Know when supplier prices rise, and what it costs each dish

Supplier prices change from one delivery to the next, and a rise is easy to miss until the month closes. MarginWatch reads your supplier invoices, tracks what you pay for each ingredient, and tells you when a price goes up and how much that takes off each menu item, in dollars per plate.

Check two invoices freeSee an example report
Price up, Sysco Sep 11, 2026

Chicken breast, boneless

+9.8%$2.24 to $2.46 per lb
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From supplier invoice to Price Alert

  1. A crumpled supplier invoice on a steel prep counter being photographed with a phone, beside a case of romaine

    Upload and check your Invoices

    Upload a PDF or a phone photo of each supplier Invoice, from a broadline supplier or a local butcher. We read every Line Item: what was bought, how much and the Unit Price. You check the lines and fix anything we misread before you confirm the Invoice; only confirmed Invoices count.

  2. A boneless chicken breast being weighed on a kitchen scale, with portioned ingredients in small steel bowls

    Link Supplier Items and build Menu Items

    Each Supplier Item keeps a price history from your confirmed Invoices: what you paid, and when, every time you bought it. Link each Supplier Item to an Ingredient once, then build your Menu Items from Ingredients and quantities. Plate Cost and Food Cost % come from the prices you actually pay and move with each confirmed Invoice.

  3. A plated chicken parm with spaghetti under the heat lamps on the pass

    Get Price Alerts with the Margin Hit

    When a Supplier Item costs at least 3% more than the last time you bought it (you set the threshold), you get a Price Alert by email and in the app, with the Margin Hit on every Menu Item that uses it: dollars per plate and Food Cost % before and after.

Price and margin, nothing else

MarginWatch is restaurant food cost tracking software with one job: it watches what your Suppliers charge and shows what each rise costs your Menu Items. Supplier price tracking, recipe costing and Margin Hits, for owners who want that answer without taking on a whole back office system.

There is no inventory, ordering, accounting or POS to set up, and nothing to integrate. Sign up, upload your Invoices and confirm them, and from then on each new Invoice that raises a price by at least your threshold brings a Price Alert.

Your data, plainly

  • You check every Line Item we read before you confirm an Invoice. Nothing counts until you do.
  • Free Price Change Reports: the Invoice files you upload and the report are deleted after 30 days, or sooner with Delete now on the report.
  • The calculators run in your browser, and what you type in them stays there.
  • Your Account's Invoices, prices and Menu Items are shown only after you sign in, and only to you.

Read exactly what we keep and who processes it in our privacy page.

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Food cost % calculator

Get the food cost % of a dish from its plate cost and sale price, or a sale price from a target food cost %.

In MarginWatch, each Menu Item's Food Cost % follows your latest Invoice prices once its Ingredients are linked to Supplier Items.

Recipe cost calculator

Add up what each ingredient costs you to get the plate cost of a menu item.

Sign up and the recipes you saved come with you as Menu Items.

Supplier price change report

Upload two to five invoices from the same supplier and see which items went up and by how much, largest percent increase first.

Sign up and the Invoices from your report join your Account for review.

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