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Tracking food costs is essential because it reveals the true expense of ingredients, yields, and portions so you can price menus correctly, protect margins, and reduce waste. When you know exactly what each dish costs to produce, you can make smarter purchasing, portioning, and menu decisions that preserve profitability and prevent surprise losses. Right now food costs are still volatile — inflation, supply-chain disruptions, commodity swings, and climate impacts keep prices

The FDA’s Food Traceability Final Rule (21 CFR Part 1, Subpart O) raises the bar on what food operations need to track: think lot numbers, who supplied it, when it moved, and what got transformed or shipped. In short, regulators expect fast, accurate answers when something goes wrong. The rule’s main aim is to speed up and simplify tracebacks so outbreaks and recalls get handled quickly and with less guesswork. That’s where our Lot Tracking module pays off. It makes capturing

Cooking is one of the few places where making a mess is actually a sign that something good is about to happen.