Are you still selling your dishes at the same price while your suppliers raise your bill every week?
For hospitality freelancers and SMEs, calculating the real cost of a dish (recipe costing) is an exhausting mathematical task that includes waste, net weights, and conversions. Most do it once when opening the venue and forget about it. But with current inflation, the price of ingredients fluctuates daily. Working blindly means that certain star dishes are making you lose money on every order without your bank account reflecting it until it is too late.
The trap of Manual Excel Spreadsheets
Transcribing dozens of wrinkled delivery notes at the end of service to update the cost of each ingredient in an Excel file is unsustainable for an exhausted chef. Manual cost management in hospitality is the fastest route to silent bankruptcy.
Our solution: Dynamic AI Food Costing Agent
At LANZA ESTUDIO, we develop specialized Artificial Intelligence Bots for the gastronomic sector. We connect a computer vision and natural language processing model directly to your mobile phone. You just send a photo of the supplier's delivery note, and the AI does all the reverse engineering: it extracts prices, detects hikes, and recalculates the exact cost of every recipe on your menu.
- Intelligent Document Extraction: The AI reads photos of stained or wrinkled invoices, identifying ingredients, formats (liters, kilos), and unit prices instantly.
- Automatic Recipe Costing Updates: The system cross-references the new prices with your saved recipes, applying waste percentages to calculate the real cost per portion.
- Profitability Alerts via WhatsApp: If the cost of a product skyrockets and a dish's profit margin falls below 70%, the bot sends you an immediate alert to your mobile.
- Selling Price Suggestions: The agent analyzes your menu and automatically proposes how much you should charge for each preparation to keep your target profitability intact.
The Real Impact on Your Gastronomic Business
- Shielded profit margins: Stop subsidizing meals due to inflation; adjust your prices in real time based on mathematical data, not intuition.
- Days of administrative work saved: Transform the hateful weekly task of typing invoice data into simply sending photos via chat when closing your restaurant.
- Negotiation power with suppliers: The AI warns you when a distributor has unjustifiably raised a product's price so you can complain or switch brands on the spot.