● BUILT FOR INDEPENDENT OPERATORS

Food cost is
half the story.
True cost is
the whole ticket.

Most tools tell you your restaurant’s food cost. Forkcast tells you the true cost of every single menu item — food, packaging, and labor — so you know exactly which dishes are making you money and which ones aren’t.

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★ THE TRUE COST TICKET ★
CLASSIC SMASH BURGER — $12.49
SMASH PATTY 4oz$1.38
BRIOCHE BUN$0.52
SEASONED FRIES$0.48
PEPPER JACK ×2$0.34
CHIPOTLE AIOLI$0.42
PICKLES$0.16
RED ONION$0.12
WHAT OTHER TOOLS MISS ▼
PACKAGING$0.15
LABOR 4.2 MIN$0.85
TRUE ITEM COST$4.42
TRUE COST %36.9% ⚠
YOUR PROFIT$7.57
$0.23 FROM GREEN
3-tiercost model: ingredients → recipes → items
Every itemcosted to the cent, packaging & labor included
One flagper problem dish, with the fix attached
How it works

Three tiers. Your whole menu, costed to the cent.

TIER 01

Ingredients

Enter what you actually pay — case price, unit, yield. Update once when your supplier moves, and it flows through everything automatically.

GROUND BEEF 80/20 · $4.42/lb → auto-updates 9 items
TIER 02

Recipes

Batch sauces, prepped components, sub-recipes — costed by portion so your chipotle aioli knows exactly what an ounce costs.

CHIPOTLE AIOLI · 64 oz batch → $0.29/oz portioned
TIER 03

Menu Items

Every dish gets its full ticket: food + packaging + labor = true cost, margin, and a color you can read from across the kitchen.

CLASSIC BURGER · $12.49 → 63.1% margin · amber
The color language

Three colors. Zero spreadsheet archaeology.

Thresholds apply to Margin %.

≥65%

Green — feed it

This dish earns its place. Feature it, upsell it, put it on the board outside.

55–64%

Amber — fix it

Close, but leaking. Usually one portion tweak or a pricing update — Forkcast shows you which.

<55%

Red — face it

You're paying customers to eat this. Rework it, reprice it, or let it go with a clear conscience.

Pricing

One plan. It pays for itself by the second fixed dish.

No per-seat pricing, no “contact sales,” no annual lock-in. $99/month, everything included — and the average operator finds their first $99 of monthly leakage during the free trial.

THE MATH: fix ONE amber burger (+$0.75 margin × 450 orders/mo) = +$337/mo. Forkcast costs $99 — that dish alone pays for it 3.4× over.
The Operator Plan
$99/month
  • Unlimited ingredients, recipes & menu items
  • True cost with packaging & labor built in
  • Action flags with the fix attached
  • Margin & true-cost color coding everywhere
  • Works on your phone, mid-shift
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