Know Your True Food Cost — Before It Eats Your Margins
Upload your vendor invoices and get instant visibility into spending, pricing trends, and recipe costs — powered by AI. No spreadsheets. No manual entry.
Avg. Savings
12%
Setup Time
15 min
The Food Cost Blind Spot
Most restaurant operators are making pricing decisions with incomplete data. Sound familiar?
Manual Data Entry
You're spending hours copying numbers from invoices into spreadsheets. Every week.
Price Creep
Vendors raise prices quietly. By the time you notice, you've been overpaying for months.
Recipe Cost Guessing
Your menu prices are based on estimates, not real numbers. You don't know which dishes are losing money.
Vendor Lock-In
You're loyal to your rep, but you have no idea if another supplier has better pricing on the items you buy most.
From Invoice to Insight in Minutes
PlateCost uses AI to extract, organize, and analyze your vendor invoices automatically — so you can focus on running your restaurant.
AI-Powered Invoice Extraction
Upload a PDF and we'll extract every line item — vendor, product, quantity, price. In under 60 seconds.
Real-Time Recipe Costing
Build recipes once. Costs update automatically as vendor prices change. Know your food cost % for every menu item.
Multi-Vendor Price Comparison
Upload order guides from your vendors and instantly see who has the best price on every product you buy.
Why Restaurant Owners Choose PlateCost
Stop guessing your food costs. Start making data-driven decisions that protect your margins.
Cut Food Costs 10-15%
Compare prices across all your vendors. Find savings you didn't know existed.
- Side-by-side vendor comparison
- Best-price-per-item identification
- Annual savings projections
Real-Time Menu Profitability
Know exactly which menu items make money and which ones don't.
- Automatic food cost % calculation
- Live updates when prices change
- Flag items above your target margin
Eliminate Manual Work
Stop typing invoice data into spreadsheets. Let AI do it in seconds.
- PDF upload and extraction
- Automatic item matching
- One-click approval workflow
Track Inventory & Waste
Know what you have, what you need, and what you're throwing away.
- Par level management
- Waste tracking by category
- AI-generated order suggestions
Three Steps to Food Cost Clarity
No complex onboarding. No POS integration. Just upload and go.
Upload Your Invoices
Snap a photo or upload a PDF. Our AI extracts every line item automatically.
See Your True Costs
Dashboard shows spending trends, price changes, and recipe costs — updated in real time.
Save Money Every Month
Compare vendors, optimize recipes, and catch price increases before they hit your bottom line.
Spreadsheets vs. PlateCost
Spreadsheets
- Hours of manual entry
- Outdated by next invoice
- No vendor comparison
- Static recipe costs
- Error-prone
PlateCost
- 60-second AI extraction
- Always current
- Side-by-side pricing
- Live recipe costing
- AI-verified accuracy
Built for Busy Restaurant Operators
We know you don't have time for complex software. PlateCost is built to work the way you work.
No POS Required
Works with invoices you already have. No integrations to set up.
Any Vendor, Any Format
US Foods, Sysco, Gordon, Ben E. Keith, local suppliers — we handle them all.
Multi-Location Ready
Manage multiple restaurants from one dashboard. Per-location costs and inventory.
Your Data Is Yours
Bank-level encryption. Your data is never shared with vendors or competitors.
Ready to Stop Guessing Your Food Costs?
See how PlateCost gives restaurant owners real-time visibility into every dollar they spend on food.