Your supplier raised prices. Did your menu adjust?
DishMargin is an AI-powered app that scans your invoices, tracks ingredient costs, and tells you exactly which dishes are making — or losing — money.
No spreadsheets. No manual updates. Just real margins in real time.
Stop guessing your food cost.
Dish Margin automates your ingredient tracking so you always know exactly how much profit is in every dish.
Upload your invoice
Snap a photo or upload a file — we automatically extract every ingredient, price, and quantity.
Dish Margin updates your ingredient prices
Every price change is applied to your recipes instantly.
See which dishes lost margin
Know exactly what's making or losing you money.
One price change can kill your margins.
We show you this instantly — so you can fix it before it costs you thousands.
Know what's really making you money.
Don't wait until the end of the month to find out you lost money.
Try it free → →Once your costs are accurate, everything else gets easier.
See which menu items you should fix, raise, or remove.
Automatically classify your menu to see exactly which dishes are driving your profit and which ones are holding you back.
Menu Engineering Matrix
Automatically classify your menu into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, and Dogs based on sales volume and live margins.
MenuIQ™ Optimization
Let AI suggest ingredient swaps and portion adjustments to lift the profitability of underperforming dishes.
Magic Recipe Import
Generate complete recipes, specs, and estimated costs from a photo of a cookbook or a pasted URL.
Track price trends and avoid overpaying suppliers.
Keep a close eye on supplier price volatility to ensure you're getting the best rates on your core ingredients.
Live Volatility Tracking
Watch 30-day price trends across all vendors to spot "price creep" before it hurts.
Trusted by 2,000+ hospitality professionals
See how operators across cafés, bars, and fine dining restaurants use DishMargin to bring clarity to their numbers and confidence to their decisions.
We used to spend entirely too much time tracking fluctuating ingredients and manually updating our menu prices. DishMargin automated all of it. Our margins have completely stabilized.
Having real-time COGS connected directly to our POS sales data is a total lifesaver. We know exactly what's making money and what isn't literally every day.
Aura AI acts like our fractional CFO. It instantly flags when our beef prices spike and suggests exact menu price adjustments before we lose money on the weekend rush.
No more complex Excel spreadsheets. Setting up took less than 30 minutes, and the integration with our accounting software is flawless.
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Everything you need to protect your margins.
- Unlimited recipes
- Unlimited invoice scans
- Full cost history & trend charts
- Priority AI processing
Common questions
DishMargin uses AI to scan your wholesale supplier invoices and extract real ingredient prices. It then calculates the exact cost-per-plate for each recipe based on your actual ingredient quantities and the most recent prices from your invoices. Food cost percentage is updated automatically every time you confirm a new invoice.
DishMargin uses Google Gemini Vision AI to read invoice photos. It extracts supplier name, invoice number, and all line items including quantities, units, and prices. For common wholesale invoice formats the accuracy is very high. You review and confirm all line items before they update your ingredient costs, so you always stay in control.
When you scan a new invoice and confirm the matches, DishMargin automatically updates the cost of affected ingredients and recalculates the margin for every recipe that uses them. If any dish drops below your target profit margin, you receive an alert so you can adjust your menu pricing.
Yes. DishMargin is designed for independent restaurants, food trucks, catering businesses, and ghost kitchens. It works with any wholesale supplier invoice — you just photograph it with your phone. No integrations or special hardware required.
Most full-service restaurants target a food cost percentage between 28% and 35%, meaning food costs should be 28–35% of the menu price. Fine dining often runs lower (25–30%) while fast-casual may run higher (30–38%). DishMargin lets you set a custom target margin per recipe and alerts you when dishes fall below it.
Yes. DishMargin has a free plan that includes up to 3 recipes and 2 invoice scans per month — enough to get started and see whether your most important dishes are profitable. The Pro plan ($29/month) unlocks unlimited recipes and invoice scans.
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