Know where your menu is losing money.
COGSpoon tracks supplier prices, connects them to your recipes, and shows exactly which menu items are losing margin.
Invoice uploaded
Restaurant Depot — 2 min ago
Affected menu item
Smash Burger
Food cost %
29.4% → 31.1%
Target
30.0%
Recommended action
Raise Smash Burger by $0.75 to restore target margin.
The problem
Your costs change faster than your menu.
Supplier prices change constantly
Every invoice can shift what an ingredient costs — often without you noticing.
Recipe costs become outdated
Spreadsheets and old menus quickly fall behind reality on the kitchen floor.
Margin loss goes unnoticed
A few extra percent on your top sellers can quietly erase weeks of profit.
The solution
COGSpoon watches the numbers for you.
Everything you need to keep menu margins healthy, without new hardware or a POS integration.
Invoice uploads
Store vendor invoices securely in one place.
Automatic price tracking
Build a history of what you paid over time.
Recipe costing
See the true cost of every menu item.
Margin alerts
Know when an item moves above your target cost.
Menu import
Upload your menu instead of typing every item.
Multi-location ready
Track each restaurant separately under one account.
How it works
Four steps from invoice to insight.
- 1
Upload or forward invoices
Drop in PDFs or photos from any supplier.
- 2
Review extracted line items
COGSpoon reads item, pack size, and price — you confirm.
- 3
Match ingredients to recipes
Link each line to the ingredient it stocks in your kitchen.
- 4
See margin changes and recommended actions
Instantly know which menu items moved and what to do about it.
Why it matters
Catch margin loss before it becomes a problem.
Ground beef increased 8.2%
Detected across two invoices in the last 14 days.
Smash Burger food cost rose from 29.4% to 31.1%
Now 1.1 points above your 30% target.
A $0.75 price increase restores target margin
Or trim portion by 0.5 oz to hold current pricing.
Who it's for
Built for independent operators.
Pricing
Simple pricing for independent restaurants.
Join early access and help shape the product.
Free for pilot restaurants during early access.
- One restaurant location
- Menu and recipe costing
- Invoice uploads
- Price history
- Margin alerts
- Weekly cost summary
Early results
Pilot restaurant results coming soon.
We're onboarding a first group of independent restaurants. Real numbers will land here shortly.
Pilot testimonials will appear here once our first restaurants complete a full month on COGSpoon.
Pilot operator
Independent restaurant
Case study coming soon
A detailed look at how a pilot restaurant used COGSpoon to spot margin loss and react in the same week.
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