the OpenDocument Spreadsheet format, an ISO-standardized spreadsheet stored as a ZIP archive of XML. It is the native spreadsheet format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice Calc, supporting multiple sheets, formulas, and formatting. It is the open-standard counterpart to XLSX.

How to use this file

Use an example ODS to test OpenDocument spreadsheet parsing, formula and multi-sheet handling, and converters between ODS and XLSX or CSV.

How to use this file for testing

“Alder Table Bistro: Recipe costing as an OpenDocument spreadsheet” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Spreadsheet testing, Data import. Multi-sheet workbooks with documented formulas and plain sheets for testing spreadsheet parsers and importers.

Documented properties for this file: ODS · 2,690 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

This template ships filled with realistic sample content and documented fields and formulas. Download it as a starting point, or point a converter/parser at it, format twins (for example DOCX↔PDF) let you diff conversion fidelity.

Code examples

import pandas as pd  # pip install odfpy

df = pd.read_excel("recipe-costing.ods", engine="odf")
print(df.head())

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