Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
MarginWatch turns supplier invoices into per-dish price alerts
A restaurant food-cost tool that tracks supplier invoice prices and shows how increases affect the cost and food-cost percentage of each linked menu item.
- For
- Independent restaurant owners tracking food costs
- Worth noticing
- Operators review and correct extracted invoice line items before confirmation; alerts can trigger at a configurable price-increase threshold.
Field notes
The workflow starts with PDF or phone-photo invoices; extracted line items do not count until the user checks and confirms them. Confirmed purchases build supplier-item price histories that can be linked to ingredients and recipes, and threshold crossings are described as triggering email and in-app alerts. The homepage also offers browser-based calculators and a two-to-five-invoice comparison report; it says uploaded files and reports are deleted after 30 days or sooner on request.
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