MENU MARGIN CONTROL FOR RESTAURANTS
Your supplier raised prices on Tuesday. Your menu knows on Tuesday.
LogicChef JS reads every invoice, recalculates every recipe cost, and tells you the exact price that protects the margin you set. No waiting for month-end. No spreadsheets.
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Built by a chef with 30+ years in operations
INVOICE PROCESSED · SYSCO · #48213
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MARGIN ALERT
"Buffalo Wings (8 ct)" dropped to 64% gross margin. Your target is 70%.
Suggested price: $14.00 → $16.75
INVOICES
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RECIPE COSTING
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MENU PRICING
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PREP & WASTE
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LABOR vs SALES
01 — THE PROBLEM
A restaurant's entire margin fits inside one pricing mistake.
When three cents of every dollar is what's left at month-end, one ingredient that jumps 18% and nobody adjusts for eats the week's profit.
2.8%
Median pre-tax income at full-service restaurants.
NRA, 2024 data
55–65%
Recommended prime cost (food + labor) as a share of sales.
NRA State of the Industry 2026
+35%
Food costs above pre-pandemic levels.
NRA State of the Industry 2026
1 in 3
Operators reported being unprofitable in the first half of 2026.
NRA operator survey, 2026
Where every sales dollar goes
Typical full-service restaurant · NRA 2026 benchmarks
PRIME COST — WHERE LOGICCHEF WORKS · 67¢
What's left for the owner is the thin yellow strip: 3¢. Moving food cost by one single point raises that profit by a third.
Net profit 3¢
02 — THE COST OF WAITING
One price hike nobody caught. One full year.
Chicken wings go up $0.45/lb. A kitchen that buys 400 lb a week absorbs $180 every week the menu price stays the same. Nobody notices it on a single invoice. It shows up at year-end as $9,360 that never made it to the bottom line.
Increase
+$0.45/lb
Weekly leak
$180
Per year
$9,360
Worked example: 400 lb/week volume, price held for 52 weeks. One ingredient only.
Cumulative margin lost, unadjusted
USD
$2,340
$4,680
$7,020
$9,360
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
With LogicChef, the alert fires the day that invoice is photographed, and the price decision happens in week one, not in Q4.
03 — HOW IT WORKS
A report tells you what last month cost. LogicChef tells you what to charge today.
Snap the invoice
From a phone, at the receiving door.
Line-by-line read
Every item, quantity and unit price.
Price audit
Checked against your history with that vendor.
Recipe cost
Every dish using that item is recalculated.
Recommended price
Hits your target margin. One tap to apply.
04 — INSIDE THE SYSTEM
Monday morning, one screen: what moved and what to do about it.
The owner, the chef and the GM look at the same numbers, in the same place, before service starts.
05 — BEFORE & AFTER
You didn't open a restaurant to shuffle paperwork.
06 — MARGIN CALCULATOR
07 — THE MARKET, WITH PUBLIC PRICES
What it costs to control margin, per location, per month.
Each tool solves a different problem first. Here are entry prices and focus, so you can compare with the full picture.
meez · Premium
$179
LogicChef JS · Core
$199
MarketMan · Operator
$239
MarginEdge
$350–400
Restaurant365 · Essential
$469+
USD per location per month, published entry price. MarginEdge: $350 plus the $50 API fee Toast charges its users (light segment). Restaurant365: Essential plan, billed quarterly. Verified September 2026.
LogicChef JS
MarginEdge
MarketMan
Restaurant365
meez
SOLVES FIRST
Per-dish margin: from invoice to menu price
Invoices, bill pay and daily P&L
Inventory and purchasing
Full accounting and back office
Standardized recipes and costing
INVOICE CAPTURE
Photo, AI reading
Photo, email or EDI; human review in 24–48 h
Scanning and integrations
Accounts payable module
Integrations or scanning
ENTRY / LOCATION / MO
$199
$350
$239
$469+
$19–199
MULTI-LOCATION
Command plan ($249)
Yes, per location
Yes, per location
Yes, built for groups
Enterprise, custom price
BEST FOR
Independents and small groups who want to act on price
High invoice-volume operators
Kitchens with complex purchasing
Groups with 5+ locations
Chefs documenting recipes
08 — SPECIFICATIONS
The spec sheet. No adjectives.
What the system takes in, what it does, and what it gives back. Items in brackets are being finalized.
09 — WHAT WE DON'T DO
We don't invent forecasts.
Sales and prep projections switch on only when your restaurant has enough real history and the model passes validation. Until then, LogicChef works with what is already fact: what you paid, what you sold, and what you threw away.
Supplier prices
FROM THE FIRST INVOICE
Recipe cost and margin
ONCE RECIPES ARE LOADED
Waste in dollars
AS DISCARDS ARE LOGGED
Sales and prep forecasting
WITH VALIDATED HISTORY
10 — FOUNDING PARTNERS
Become one of our first three case studies.
We are opening three founding spots for restaurants that want to measure their margin with LogicChef JS. Your numbers, before and after, become the proof the next owner reads here.
01
Food cost, before and after
We record your food cost on day one and again at 30 and 60 days, using your own invoices and sales.
MEASURED
30–60 days
02
Supplier increases caught
Every price change from your vendors is flagged and totaled in dollars during your first month.
MEASURED
Month one
03
Hours of manual entry removed
We track the time your team stops spending typing invoices and updating recipe costs by hand.
MEASURED
Per week
3 founding spots open
Onboarding directly with the founder. In return, you agree to share your results.
11 — PRICING
Three levels. Published prices.
Billed monthly through Stripe. No long-term contract: cancel anytime from your billing portal.
Core
$199
/mo
The essential operating workspace for a single restaurant or venue.
1 location
All modules · Team access
Choose CoreAll modules · Team access
Command
MULTI-LOCATION
$249
/mo
Advanced operating control for teams that need broader management and multi-venue capability.
Multiple locations
Everything in Core · Company rollup · General Manager role
Choose CommandEverything in Core · Company rollup · General Manager role
Enterprise
from
$399
/mo
Organization-level deployment for restaurant groups, catering companies and complex venue structures.
Groups and catering
Everything in Command · Enterprise structures for groups and catering
Talk to salesEverything in Command · Enterprise structures for groups and catering
12 — BUILT FROM THE KITCHEN
"I spent more than 30 years watching margin slip away between the receiving door and the pass. LogicChef is the tool I wish I'd had in every kitchen I ran."
Javi Sánchez · Founder, chef and fine-dining operator
13 — FAQ
Questions from owners and chefs
When do I start seeing something useful?
The first invoice you upload starts your price history by vendor. Once your recipes are loaded, every increase translates into impact per dish.
Do I have to change my POS?
No. Today you import sales from your POS export (Excel or CSV) or enter daily totals by item, and nothing on your POS changes. Direct POS connections are being enabled one by one.
Does the system change my prices on its own?
No. LogicChef recommends the price and shows you why. You decide whether to apply it to one dish or the whole menu.
I have more than one location. Which plan fits?
Command is built for multiple locations. Groups with catering or more complex structures belong on Enterprise.
Is it available in Spanish?
Yes for support and this website. The app interface is being translated to Spanish now.
20-MINUTE MARGIN AUDIT
Bring three invoices from this week.
In 20 minutes we'll show you which items went up and which dishes lost margin. With your numbers, not a generic demo.
Menu margin control for restaurants, built from the kitchen.
A JS Digital Hub product.
Industry figures: National Restaurant Association, State of the Industry 2026. Competitor pricing reflects publicly listed rates as of September 2026 and may change. Product screens are representative. Calculator results are estimates based on the values you enter and do not guarantee specific outcomes.
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