Press kit
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Facts
- Company
- BlazeApps
- Product
- Marji — restaurant food cost and margin software
- Founded
- 2026
- Address
- 30 N Gould St, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
- Website
- https://marji.co
- Press contact
- press@marji.co
- Category
- Restaurant Management Software · Food Service Management Software · Food Cost Management Software · Recipe Costing Software
- Built for
- Independent restaurants, 1–5 locations, United States
- Pricing
- QR Menu free forever · Single $59/location/month · Operator $149/location/month, invite-only; Square unavailable · 14-day trial, no card required
- Product facts reviewed
- September 12, 2026; customer and revenue figures are not published here
Boilerplate
Three lengths. Use whichever fits; no need to ask.
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Restaurant food cost software that connects supplier prices to dish costs.
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Track supplier price changes with Marji's restaurant food cost software. Update recipe costs from reviewed invoices and see which dishes need attention.
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Marji is restaurant food cost software for independent restaurants, cafés and bakeries running one to five locations. Supplier invoice scanning connects ingredient price changes to updated recipe costs, helping operators see which dishes need a cost review. Start with one dish: check ingredient matches, quantities, units, yields and actual costs, then use new invoices to keep its cost current. A menu photo supplies dish names and selling prices; AI recipe drafts are estimates until reviewed. Operators review dish margins and price recommendations, decide what to adjust and update their register manually. No POS connection is required. The hosted QR menu stays free, while ongoing AI scanning and the margin engine require trial or paid access.
Data you can cite
We publish a Restaurant Food Cost Index — a fixed-weight basket of ten commodity categories built on US Bureau of Labor Statistics average-price data. Marji selects the weights; they are not a survey of restaurant purchasing. The refresh checks for new observations weekly, while BLS publishes these series monthly. This is market context, not supplier quotes.
It is published under CC BY 4.0. Take the numbers, the charts, or the whole history — no permission needed, no embargo, no form. The methodology documents every series identifier, the weights, the base period and the revision policy, and states plainly what the index does not measure.
Consultants, trade associations and culinary programmes reusing this on a recurring basis should start at our partners page, which covers the free tools and educational access that go with it.
What Marji does — and doesn't
Does
- — Extracts dish names and selling prices from a menu photo
- — Connects reviewed recipe costs to supplier invoice changes
- — Recommends prices using costs, targets and stated assumptions
- — Keeps the operator in control of every price change
- — Publishes a free QR menu with 36 designs
- — Gives away 18 calculators and a 63-term glossary
Doesn't
- — Bill pay or AP automation
- — Accounting sync (QuickBooks and similar)
- — Inventory counting workflows
- — Available POS connections or sales imports; Square write-back is built but unavailable
- — Change any price without explicit owner approval
Assets & claims
Logo: marji-logo.webp. Product screenshots on request — we'd rather send you a current one than have you pull a stale asset off a page.
A note on claims: Marji is early and we don't publish customer counts, revenue, or aggregate savings figures, because we don't yet have numbers we could stand behind. If you need a figure for a story, ask and we'll tell you what we actually know — including when the answer is “not yet.” Our editorial policy covers how we source everything else we publish, and what Marji is and who builds it covers the company background a story usually needs.
Working on a restaurant-cost story?
We track ten commodity categories weekly and can usually answer “what has X actually done this year” with a chart the same day. press@marji.co