Software · Margins
Know what food cost you last week. Every Monday.
Indentri Margins reads your sales, your supplier invoices, and a Sunday count. Then it sends you one short email with the numbers, the reasons, and the one thing worth a look.
No card at sign-up. First month free, then $150 a month per location.Separate from our websites: you don't need an Indentri site to use it. Website or Margins? See the difference →
The money leaves quietly.
Most independent restaurants find out their food cost when the accountant says so. That is weeks late, and too late to fix. Prices creep up on invoices nobody reads twice. Pack sizes shrink. Cases sit in the walk-in.
Margins catches it the same week it happens, in dollars, with the invoice lines to prove it.
Three things in. One email out.
/01
Connect your sales
Clover, Square, and Toast sync on their own. Any other POS can upload a CSV export. No POS at all? Type in your weekly totals.
/02
Send us your invoices
Take a photo, upload a PDF, or forward the email to your restaurant's private inbox. AI reads the line items. Nothing counts until you or your manager confirms it.
/03
Count on Sunday night
Whoever closes gets a link. No login, no app to install. They count what is on the shelf and tap done.
Then, every Monday morning
One email. Last week's sales, food spend, food spend %, how that compares to last week and your four-week average, and one finding worth your attention. One tap opens the full report, no login needed.
The Monday email.
This is the whole thing. A sample, with made-up numbers. Yours is built from your own sales, invoices, and Sunday count.
Good morning. Here is last week, Monday through Sunday close.
Sales
$18,420
up 4% on last week
Food spend
$5,784
14 invoices, all confirmed
Food cost
31.4%
29.8% last week · 30.1% four-week avg
Prime cost
58.9%
with $5,070 labor
One thing worth a look
Boneless chicken thighs are up 12% across the last four invoices.
Your poultry supplier billed $2.89/lb, then $3.09, then $3.24 on the last two. At your recent buying rate of about 880 lb a month, that is roughly $310 a month more for the same chicken.
Food cost went from 29.8% to 31.4% this week. Most of that is the chicken. Sales were up, so the rest is normal movement. Nothing else needs your attention.
One tap opens the full report. No login needed. Reply to this email and a person answers.
What you get.
The Monday email
Sales, food spend, and food spend % for the week that just closed. Prime cost when you enter labor. One insight, the biggest one, with the dollars behind it. A paragraph written in plain words from your own numbers.
Findings that name the dollars
Price creep, smaller pack, bought too much, slow to use up. Each shown as monthly dollars at your recent buying rate, never as a percent. Every finding links to the invoice lines behind it.
Recipes and menu
Enter recipes once. Plate costs update whenever an invoice changes an ingredient price. See menu food cost % against your target.
Variance, framed as questions
What your recipes and sales say you should have used, against what the Sunday count says you really used. In dollars, per ingredient. Written as things to look into, not accusations.
A forecast you can check
Two weeks of sales, day by day, built only from your own past weeks. It refuses to forecast under four weeks of history. AI explains any adjustment. The math stays the number of record.
Reorder and prime cost
Par levels and lead times give reorder suggestions. Weekly labor gives prime cost. Connect Gusto or QuickBooks and the labor numbers come in on their own.
$500
a week, roughly, that Jaipur Cuisine of India in Los Angeles is finding in grocery costs with Margins today
1 afternoon
to set up. Your first Monday email arrives after your first full week.
0
logins for whoever counts on Sunday, and none to open the Monday report
Works with what you already run.
SalesThese sync on their own
- Any other POS, by CSV
- No POS? Type weekly totals
PayrollFor prime cost
- Or enter weekly labor by hand
Payroll connects so Margins can bring in your labor numbers for prime cost. Nobody at Indentri sees employee names or what anyone is paid. It stays secure, and it stays yours.
Clover, Square, Toast, Gusto, and QuickBooks are trademarks of their respective owners, shown here to say what Margins connects to. None of them endorse Indentri.
Built to be trusted.
A human confirms every invoice
Nothing counts until you or your manager says it does.
No false alarms
Price alerts fire only on sustained movement across more than one invoice, and only when real money is at stake.
Your timezone and close hour
A 1:30 AM ticket belongs to Saturday night.
No supplier kickbacks, ever
No referral fees, no rebates. Its only job is your margin.
Plain words
Written for owners whose first language may not be English.
Payroll stays yours
Gusto and QuickBooks connect to bring in your labor numbers for prime cost. Nobody at Indentri sees employee names or what anyone is paid.
What it could be worth.
Put in your numbers, pick the food cost you think you could get to, and see what is left after Margins' bill and the free month.
Free until it proves itself.
Margins · Per location
One plan.
$150 / month, per location
No card at sign-up. Billing starts only when Margins produces your first variance report.
- Then your first month is free
- Add a card, cancel any time in the free month, and you will not be charged
- Every location gets its own Monday email and its own Sunday count
- Running more than one location? Ask us about a multi-location discount
- Cancel anytime
Set up takes an afternoon. Your first Monday email arrives after your first full week. Or load ten weeks of demo data and see every screen working today.
Find out what last week really cost you.
Set up takes an afternoon. Your first Monday email arrives after your first full week. Or load ten weeks of demo data and see every screen working today. Prefer a walkthrough first? Book a demo and we'll show you Jaipur's.
- No card at sign-up
- First month free
- $150 a month per location