📊 Food Cost Tracking

Know your food cost before the period ends — not after.

Most restaurants find out their food cost is off when they close the books. OwnerClone tracks it daily — recipe costs updated from live invoice data, portion yield alerts, and Cheffy watching every number so you can act in time to fix it.

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Powered by Cheffy

Your kitchen AI. Cheffy monitors your food cost in real time, flags recipe drift, and tells you exactly which items are pulling your COGS above target.

How it works

Step 1

Forward your invoices

Email invoices to your OwnerClone vault address. AI reads and categorizes every line item automatically — no manual entry.

Step 2

Build your recipe library

Link ingredients to recipes. Cheffy calculates cost per serving, per batch, and per menu item — updated automatically when ingredient prices change.

Step 3

Track yield in real time

Log your actual yields during prep. Cheffy compares against theoretical yield and flags variance so you know which items or shifts are over-consuming.

Step 4

See your food cost every day

Cheffy surfaces your food cost percentage daily — not just at period end. Drill into any item, category, or shift to find the source.

What's included

Recipe costing with cost per serving and per batch
Ingredient price tracking from forwarded invoices
Theoretical vs actual yield tracking
Food cost % by day, week, and period
COGS by category and menu section
Portion size variance alerts by shift
Seasonal ingredient cost change alerts
Menu margin analysis — profit per item

Part of the Kitchen module — one of 8 included in OwnerClone at no extra charge.

How OwnerClone compares

Tools that do this one thing — and nothing else.

MarginEdge
$330/mo

Food cost data only — no website, scheduling, or bookkeeping

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Restoke
Undisclosed

Back-of-house only — no front-of-house, ordering, or books

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Restaurant365
$250–$435/mo

Enterprise pricing — built for chains, not independents

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Food Cost Tracking — included in OwnerClone

One free month. No credit card until 15 days before your trial ends. All 8 modules, 13 AI agents, and your website live on day one.

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