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Marji is restaurant food-cost software. These are the parts you don't have to pay for or sign up for. Start wherever's useful.
Free forever
Get a free QR menu
Photograph your paper menu; get a hosted digital menu, a QR code and printable table tents. About 15 minutes, no card.
Updated weekly
The Restaurant Food Cost Index
What the ten commodities restaurants buy most actually did, from BLS data. Free to cite, CSV included.
18 calculators
Free calculators
Food cost, recipe costing with yield, break-even, prime cost, pour cost, delivery margin. No signup, shareable results.
63 terms
The costing glossary
Every restaurant costing term with its formula and a worked example. The half most glossaries leave out.
60 guides
Guides
Food cost, menu pricing, menu engineering and the P&L — with original math rather than restated definitions.
36 designs
Menu templates
Structurally distinct digital menu designs. Every one free with the QR menu tier.
Nothing to install
Menu health check
Paste your prices and get a structural read on spread, clustering, price endings and anchoring. Presentation only — it makes no claim about your margins.
Six steps
Put your menu on Google
How to get a menu link onto your Google Business Profile, and what to do when the menu field is missing from your listing.
Six shortlists
Best food cost software, by restaurant type
Ranked for trucks, cafés, bars, pizzerias, single sites and groups. A spreadsheet is in every list, and we are not first in four of them.
Eleven formats
Food cost by restaurant format
Planning bands and one plate costed line by line for each format, from a 16-inch pie to a delivery bowl after commission.
No account
See the product
A read-only dashboard on a sample bistro — what Marji looks like once your menu and invoices are in it.
One number a week.
What moved in ingredient prices, what it costs a typical dish, and one thing worth repricing. No pitch.