Plate Costing
Needs 30 DaysKnow Your True Plate Cost.
Down to the Penny.
Most restaurants guess their food costs. You won't.
Recipe and invoice workflows are live for setup. Margin confidence gets better after 30 days of real invoice scans, recipe edits, and vendor price changes.
The Magic Connection
Snap an invoice. Everything downstream updates automatically.
Invoice Snapped
Sysco receipt scanned
Inventory Updates
Ribeye $12.80 → $14.50
Recipes Recalculate
NY Strip cost recalculated
Margins Update
Alert: margin dropped to 28%
Real example: Ribeye jumped from $12.80 to $14.50/lb
Your NY Strip margin dropped from 32% to 28% — AI flagged it before dinner service.
Try It Yourself
Upload your menu, get AI-suggested recipes, edit ingredients, see your margins.
Upload your menu on the POS demo page, or try our sample.
Spreadsheets vs AI-R
Spreadsheets & Guessing
- 1.Manually enter every ingredient
- 2.Look up vendor prices (monthly?)
- 3.Build formulas for each recipe
- 4.Forget to update when prices change
- 5.Discover margin problem 3 months late
- 6.Repeat for every menu change
⏱ Hours per week
📈 Always outdated
AI-R
- 1.Snap an invoice
- 2.AI updates ingredient costs
- 3.All plate costs recalculate
- 4.Margin alerts fire instantly
Always current. Zero data entry.
⏱ 3 seconds
📈 Real-time
“Hey Maestro, what's my food cost on the NY Strip?”