MarginMenu

MarginMenu is a mobile + web app that helps independent restaurants keep menu prices and portions profitable as ingredient costs change. Owners snap photos of invoices or connect their POS export, and the app tracks ingredient price trends, recipe costs, and real-time gross margin by item. It flags “silent losers” (popular dishes that are now unprofitable), suggests price/portion adjustments, and generates a simple action list for the week. This is not a generic inventory system—those are expensive, complex, and painful to maintain. The MVP focuses on the 20% of data that drives 80% of margin decisions: top-selling items, core ingredients, and invoice deltas. It also produces a one-page “menu engineering” report you can share with managers. The reality: restaurants fail on cash flow and margins, not vibes; this app targets that directly.