Know What Every
Menu Item Really Makes
COGSpoon turns supplier invoices into live ingredient costs, menu-item margins, and price-change alerts — so restaurants can protect profits without spreadsheets.
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- Set up in an afternoon
- Built for independents
Avg food cost
29.4%
Target 30%
Gross margin
70.6%
+1.8 pts MoM
Items over target
6
Review pricing
Menu-item margins
Live from invoicesSmash Cheeseburger
$16.0071.6%
+2.1%
Truffle Fries
$9.0077.1%
-1.4%
Grilled Salmon
$28.0061.4%
+4.8%
House Old Fashioned
$14.0080.8%
-0.6%
Price change alerts
- +11.4%
Ground beef 80/20
$3.85 → $4.29 / lb
- +6.2%
Butter, unsalted
$4.02 → $4.27 / lb
- -3.1%
Romaine hearts
$2.55 → $2.47 / ea
Invoices this week
14
12 auto-matched · 2 waiting on review
Trusted by local operators
Proudly supporting independent restaurants, bars, and neighborhood food spots using COGSpoon to stay on top of costs, margins, and price changes.
Real operators. Real invoices. Real menu-margin visibility.
From neighborhood taverns to local burger spots, COGSpoon is being used to help operators understand ingredient costs and protect profitability.
Margin doesn't vanish overnight. It erodes.
Independent restaurants run on 3–5% net margin. A few unnoticed vendor increases are the difference between a good year and a painful one.
Costs move every week
Vendors quietly raise prices. Your menu price stays the same, and margin leaks out one case at a time.
Invoices pile up
PDFs in email, paper in a binder, nothing reconciled. By the time anyone looks, the quarter is already gone.
Pricing is guesswork
Menu prices get set on gut feel and last year's spreadsheet — not on what the plate actually costs today.
From invoice to margin in three steps
No integrations to wrangle, no consultant, no rebuilding your menu in a spreadsheet.
Upload your invoices
Drop in a supplier invoice PDF. COGSpoon reads vendor, SKUs, pack sizes, and line prices for you. Invoice forwarding by email is coming soon.
Match products to ingredients
Each line is matched to an ingredient once. After that, every future invoice from that vendor matches itself automatically.
See costs and margins instantly
Recipes recost the moment prices land, so every menu item shows true cost, contribution dollars, and margin in real time.
Everything you need to defend your margin
One place for supplier costs, recipes, and the numbers you actually make decisions on.
Invoice Uploads
Upload supplier invoice PDFs — read line by line and filed against the right vendor. Emailed invoice forwarding is coming soon.
Price Change Alerts
Get flagged the moment a vendor raises a price, with the exact dollar and percentage change.
Recipe Costing
Build recipes from real purchase units. Costs update themselves as invoices come in.
Menu Margins
Contribution dollars, food-cost %, and gross margin % on every item, against your category targets.
Price History
Track any ingredient over time — highs, lows, month-over-month and year-over-year movement.
Weekly Recaps
A Monday-morning email with what moved, what's over target, and what needs a pricing decision.
Built for operators who count every point of margin
COGSpoon isn't an enterprise inventory suite. It's the shortest path from a stack of supplier invoices to a confident pricing decision.
Live
Costs, not last quarter's
0
Spreadsheets to maintain
Know true menu profitability
Every plate shows what it costs and what it contributes — so you know which items carry the menu and which quietly drain it.
Catch vendor price increases
Compare each line against the last approved purchase from the same vendor and SKU. Nothing slips through unnoticed.
Eliminate spreadsheet work
No more rebuilding cost sheets every quarter. Invoices flow in, recipes recost themselves, the math stays current.
Make smarter pricing decisions
Set category targets, see what's over, and change prices with numbers behind you instead of a hunch.
Stop guessing.
Start protecting your margins.
Bring in your next invoice and see what your menu really makes — this week, not next quarter.