Bubble Tea Recipe Cost Calculator

Estimate ingredient, packaging, labour, wastage, payment and overhead cost per drink using your own tested pack yields and business numbers. Type in what a pack costs you and how many drinks it actually makes, add or remove ingredients freely, then enter your selling price to see contribution margin.

Approved wholesale accounts pay less than the carton prices used in the example recipes below, which brings the cost per cup down further. See how to order wholesale to apply.

Calculator outputs are estimates based entirely on the values entered. Confirm current product pricing, recipes, wages, payment fees, GST treatment and other costs against your own records. Enter the actual pack cost and your own tested drinks-per-pack yield for each product, not a supplier's stated pack size alone. This is ingredient, packaging and operating cost only; it is not accounting or tax advice.

Why does this calculator ask for "drinks per pack" instead of grams or millilitres?

A pack size on its own does not tell you how many saleable drinks it produces. Preparation loss, topping portions and staff consistency all affect the real yield. Measuring how many drinks one pack actually makes, and dividing the pack cost by that number, gives a more accurate cost per drink than working from a theoretical dose alone.

Why does Sunwide's fruit syrup example change so much between the two presets?

Sunwide sells two fruit syrup lines at different prices: LT and SW, roughly 49% apart for the same 6x2.5kg carton size. A single fixed ingredient rate would hide that difference. Load both fruit tea presets to compare, then edit the pack cost to match whichever line you actually buy.

Does this include wholesale pricing?

Only if you enter it. The example recipes use Sunwide's publicly listed carton prices. Approved wholesale accounts pay less, which lowers the ingredient cost below what the presets show. See how to order wholesale to apply for an account.

What is "allocated overhead" and do I need to fill it in?

Overhead is a share of fixed costs, such as rent, utilities or equipment, spread across the drinks a business expects to sell. It is optional here. Add it only if your business has already worked out that per-drink figure; otherwise leave it at zero and treat the total cost as a direct-cost estimate only.

How is "price for target margin" worked out?

It solves for the selling price that leaves your chosen contribution margin after the payment fee: total direct cost divided by (1 minus the payment fee rate minus the target margin, both as decimals). It updates as you change any cost, the payment fee rate or the target margin.