Topic · 3 guides
Operations & inventory
Counts, par levels, waste, yield tests — the weekly rituals that make the numbers true.
Food Costing Software vs. a Spreadsheet: An Honest Comparison
When a spreadsheet is genuinely the right tool for restaurant recipe costing, when it stops being one, and the specific number that marks the switch.
· 3 min read
Food Costing With Square: What Actually Works
How to run recipe costing and margin tracking alongside Square — what Square gives you natively, what it doesn't, and how to get costed dishes without retyping your catalog.
· 3 min read
The Data-Entry Tax in Restaurant Software
Most restaurant costing tools fail not on features but on setup burden and maintenance. What the data-entry tax is, why it's fatal, and what to ask a vendor before you buy.
· 4 min read