Restaurant cost intelligence
Your team photographs a supplier invoice at the back door. MarginDrift reads it, checks the math, and flags the moment a price creeps — so your food cost stops leaking in the paperwork.
No new hardware · works from the phone already in the kitchen
What is MarginDrift
Cost intelligence for restaurants, built from the invoices you already get.
MarginDrift turns every supplier invoice into clean, costed data — no spreadsheets, no data entry. Snap a photo at delivery and it reads the line items, checks the totals to the penny, tracks each ingredient's price over time, and costs every dish against today's prices.
Then it does the part nobody has time for: it watches. Creeping prices, double charges, missed deliveries, dishes slipping underwater — MarginDrift surfaces them the week they happen, with the specific move that fixes it.
The leak
Prices drift a few cents at a time. Cases get shorted. The same delivery gets charged twice. By the time it hits the P&L, the quarter is gone. MarginDrift catches it at the invoice — the moment it happens.
How it works
Staff photograph the paper as the delivery lands — one tap, no login, no data entry. Every location gets its own upload link.
Line items, units, and pack sizes are extracted and the totals reconciled to the penny. Duplicates and short-ships are flagged, not filed.
One short note: which ingredients climbed, which dishes fell out of margin, and the specific switch or call that wins it back.
What MarginDrift watches
Every number ties back to a real invoice line — so you can trust it, and defend it with your vendor.
Photo in, clean costed lines out — pack sizes and unit prices normalized so you compare apples to apples.
Every ingredient's price is tracked over time. When it jumps beyond the noise, you hear about it that week.
Recipes are costed off live invoice prices, so your food-cost % on every plate is today's number, not last year's.
Sales mix meets cost to sort the stars from the dogs — what to promote, reprice, or cut.
See quoted price against what you actually paid, line by line, and hold every vendor to their number.
Deliveries that skip a beat and invoices billed twice surface on their own — before they cost you.
Who it's for
One kitchen, tight margins, no time for spreadsheets. MarginDrift is the back-office you can't afford to hire — running quietly off the invoices you already get.
Every location on the same rails: one price history, one costed menu, one weekly read across the group — with each store's numbers kept honest and separate.
Early access
We're onboarding a first group of restaurants now. Add your place and we'll reach out to get you set up — no cost during the pilot.
One email when it's your turn · no spam · we never share your details
Thanks — we'll email you when your spot opens. In the meantime, keep those invoices.