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How do I work back from individual servings through tray yield and the available garnish limit?

The tray is prepared in full. Garnish is required only for the customer portions.

Open Batch dessert assembly

Try the worked example

These are the example inputs from Batch dessert assembly. Replace them in the tool to run your own case.

Customer portions (portions)Portions per tray (portions)Edible garnishes available (pieces)Garnishes per portion (pieces)
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Example result
Whole trays to prepare · 8 trays

Who uses this?

Pastry production lead. The free online tool runs the calculation in your browser. To edit the files and use the tools offline in one business, see the €49 offline edition.

Where the idea came from

An independent restaurant can handle repeat orders through a direct customer handoff. This independent application adapts that idea to work back from individual servings through tray yield and the available garnish limit.

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