How current is the cost of a dish?

As current as your last confirmed invoice. When one moves a price, every locked recipe that uses that product is re-costed.

Does it tell me which dishes to cut?

It tells you how each dish performs: Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle or Dog, from its margin and what sold. Which dish goes is your call.

Outcome

Cost and GP on every dish, current to this week's prices.

Food cost stops being something you find out at month end. Every plate carries its cost and its GP, current to the last invoice.

BeforeFood cost lands at month end, too late to act
With oppiPantryEvery plate carries its cost and GP, current to the last invoice
BeforeA price rise hides on page two of the invoice
With oppiPantryA confirmed price rise re-costs every recipe that uses it
BeforeMenu prices set from memory and last year's menu
With oppiPantryEvery item priced against its GP target while you edit

The price that crept
The price rose. The plate knew that morning.
A supplier lifts a price and you confirm the invoice. Every locked recipe that uses that product is re-costed, and any dish now under its GP target is flagged. You find out the morning the invoice lands.
Targets that fit
The signature dish and the chips, held differently.
Set a GP target for the venue, then tighten it for a menu, a category or one dish. Each plate is measured against the number that suits it, not one figure for the whole kitchen.
Before it prints
See the margin before the menu prints.
Every item on a draft menu shows its GP against target while you work. Lift a price or change a recipe and see what it does to the plate before the new menu reaches the pass.

How current is the cost of a dish?: As current as your last confirmed invoice. When one moves a price, every locked recipe that uses that product is re-costed.
Does it tell me which dishes to cut?: It tells you how each dish performs: Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle or Dog, from its margin and what sold. Which dish goes is your call.

oppiPantry is in early access, on oppiOS.