PlateMargin

Know your real plate margin.

PlateMargin pulls your Square sales, recipes, and inventory together so you can see exactly where your kitchen makes — and loses — money. Built for small restaurants, bakeries, and cafes.

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A recipe card showing the Cheeseburger menu item with its ingredient breakdown, $3.30 recipe cost, and 73.6% margin badge.

Built for small kitchens

All the operations tools you need to run a profitable kitchen, without the bloat of a full ERP.

True plate cost

Recipe costs update automatically as ingredient prices change. See live margin per menu item.

Square integration

Sales, modifiers, and refunds import nightly. Inventory deducts itself based on what was sold.

Recipe Book backup

One-click backup and restore of every recipe and modifier so you never lose your operational knowledge.

Waste tracking

Tag a Square discount as “Waste” and the items get counted against waste, not sales.

Low-stock alerts

Daily email at the time you choose, listing what’s below reorder level and who supplies it.

Purchase orders

Suggest from low stock, send to suppliers, receive partial deliveries, and watch costs roll into recipes.

See it in action

Mocked with sample data — your real numbers replace these once Square is connected.

Recipe Book listing six menu items with their menu price, recipe cost, and color-coded margin badges from 86.3 percent down to 29.8 percent.

Recipe Book at a glance

Every menu item, its recipe cost, and its margin in one scan. Color-coded high / mid / low so problem dishes jump out.

AI recipe suggestion panel for an Iced Latte showing four proposed ingredients with checkboxes — Espresso shot, Whole Milk, Ice, and Simple Syrup.

AI recipe suggestions

Stuck on a new menu item? AI proposes ingredients drawn from your existing catalog. You always review before saving.

Recipe Book page with Backup and Restore buttons and a green confirmation banner showing 12 menu items created, 87 recipe lines restored, and 11 group attachments reconnected.

Recipe Book backup & restore

One-click JSON backup of every recipe, modifier, and ingredient mapping. After a wipe or fresh onboarding, Restore puts everything back.

Bar chart of menu items by profit margin: Iced Latte 81.2%, Fries 86.3%, Cheeseburger 73.6%, Smoothie 70.8%, Caesar Salad 64.5%, Combo Wrap 29.8%.

Profit by menu item

Sort by margin to see what’s carrying the kitchen and what’s costing you.

Recent sales feed listing five Square orders, with one Croissant line tagged Waste and the rest tagged POS Sale.

Sales import & waste tagging

Square sales flow in nightly. Lines with a Waste discount get counted against waste, not revenue.

How it works

Connect Square once. Spend an afternoon mapping recipes. Then let it run.

Connect Square

OAuth into your Square location. Menu items and modifiers sync automatically.

Map your recipes

Tell PlateMargin what each menu item is made of. Optional AI suggestions speed this up.

Watch margin live

Sales import nightly, inventory deducts itself, dashboards show what’s actually profitable.