We understand the challenges you face: ingredient prices keep changing, spreadsheets need updating manually and pricing your menu properly is impossible.
It’s hard to know what each dish costs you, let alone what profit – if any – you’re making.
Until now, that is. Thanks to Smart Food Cost: a QSR Suite solution uniquely designed for UK fast food outlets and restaurants.
Want to increase profits without increasing prices? And identify which menu dishes are stars and which are dogs?
Smart Food Cost provides live ingredient price updates, tracks waste percentages and determines cost per portion. You’ll know exactly which menu dishes to promote, reprice or remove.
Smart Food Cost makes data your secret ingredient.

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Smart Food Cost ensures consistent costing, whether for one outlet or a nationwide restaurant chain:
• Keep track of stock levels real-time
• Manage suppliers and pricing
• Target profit margins
• Receive alerts when costs spike
Smart Food Cost gives you accurate, up-to-date data to help you make the right decisions:
• Easily deal with multiple suppliers
• Flexibility to develop new recipes and change menus seasonally
• Streamline kitchen operations
• Theft/misuse visibility
Forget Excel frustrations and admin nightmares. Smart Food Cost can seamlessly sync with POS systems, accounts tools, supplier invoicing and purchasing systems.
Our UK-based experts will set up the whole system for you, customising it to work the way you do. Smart Food Cost is also highly flexible to grow as your business grows.
We’ll train your staff and be on hand to help whenever you need us.

At just £175 + VAT per outlet/restaurant per month, Smart Food Cost puts you in control of your menu costings without compromise:
✅ Free set up
✅ No hidden costs
✅ No long-term contracts
✅ UK-based service
✅ Built around your business
✅ Exceptional customer support

No sales talk. No pressure. No obligation.
Your free consultation is an opportunity to chat about your business issues, ask as many questions as you want about Smart Food Cost and get expert advice on how we can help.


Of course; you’ll be able to identify over-portioning, waste and profit leakage.
Smart Food Cost cleverly helps you identify how to standardise recipes, cost portions exactly and calculate yield (raw vs cooked weight) – all in real-time.
£175 (plus VAT) per site per month includes staff training and access to the entire system’s functionality. There are no hidden extra costs. It’s a small price in return for a potentially huge gain for your fast food outlet or Michelin-star restaurant.
Provided we’ve received all the documentation we need from you and that your POS provider is responsive, we should be able to set you up in just a couple of weeks.
Most POS providers are able to integrate with Smart Food Cost easily.
Send us this information in a digital format and we will work with you to import it.
We alert you to price changes between the order and supplier invoice (by email, SMS, etc). We also keep a history of price changes.
Smart Food Cost tracks all key waste types – from spillages to expired items to incorrect dishes cooked
Absolutely! We currently support multi-site operators that exceed 200 outlets.
Of course. All of these processes will be customised during the onboarding process to suit the way you operate.
No problem – we can tailor dashboards and reports to provide the vital information you require to run your business efficiently.
Yes, our automation streamlines your entire purchasing process.
These reports are standard. The theoretical versus actual calculation and GP% are key metrics to help you understand your business profitability.
Certainly: you can have as many kitchens or storage areas within a single site as you wish to make stock-taking easy and efficient.