Price a New Menu Item or Service skill for Claude

Price a New Menu Item or Service as a Claude skill. Claude asks for I want to add, Direct cost per unit (ingredients, materials, parts), Labour per unit and 5…

Install it once and Claude runs it for you. When your request matches, Claude loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When Claude uses it

Use when the user wants help with Price a New Menu Item or Service. Related topics: Small Business, Pricing, Finance.

What Claude will ask you for

• I want to add (free text, e.g. "the item or service")
• Direct cost per unit (ingredients, materials, parts) (longer free text)
• Labour per unit (free text, e.g. "minutes of staff time and the hourly rate")
• How many I expect to sell a week (free text, e.g. "honest guess")
• What I charge for the nearest thing I already sell (free text, e.g. "item and price")
• What the two nearest competitors charge for something similar (free text, e.g. "names optional")
• Who this is for (choose one: existing customers, a new kind of customer, both)
• Target margin (choose one: I do not know, the same as my other items, higher than usual because it is premium, lower because it is a loss leader)

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.