The food cost the spreadsheet shows is rarely the real one. Theoretical comes from your costings times what you actually sold; actual, from what you bought and how your stock changed. The gap is waste, portioning, price or worse, and this master shows it dish by dish.
What you get
- Costings for every dish and drink. Ingredient, weight, waste and cost, with today's purchase price.
- Suppliers and purchase prices. What you pay for each product and when it went up.
- Delivery notes and invoices, matched. Your team logs the delivery note from their phone; the master matches it to the invoice.
- Inventory and waste. The day-1 count and what gets thrown away, in euros.
- Actual against theoretical cost. With the sales mix from your till, month by month and dish by dish.
Works with the financial master
The food cost this master calculates is what goes into the P&L of the financial master.
What's not included
Our menu proposal —what to raise, lower or drop— with your numbers is bespoke.
How this Master grows
Your business's Google Sheets and personalised instructions to build your own Brain with Claude Code.
We fill it with your data, build its context on your computer and in Knife's private repository, and send it with its page working.
Send us an email, a text, a voice note or a Slack message and we change it straight away.
Or, without leaving your Brain, use the magic wand: ask for the change on the screen itself, see a preview of what you asked for and, once you approve, Knife carries it out automatically.
Prices per client, VAT included. The deposit is €95 per Master and is deducted from its first deliverable.
Always included
your area on Google Maps. Who ranks above you in your radius, with their rating, reviews and trend; what your competitors' guests praise and complain about; and where you're losing the people searching for you.
It runs on Knife, with your password
Your Brain lives on your Knife page and runs on our machines. You don't have to share your Drive: its context is kept on your computer and in Knife's private repository. If you ever leave, you take your data and we delete it.
How it starts
You pay a €95 deposit and book 30 minutes. We go through it with your numbers and send you your first deliverable. The deposit is deducted.
Questions
Does it replace my costing and inventory software?
For costings, purchasing and inventory, that's the idea: the master does it with your team's app.
What if I don't have recipe costings?
We rebuild them from your supplier invoices, starting with your best sellers.
Does it work for a café?
Yes: coffee, drinks and bakery are costed just like a dish.
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