Know what every dish really costs.
Prices move weekly. Your menu doesn't. Tapd watches the gap for you and keeps every dish's margin current, so pricing stays honest without you doing the math.
“Tapd started in Greek Bites' kitchen. George, our co-founder, runs the restaurant and built the first version of this tool to answer one question every owner asks: is this dish still making money?”
Greek Bites is our live pilot today.
This is what's actually eating your margin.
None of it shows up until it's already cost you money. A single ingredient can jump 2-3× in a month, and nobody tells you until the invoice lands.
Want to check a dish right now? Use the free food cost calculator.
The math happens between tickets.
Food cost gets worked out in your head, on a notepad, or not at all -- because there's no time during service to do it right.
Price spikes hit you after the fact.
A supplier raises a price and you don't find out until the invoice lands -- sometimes weeks after it already ate your margin.
You're guessing which dishes make money.
The special feels profitable. Feels isn't a number. Without real recipe costs, you're pricing on instinct.
By the time you notice, it's already cost you.
A spreadsheet updated once a quarter tells you a dish was underwater -- after you've already served it two hundred times.
The core loop
Tapd plugs into how you already run the kitchen. No new system to learn, no more keeping it in your head -- just menu, recipes, and invoices in, real margins out.
1. Menu in
Your dishes and current sell prices.
2. Recipes in
Ingredient quantities per dish, including nested preps like sauces and doughs.
3. Invoices in
Snap a photo, upload a PDF, or import a supplier CSV. Tapd reads the line items for you.
4. Margins out
True cost and margin per dish, updated the moment a price changes.
Watch an invoice become an answer.
This is the whole workflow: snap the invoice, check what Tapd read, confirm. Your margins update themselves. Sample numbers from our demo restaurant.
Line items, read for you
- Feta, 5 lb tub$25.40
- Olive oil, 3L jug$21.10price up
- Tomatoes, 25 lb case$28.75
- Pita, 12-pack$8.90
Gyro Plate
margin after you confirm
64.2%
See exactly how a price crept up on you.
Every price you confirm stays in the record, permanently. No overwriting, no losing the trail. When a dish's margin slips, you can see precisely which ingredient moved, when, and by how much -- instead of just knowing it's worse than it used to be.
Olive oil, 3L jug
Peters Fruit Co · price history
- May 2$18.40baseline
- Jun 1$19.75+7.3%
- Jul 3$21.10+6.8%
Not another app to manage
A co-pilot only works if you can trust what it tells you. Here's how we earn that.
No invented numbers
If a recipe isn't fully priced yet, the margin says so. Progress, never fake precision.
We draft, you confirm
Extracted invoice data waits for your approval before it ever touches your numbers.
Nothing disappears
Every price you've ever confirmed stays in the record. History is the moat.
Built for the owner running the kitchen.
Not a portfolio manager. We'd rather be honest about who this fits today than promise everyone everything.
Built for
- Single-location, owner-operated restaurants
- Kitchens without a dedicated bookkeeper or analyst
- Owners juggling a handful of suppliers and a menu that actually changes
Not yet, for
- Multi-location chains needing consolidated cross-site reporting
- Teams that need role-based permissions and approval workflows
- Restaurants wanting direct POS integration out of the box
Simple pricing
We win on affordability, not enterprise feature depth.
Free
$0
Try it for real, on a handful of your own dishes.
- Up to 15 menu items
- Photo, PDF, and CSV invoice ingestion
- Live margin dashboard
Standard
$25/month
For a single location running its full menu.
- Unlimited menu items
- Full price history
- Vendor and supplier tracking
Plus
$50/month
For owners who want alerts before a dish goes underwater.
- Everything in Standard
- Staleness and margin alerts
- Priority support
Questions, answered
How does the invoice scanning actually work?
Snap a photo, upload a PDF, or import a supplier CSV. Tapd's AI reads the line items, but nothing touches your price history until you confirm it. AI extracts, you decide.
Do I need to be technical to use this?
No. If you can take a photo of an invoice, you can use Tapd. It's built for cooks and operators, not analysts.
What if a recipe isn't fully priced yet?
The margin says so instead of guessing. Tapd shows real progress toward a complete cost, never a fabricated number standing in for one.
Can Tapd read invoices from any supplier?
Photo and PDF work for any supplier. CSV import works for suppliers who provide one. Produce invoices without UPCs get matched by name, with you approving each match.
Can this grow with me if I open a second location?
Not yet. Tapd runs one restaurant at a time today, in early pilot with Greek Bites. Multi-location support is on the roadmap, not available now.
Is my data safe?
All database access runs server-side, never exposed directly to the browser. Your invoice data and price history stay private to your restaurant.
See what your menu is really earning.
We're currently working one-on-one with our first pilot restaurant. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out as soon as we're ready for more kitchens.