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Food cost tracking

Your food cost, live. Not at month-end.

COGS, plate cost, and variance — calculated from your actual counts, invoices, and sales and updated every time the data changes. No period-end reconciliation scramble.

Real-time COGS

This week's number. Right now.

Beginning inventory + purchases − ending inventory, calculated continuously from your counts and invoices. See your food cost % trend by day, week, or month without waiting for the accountant.

  • Food cost % with week-over-week and month-over-month trend
  • Drill into any number to see the source count or invoice
  • Filter by category, vendor, or location

Plate costs that update themselves

Price a recipe once.

Link ingredients to menu items with quantities and yields. The moment an invoice changes an ingredient cost, every recipe using it re-prices — no manual recalculation.

  • Recipe builder with sub-recipes (mise en place, sauces)
  • Plate cost, gross margin, and suggested menu price per item
  • Yield and waste factors baked into the math

Variance analysis

What you should have used.

Connect your POS and Stockcount compares theoretical usage (based on sales × recipe) against actual usage (based on counts). The gap is your waste, theft, or menu-engineering problem — and it's finally visible.

  • Theoretical vs actual usage per ingredient, per week
  • Flags items with consistent variance (trend tracking)
  • Works with Square today; Toast on the roadmap

Anomaly detection

When something's off.

Stockcount watches for things that shouldn't happen — a 20% price jump on coffee, a sudden variance spike on proteins, a missing count on a high-cost SKU. Daily digest, not noisy real-time alerts.

  • Price change alerts (vendor-scoped, over configurable threshold)
  • Variance spike detection per ingredient
  • Overdue count reminders on high-cost or high-velocity items

Know your numbers every day.

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