Maths for Hospitality Work: Bills, Service Charges, Tips and Food Cost Percentages

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About Course

Restaurants, cafés, pubs and hotels run on numbers. This course covers the everyday maths of hospitality work: adding up and splitting bills, calculating service charges and VAT, the law on sharing tips, working out food cost percentages and gross profit, and scaling orders for events – with practical worked examples.

Tutwoo is an independent learning provider. This is a general skills course designed to support everyday and workplace English and maths, with reference to the Department for Education’s Functional Skills subject content. It is not an accredited qualification.

© 2026 Tutwoo UK Limited. This course was created in-house by Tutwoo and is our original work. It is for your own learning only: please do not copy, share, record or resell it.

What Will You Learn?

  • Calculate bills, discounts and service charges accurately
  • Split bills fairly between customers
  • Understand VAT-inclusive pricing and the rules on passing tips to workers
  • Work out food cost percentages, gross profit and selling prices

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Bills, discounts and splitting
  • Service charges, VAT and tips
  • Food cost, gross profit and scaling

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

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