Cedar Street Tacos: Recipe costing workbook with live formulas
Recipe costing workbook with live formulas for Cedar Street Tacos. Four sheets. Ingredients converts 6 purchase packs to a cost per recipe unit; PlateCosts holds 18 recipe lines; Summary uses SUMIF to roll each dish up and computes margin and food-cost percent; Notes records the provenance. Exactly 91 cells are live formulas with no cached value, so a values-only reader sees them empty and a recalculating reader reproduces plate-costs.csv exactly.

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Specifications
- Kit
- restaurant-food-truck
- 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
- Sheets
- 4
- Charts
- 0
- Recipe Lines
- 18
- Formula Cells
- 91
- Cached Values
- false
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Use recipe costing workbook with live formulas in the Cedar Street Tacos costing and daily operations workflow.
- Expected result
- Four sheets. Ingredients converts 6 purchase packs to a cost per recipe unit; PlateCosts holds 18 recipe lines; Summary uses SUMIF to roll each dish up and computes margin and food-cost percent; Notes records the provenance. Exactly 91 cells are live formulas with no cached value, so a values-only reader sees them empty and a recalculating reader reproduces plate-costs.csv exactly.
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Code examples
from openpyxl import load_workbook
wb = load_workbook("recipe-costing.xlsx")
ws = wb.active
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