FoodCostGhost: Restaurant Menu Profitability Tracker
Real-time menu item profitability analyzer that tracks ingredient costs and auto-flags items destroying margins for independent restaurants.
The Problem
Independent restaurant owners manually track food costs across dozens of menu items, often discovering margin problems weeks late when invoices pile up. They have no way to see which dishes are actually profitable after accounting for waste, portion drift, and ingredient price fluctuations—leading to systematically underpriced items that hemorrhage money.
Target Audience
Independent restaurant owners and head chefs (1-50 locations) who don't use enterprise POS systems like Toast or MarginEdge, typically doing $500K-$5M annual revenue.
Why Now?
Ingredient inflation (2023-2024) has made restaurants desperate to understand true costs, and AI-powered form parsing makes capturing recipes/invoices much faster than before.
What's Missing
Existing solutions are priced for chains or require POS integration that indie restaurants don't have; there's no lightweight 'just tell me which dishes are killing me' tool.
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