Food Cost & Inventory
Overused ingredients quietly reduce margin. OpsIntel shows where.
Theoretical vs actual usage by item and store, portion drift detection, and the estimated margin you can recover by correcting it — tracked continuously, not discovered at period close.
Food cost analysis
Large Pepperoni Pizza
Midtown
Cheese usage above standard
Observed variance
+8.4%
Weekly impact
$620
Margin opportunity
+2.0%
- Review portioning consistency
- Check prep station compliance
- Reconfirm recipe standards
Labor analysis
Schedule variance
Harbor Glen
Actual labor above schedule
Labor variance
+2.1 pts
Weekly impact
$480
Potential overtime exposure requires review.
What operators get
Variance by item, store, and period
Know which ingredient, which store, and since when — not just that food cost is up.
Margin recovery, quantified
Every variance carries an estimated impact, so you fix the expensive problems first.
Portion drift caught early
Small over-portioning patterns surface in days, before they compound across a period.
Actionable next steps
Portioning review, prep compliance, recipe reconfirmation — signals arrive with suggested corrections.
Find the margin hiding in your food cost.
See it running against a live multi-store operation in a 30-minute walkthrough.
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