A plate cost that's still true this week
Recipes cost from recorded purchase prices, with yields and sub-recipes applied. When a vendor price is updated, affected plates re-cost and the margin change is flagged.
- Yields and waste factors per ingredient
- Sub-recipes and batch prep costed once, used everywhere
- Menu engineering and price scenarios on real sales mix
From ingredient to menu decision
Recipe costing
- Cost from recorded purchase prices
- Yield and trim factors
- Allergen and prep notes
- Recipe books and print cards
Sub-recipes & batches
- Nested sub-recipes
- Batch yields and portioning
- Production cost roll-up
- Reuse across locations
Menu engineering
- Stars, plowhorses, puzzles, dogs
- Contribution margin by item
- Sales mix from POS
- Trend by period and location
Price optimizer
- Target food-cost scenarios
- Price change impact modelling
- Competitive price anchors
- Rollout by location
Cost once, stay current forever
- 01
Build the recipe
Ingredients, quantities, yields and sub-recipes — entered with your chefs during implementation.
- 02
Map imported sales
Imported menu-item sales map to recipes to calculate theoretical usage without a manual tally.
- 03
Watch margin, not just cost
Price moves flow through. Margin flags the plates whose contribution changed and what price holds it.
Menu changes with a number behind them
Instead of a quarterly across-the-board price increase, you change the six items that actually moved — and you can show why.
- Know which items lost margin and by how much
- See the specific ingredient that caused it
- Model a price or spec change before committing
- Compare plate cost across locations and brands
- Theoretical usage for variance built from real recipes
- Portion control problems become visible, not suspected
- Recipe books available to kitchen teams on mobile
- Version history on every recipe change
See your true food cost in a 30-minute walkthrough
We'll use your locations, your vendors and your menu — not a canned demo dataset.
Tailored to your group's structure
Configured with you, not handed over
SmartOPS Margin is part of the SmartOPS OS suite.