Smoothie (16 oz) Cost Calculator
Fruit smoothie blend with banana, berries, yogurt, and juice. Smoothie bar / juice shop food cost. Prefilled with US average ingredient costs. Edit any quantity or price to match what you actually pay, and the math updates as you type.
How much does it cost to make Smoothie (16 oz)?
About $2.31 of ingredients for a 16 oz berry-banana smoothie at foodservice prices, 33.0% of a $7 menu price. Frozen berries and Greek yogurt are $1.60 of it; the banana, juice, and honey make up the rest. The cup, lid, and straw add about 20 cents.
Where the money goes
| Mixed frozen berries | 34.6% · $0.80 | |
|---|---|---|
| Greek yogurt | 34.6% · $0.80 | |
| Apple juice or milk | 15.6% · $0.36 | |
| Banana | 10.8% · $0.25 | |
| Honey | 4.3% · $0.10 |
What 120 of them return at different prices
| Your price | Food cost % | Over ingredients, each | Over ingredients, 120 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5.25 | 44.0% | $2.94 | $352.80 |
| $7.00 US average | 33.0% | $4.69 | $562.80 |
| $8.75 | 26.4% | $6.44 | $772.80 |
Ingredients only. Labor, packaging, fuel, and stall or platform fees come out of these figures.
Four ounces of frozen berries and four of Greek yogurt are 80 cents each, together 69.3% of the $2.31. Six ounces of apple juice or milk add 36 cents, the banana 25 cents, and half an ounce of honey 10 cents. At $7 that is a 33.0% food cost, near the top of the 25-35% range most kitchens aim for. The cup, lid, and straw are extra.
The protein boost looks like an easy upsell, but it is bought at a price that moves and sold at one that does not. A one-ounce scoop of plain whey protein concentrate costs about 65 cents at bulk prices (a little over $10 a pound in early October 2026), close to the 80 cents of berries in the whole cup. Chains charge about $1-2 for a boost, so at $1.50 the add-on runs a 43.3% food cost, higher than the drink it goes in, and pulls the whole order from 33.0% to 34.8%. In July the same powder cost $12.50-13.00 a pound, and the boost ran a 53% food cost. So recost the boosts whenever you recost the base drink; a full scoop needs about $2 to hold 33%.
What fills the rest of the cup is the other lever. Berries and yogurt cost 20 cents an ounce, the juice 6, and ice next to nothing. Trading two ounces of yogurt for ice takes the cup to $1.91, 27.3%, which is how ice-heavy recipes stay cheap, but the customer tastes a thinner drink. Overfilling by eye moves it just as far the other way: two extra ounces of berries make the cup $2.71, 38.7%.