Manager cards for cost control · Employee cards for consistent builds and portions
Most recipe costing software requires you to log in, build a database, and maintain it yourself. We do it for you — send us your menu and invoices, we return print-ready PDFs.
Platforms like meez, MarketMan, and WISK are powerful tools — for operators with a dedicated manager to run them. If you're an independent operator without a corporate back office, you need a different answer.
Most recipe costing platforms charge $150–$400/month and require you to manually enter every recipe, sync every invoice, and maintain your own database. If protein prices change, you update it. If you hire a new chef, you retrain them on the system. The software is powerful — but the burden is on you. For a c-store deli operator or an independent restaurant without a dedicated ops manager, it's one more thing to maintain that doesn't get maintained.
You send. We build. You review. That's the whole loop — and the only step that requires you is the last one.
Send us your menu items and prices, plus a few recent invoices from your food supplier — Sysco, US Foods, or any DSD vendor. Tell us your blended labor rate. That's all we need to get started.
AI extracts costs from your invoice, costs every ingredient at actual invoice prices, calculates verified food cost percentages, writes step-by-step build instructions, and flags allergens and margin concerns.
Two PDF sets land in your inbox. Employee cards go in the kitchen. Manager cards go in the office. Send us finished plate photos and we'll add them — along with any chef-specific notes — directly to your cards.
When protein prices spike, resubmit. Update Plan customers get automatic cost-change alerts and priority re-runs whenever any ingredient shifts more than 10%.
Employee cards never show cost data. Manager cards show everything — costed from your actual invoices, not generic estimates.
No platform to log into. No ongoing fees. The PDFs are yours — print them, laminate them, email them to your manager.
Print. Laminate. Post.
Confidential. Management only.
* Ingredients or packaging not identified in your submitted invoices may use web-sourced public pricing data to complete your cards. Any estimated items will be clearly flagged for your review.
If you don't have a corporate office doing this for you, and you don't want to pay $300/month to learn software — this is for you.
Hot food programs in convenience stores and delis with rotating menus and DSD vendor invoices.
High-volume operations where portion control and build consistency directly protect margin.
Full-service restaurants that don't have a corporate office doing their costing for them.
High-turnover environments where new staff need clear, fast-reference cards from day one.
Multi-concept operations that need costed recipe cards for each program without a shared back office.
"We had no idea our Veggie Burger was running 38% food cost — the card said 29%. We were flying blind. These cards paid for themselves in the first week."
Compare to $150–$400/month for software you have to operate yourself. Our cards are yours to keep — forever.
Compare to meez ($149–$399/mo), MarketMan ($239+/mo), WISK ($300+/mo) — all require you to do the work. We do it for you.
A 5% food cost error on a $10,000/week food program is $500/week in invisible losses. Most operators find at least one mistake in the first card set.
Submit Your Menu TodayFill out the form below. We confirm receipt within 2 hours and deliver your cards within 24 hours. No account needed.
Click to upload menu (PDF, JPG, PNG)
Sysco, US Foods, DSD, or any vendor invoice — a few recent ones is ideal (PDF, Excel, JPG)
Upload photos of your finished dishes and we'll include them on your employee cards
Confirmation within 2 hours. Cards delivered within 24hr. No account needed. Your invoice stays private.