For independent restaurants

Your dishes are lying to you. We do the math.

DishMath is a CFO-in-a-box for 1–5 location restaurants. Connect your POS, books, and supplier invoices once — then every Monday morning, get an SMS that tells you which dishes to 86, reprice, or re-source.

No new dashboard to learn · 30-minute setup · Works with Toast, Square, Clover

Monday · 7:02 AM
DishMath: Good morning Jenna. Quick briefing for Roma Trattoria.
Your cheeseburger food cost jumped 28% → 34% (beef +19%). Options: raise price $1.25, or switch to Restaurant Depot at $4.12/lb (you pay $5.08).
We estimate this change saves $487 this week.
Approve supplier switch 👍
Done. Order routed. We'll track delivery.

Trusted by independent operators from coast to coast

Roma TrattoriaBlue Heron BBQCasa ElenaThe SandlotPho MarketEmber & Oak
The margin crisis

The average US restaurant nets 3–6%. That's a rounding error on a bad week.

Rising food, labor, and rent have crushed operators. The painful question is no longer "is my ordering workflow annoying" — it's "which dishes are bleeding me dry right now?"

3%

Median net margin

Industry data from the National Restaurant Association. One bad food-cost week erases a month of profit.

19%

Avg food inflation

Proteins, dairy and oils have seen wild volatility since 2022. Your menu prices haven't kept up.

0

Time to dig in

Owners work 60-hour weeks on the floor. Reconciling COGS by hand isn't happening.

How it works

Three data sources. One weekly briefing. Zero dashboards.

Connect in under 30 minutes

One-click auth to Toast, Square, or Clover. Sync QuickBooks or Xero. Forward your Sysco and US Foods invoice emails — we OCR them automatically.

We auto-build recipes & food costs

An LLM maps invoice line items to menu items. Approve the mapping once. We keep it current as prices move.

Monday at 7am, read one text

Actionable recommendations — not charts. 86 this, reprice that, switch this supplier. Tap to approve.

We quantify the wins

Every briefing shows dollar impact: "this week we saved you $487." Trust compounds.

What's inside

Five modules, one outsourced finance team.

01

Dish-level P&L

Real-time margin for every menu item, updated as supplier prices change.

02

Supplier switching

We know what Restaurant Depot, Sysco, and your regional produce rep charge. Approve with one tap.

03

Labor layer

Plugs into 7shifts and Homebase. Labor % by day-part, with schedule suggestions.

04

Menu engineering

Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, Dogs — updated weekly. Know exactly what to promote.

05

Peer benchmarks

Anonymously compare to similar cuisine, price point, and zip code. See where you're leaking.

06

Monday SMS

One text. Three decisions. Done before prep starts.

$487
Avg weekly savings
28 min
Setup time
7 days
To first briefing
$199
Per location / month
I don't want another dashboard. I want someone to tell me what to do. DishMath is the first piece of software that actually does that — and it pays for itself in a week.
— Jenna Marín, Owner, Roma Trattoria (3 locations, Austin TX)
Why not just use Toast?

We work with the stack you already have — not the one they want to sell you.

DishMathToast add-onsSpreadsheets + bookkeeper
Works without changing POSYes — Toast, Square, CloverToast onlyYes
Dish-level marginAuto, weeklyManual, quarterlyRarely calculated
Supplier switchingOne-tapNoPhone calls
Delivery formatSMS briefingDashboardPDFs
Cost / month$199$500+$1,500+
Data network effect

Know where you stand — not just where you are.

With 5,000+ independent restaurants on the platform, we can tell you exactly how your food, labor, and rent costs compare to peers of your cuisine, price point, and zip code. No one else can.

Explore benchmarks →
31.4%
Your food cost
28.7%
Peer median · Italian · Austin
+$2,340
Monthly gap to median
Built for

Independent operators who don't have a finance team — and shouldn't need one.

Restaurant owners

1–5 location full-service, fast casual, cafés, bars. Named decision-maker. Acute margin pain.

For owners →

Accounting firms

White-label DishMath as a premium restaurant service. Stop hand-building P&Ls in Excel.

For accountants →

Distributor sales reps

Differentiate your book. Bring a margin intelligence tool your competitors don't have.

For distributors →

First briefing in 7 days. No dashboard to learn.

Try DishMath free for 14 days. If the first Monday SMS doesn't pay for the year, cancel — no questions.

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