MarginEdge

“We use mobile tablets making it easier for everyone to use the recipes. The presentation picture is the first thing someone sees as they step up to the station.”

“With MarginEdge, we now have a system running on tablets that shows ingredients, procedures and pictures - it‘s easily navigated, searchable, and sharable across locations.”

““We’re always looking to see what we can get out of MarginEdge and it keeps providing more!””

““It takes a lot to coordinate how it all comes together; that’s just the nature of theoretical usage, but MarginEdge does a great job of taking those complicated parts and putting them together into something much easier to navigate.””

““I always want to be there for my guests. I always want to put new things on the menu and keep them on if I can, so having this confidence that a menu item is in fact profitable is huge.””

““We can’t put caviar and truffles on everything! We have to rein it in sometimes.””

““Every chef out there should have a financial understanding of the food they’re serving.””

““Just from an accounting standpoint alone, this made total sense. But as we dove deeper and learned about all the features and the robustness, it was a ‘for sure’!””

“The major value of MarginEdge is that 100% of the operator's time is spent in operations.”

“The platform has definitely impacted our food costs just because there are more eyes on it in real-time. We have multiple people, from the support team and at the store level, all tracking invoices, food costs and prices, all looking at all that stuff. So, just being aware of it and being able to get that information in real time, that's definitely made a difference over time.”

“We can use those insights to bring all of our operators together and share best practices. That elevates everybody's performance and over time brings the cost of goods down.”

“I use the purchase reporting a lot, because I can go back to our current vendors or even a new vendor, and I can say we bought this many cases of this product company-wide last year while looking for manufacturer rebates or looking to switch to a new product and see what type of pricing we can get.”

“Taking pictures of receipts and uploading them was a big help. It saved us a lot of time and effort.”

“Having data that we can give our individual operators about their top three, top five, or top 10 specific items that they can focus on to get the most return on their time spent managing that product is invaluable because otherwise, we're just flying blind.”

“Training new Blockstars on our processes for taking monthly inventories with MarginEdge could not be easier. The platform is easy to use and it affords me the opportunity to do a lot more white-glove training with our team.”

“When we started using MarginEdge, it was a game-changer. We were dealing with paper invoices and relying on staff, or going from store to store to collect them, but now we snap a photo of invoices and even have them automatically sent from vendors.”

“The teams that run our kitchens everyday also love MarginEdge and what it does. They find it super easy to use and that it’s such a good resource. That’s sometimes a hard sell to the teams on the ground in this industry because they don’t have time to be on a computer all day. Our teams all really like using it, and everything they can access.”

“We were able to make way smarter decisions than we would have been able to while using different systems.”

““When I have questions and reach out to support, they do a good job of explaining the software,” she says. “I get the impression that they’re also accountants, and they know what I’m talking about. They speak the language, and that’s super helpful.””

““The sneaky little things that people used to do to inflate their inventory and deflate their costs have disappeared with this system,” she adds. “Just like in a POS—where it’s really hard to manipulate a POS to embezzle cash—it’s really hard to manipulate MarginEdge so your costs look better.””

““By giving them access to purchasing details, it makes them smarter,” she says. “And the more analytics they have, the better their teams will be.””

““I was able to bring up the graph in MarginEdge and show the client the category spend,” she says. “You could just see the look on his face change to, ‘Oh, we’re totally overspending.’ It’s super effective to show them this so they know it’s not me making it up.””

““The idea that chefs can take pictures of invoices with their phone and upload it right to the app is really useful,” she says. “It makes it easy for them, and it’s quick.””

““With the invoice and sales data flowing from MarginEdge right into the accounting system, the team does more of the management-level work instead of the data entry clerk work.””

“The elevator pitch on MarginEdge is: you'd be crazy not to use it, and it makes you more efficient. And maybe you'll get to go home before midnight.”