Restaurants
Watch your input costs the same way you watch your sales
Cost Intelligence tracks what you buy against USDA and market benchmarks, compares vendor quotes, and scans for grants and tax credits your business qualifies for.
You find out a key ingredient moved before it shows up in a bad month.
What it does
The part that changes your week
- Benchmarks from public USDA data, not a vendor's own claim about being competitive
- Grant and tax credit scanning, including programs most operators never hear about
- Alerts sized to matter, so you are not notified about a two cent move
- Built for a live Tampa Bay restaurant before it was offered to anyone else
Specification
- Price monitoringYour key ingredients tracked against USDA and public market data
- Vendor comparisonQuotes compared line by line across suppliers
- AlertsNotification when a tracked item moves past a threshold you set
- Grants and creditsFederal, state and county programs matched to your business profile
- Margin linkCost changes flow into Menu Engineering Studio so plate cost stays current
Where it fits
Cost Intelligence in your industry
Also in the platform
What Cost Intelligence works next to
Insights Portal
One login for rankings, calls, reviews, ads and site health, with a written summary every Monday.
Call Intelligence
Every inbound call scored for booking rate, missed opportunities and the campaign that produced it.
LSA Command
Local Services Ads run properly: disputes filed, budgets paced, response times fixed, badge kept green.
Straight answers
Cost Intelligence, answered
Do you buy anything on my behalf?
No. We give you the pricing picture and the comparison. You keep your vendor relationships and you place your own orders.
Which grants do you look at?
Federal programs, Florida state programs and Hillsborough and Pinellas county programs, matched against your business type, size and location.
How is this different from my distributor's reporting?
Your distributor reports on what you bought from your distributor. This compares that against independent market data and against other suppliers.
Next step
Find out what your listing is costing you
Run the free Visibility Grader, or book twenty minutes and we will go through your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your competitors on the call.