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MarginEdge
Restaurant back office that reads invoices and tracks food costs, with an AI assistant.
- Type: Paid
- Monthly cost: $350/mo + $350/extra location
- Setup: Medium
- AI features: Generally available
- Trust: Verified
- Official site: https://www.marginedge.com/
AI capabilities
Positions itself as an 'AI-powered restaurant back office': automated invoice processing, plus an AI assistant ('Tom') and 'AI connector' that answer questions about what's driving the numbers.
Pricing
$350/mo per location, all-inclusive; 10% off annual. Toast users also pay Toast $50/mo per location for the integration.
Source: https://www.marginedge.com/pricing/, checked 2026-11-05
Trust checks
- Admin-verified listing: Pass · Reviewed by the Catervas team: links and prices checked Nov 5, 2026
- Active maintenance: Not checked · Not checked yet
- No open critical security advisories: Not checked · Not checked yet
- Privacy and data policy: Not checked · Not checked yet
- Company or foundation backing: Pass · Vendor named: MarginEdge
Problems it helps with
- Rising food costs: food-cost control, inventory and invoices: Owner snaps photos of supplier invoices; MarginEdge digitizes them, tracks ingredient price changes and food cost in real time, and combines POS sales with invoice data for daily P&L/food-cost insights — letting owners spot price spikes and re-cost recipes before margins erode.
- Rising labor costs and wage-law rules squeeze margins: Owner snaps photos of supplier invoices; MarginEdge digitizes them, tracks ingredient price changes and food cost in real time, and combines POS sales with invoice data for daily P&L/food-cost insights — letting owners spot price spikes and re-cost recipes before margins erode.
Works with
- QuickBooks Online · Toast, Square, 7shifts, QuickBooks;
- Square · Toast, Square, 7shifts, QuickBooks;
- Toast · Toast, Square, 7shifts, QuickBooks;
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