Plate Costing
Know Your True Plate Cost.
Down to the Penny.
Most restaurants guess their food costs. You won't.
AI-built recipes
Real-time margins
Invoice cascade alerts
Menu engineering matrix
The Magic Connection
Snap an invoice. Everything downstream updates automatically.
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Invoice Snapped
Sysco receipt scanned
→
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Inventory Updates
Ribeye $12.80 → $14.50
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🥞
Recipes Recalculate
NY Strip cost recalculated
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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📈 Always outdated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?”