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Solutions to Streamline Your Operations

Our best-in-class software will save time, increase control, and reduce costs. Get everything you need to manage your invoices, inventory, recipes, and costs more efficiently.

Total Inventory Control

  • ​Invoices: Scan invoices to automatically update items, costs, quantities, and accounts payable. Receive cost change alerts.

  • Counts: Count inventory by storage location on a worksheet or mobile device. Post valuations or adjustments to your General Ledger.

  • Ordering: Order more precisely and reduce waste. Order quantities can be suggested based on par levels and/or usage projections.

  • Transfers: Request, fulfill, and approve transfers between restaurants and post adjustments to your General Ledger.

  • COGS: Track inventory usage by item and pinpoint your true food and beverage Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for each period.

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Complete Recipe Management

  • Recipe Costing: Cost out prep and menu item recipes. Menu items are automatically imported from your POS system.

  • Flexible Recipe Units: Utilize any recipe unit of measure (Metric or US) and any scale you’d like (ounce, pound, gram, kilogram, etc.).​

  • Recipe Versioning: Manage all of your recipe versions. Theoretical usage can be based on the recipe version in place at the time.

  • Menu Modeling: Obtain suggested item pricing based on your targeted costs or profits. Isolate items outside your targets. 

  • Prep Instructions: Add prep directions, pictures, steps, and utensils to your recipe items. Create a recipe book.

Detailed Prep, Production, and Waste Tracking

  • Prep Stations: List or display prep instructions or suggested food preparation by prep station.​

  • Scaling and Suggested Prep: Scale recipes to match your prep requirements. Prep quantities can be projected and suggested.

  • Production: Calculate real-time cost and usage for the production of batch recipes. Deplete inventory based on Production.

  • Prep Labor: Include labor in recipes to calculate full Prime Costs (food and labor costs for a recipe item).

  • Waste: Track the quantity and cost of waste for inventory and recipe items.

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Insightful Cost & Variance Analysis

  • POS Interface: Automatically update and report menu item sales from your POS system.​

  • Theoretical Usage: Determine theoretical inventory usage based on your recipes and sales mix. 

  • Theoretical Cost: Determine the theoretical cost of sales based on your recipes and sales mix. 

  • Usage Variance: Compare theoretical and actual inventory usage to isolate usage variances. 

  • Cost Variance: Compare the theoretical and actual cost of sales to evaluate performance. 

Strategic Menu Analytics

  • Target Cost Variance: Report variances to target costs with profit opportunities.

  • Cost Trends: Chart Menu Item Cost Trends with ingredient cost details. 

  • Theoretical Profit from Sales: Evaluate profitability for each menu item based on sales mix. 

  • Menu Engineering: Rank and evaluate your menu items based on their popularity and profitability to isolate Stars and Dogs.

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Complete Commissary Management

  • Transfer Requests, Fulfillments, and Approvals: Receive and fulfill transfer requests to and from a commissary. Approve transfer receipts. 

  • Suggested Transfer Quantities: Quantities can be suggested by on-hand and/or projected usage when entering Transfer Requests.​​​

  • Cost Markups: Markup the costs of items being transferred to include labor, delivery, packaging, and/or other costs.​

  • Recipe Transfers: Convert recipe items to inventory items at the transfer destination location.​

  • Adjustments to Accounting: Report transfer adjustments in a journal and export adjustments to your General Ledger.

POS Financials

  • POS Financial Totals Collection: Automatically update financial & statistical totals from your POS.​

  • Reporting: Get detailed reporting on POS revenue centers, financial categories, statistics, by daypart.​

  • General Ledger Export: Benefit from flexible account mapping and balanced journal entry export to your General Ledger.

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Integration with Other Systems

  • POS System Interface: Automatically import product mix, financial, and statistical totals into COGS-Well.

  • Vendor & AP Automation System Interface: Import new vendors and inventory item details from invoices into COGS-Well.

  • Accounting System Interface: Export invoices to accounts payable, and inventory adjustments and POS totals to your General Ledger.

From Our Customers...

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"Using features like counting inventory in COGS-Well is saving our restaurant managers eight hours a week."

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"Since switching to COGS-Well, our COGS are running somewhere around 3% lower than our last inventory system."

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"Having tablets, opening up COGS-Well, and going right through counting inventory is nice and easy for us."

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“Café Ficelle’s managers are placing purchase orders through COGS-Well for almost all of our vendors.”

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“COGS-Well truly automates the entire inventory process and saves us a significant amount of labor hours.”

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