Restaurant prime cost & COGS software

Know your prime cost. And what's driving it.

A blended COGS percentage doesn't tell you what's working. DishBooks breaks down food, beverage, and labor cost by category and by location, automatically — built specifically for restaurants.

Major distributors like US Foods, Ben E Keith, and Sysco connect directly — their invoices flow in automatically.

Invoices from any other vendor are uploaded directly and go through the same AI-assisted coding: a case of chicken wings maps to Poultry, a shred of mozzarella to Dairy. Map an item once and it's remembered permanently — new items are flagged the first time you see them, and from there it's hands-off.

A single blended number can hide which location actually needs attention.

If you run more than one restaurant, DishBooks shows food, beverage, and labor cost side by side across every location — so you can see which one is running lean and which one needs attention, instead of digging through separate reports for each.

Metric
Location 1
Location 2
Prime cost
58.2%
51.4%
Labor
29.4%
24.1%
Ask Dex

Dex surfaces the specifics a blended report never would.

“Location 1 is allocating 6.5% of labor cost to dishwashers — Location 2 is only at 4%.”
“Protein cost is running 4% higher at Location 1 this month than last.”