Every kitchen has a rail.
What MARGE looks at in each kind of food business: recipe costs, menu prices, supplier increases, portions, refunds, waste and purchasing patterns.
Restaurants
Recipe costs, menu prices, supplier increases and portions.
A dish can stay popular while its margin slips. MARGE follows each recipe’s cost as supplier prices move, sets it against the menu price and your food-cost target, and flags the dishes worth a look.
What MARGE looks at
- Recipe cost drift on signature dishes
- Menu prices behind your food-cost target
- Supplier increases on key ingredients
- Refund and discount patterns by day
Cafés & coffee shops
Milk and beans per cup, waste at close, supplier prices.
Small amounts, many times a day. MARGE compares what recipes and drinks sold should use with what purchases and counts show, and tracks the cost per cup as supplier prices change.
What MARGE looks at
- Milk and coffee use against recipes
- Cost per drink as prices move
- End-of-day waste where recorded
- Pastry and food lines that underperform
Bakeries & pastry shops
Butter, flour and chocolate prices, product costs, losses.
Ingredient prices move faster than price labels. MARGE follows butter, flour and chocolate on your invoices, recalculates product costs and shows where a price review may be due.
What MARGE looks at
- Ingredient increases on your own invoices
- Product costs against your target
- Unsold or wasted production where recorded
- Orders that no longer match production
Fast food
Portion consistency, high-volume margins, purchasing.
At high volume, a few grams per portion add up quickly. MARGE compares consumption with recipes and sales, and ranks issues by what they may cost each month.
What MARGE looks at
- Portion drift on best sellers
- Margins on high-volume items
- Purchasing that runs ahead of use
- Refunds worth a look
Other food service
If you buy ingredients and sell what you make, MARGE can read it.
Catering, canteens, dark kitchens, juice bars: if your business has sales, purchases and recipes, MARGE can connect them. Our team checks fit with you during onboarding.
What MARGE looks at
- Recipe and product costs
- Supplier price changes
- Consumption against recipes
- Margins by item
MARGE connects what you sold, what you bought, what your recipes should have used and what is really on the shelf, then explains what it finds and what you could do about it.
First month free.
Every eligible food-service business can request its first month free. Send a short request; our team reviews it, contacts you and guides your onboarding with your own data.
MARGE onboards a limited number of businesses at a time, so each one gets a guided start.