We understand there are other options out there, but candidly Costmenu is easiest to use, easiest to understand and is the most cost effective. As our website states, "We stay in our lane" and "We play nice with others". Other guys want to sell you POS systems, accounting features, employee scheduling service, payroll etc. Costmenu list of features are straight forward – food costing, menu data features, and event/catering features. Our "lane" is pretty straight forward, and our pricing reflects that. There are no additional features or add-on options – just the three subscription levels and the features that go with each. As we noted prior, "We play nice with others!" This means all the information in Costmenu can be downloaded in a proper format for easy use in other systems. So if you have different POS systems or online ordering services that accepts imports, we will make sure that your data in Costmenu, can be exported to match that other system. That way you can easily use it anywhere you like. Knowing that, your data can’t go wrong using Costmenu!

Most of the time, you can be setup in a day. If you have 1,000’s of menu or prepared items, it could take a few days. Our import features dramatically reduce the onboarding process, and we offer a variety of easy-to-follow short help videos that walk you through the process. As we noted on our introduction video, this up-front work is TOTALLY WORTH IT, because the system offers so many additional reusable features going forward. In simple terms, a day or two of upfront work will save you countless hours of time elsewhere and will provide real time insight into enhancing your revenue opportunities!

We are positive that once you try our system and see how great it is (and especially for the price), that you will want to stay with us... but we also understand decisions change. That said, you are free to cancel your subscription anytime and you can take your information with you! It is your data! Our easy to use, top notch export features allow you to download any and all of the feature data that you have. If you want to come back again later, you will have to set up a new account with us. The previously exported data will be a good start for you, but there will be that initial upfront work to do again.

Every feature in the system can be easily customized by the user. Units of measurements, food, prepared items, menu item categories and labels can all be customized by you to meet your specific needs. In addition, different security levels and user access rights can also be created by you providing specific access to select features. There are so many dynamic customization opportunities within the system that you will feel like it was designed just for you!

It is totally up to you! It just depends on how you want to use the system and how much real time information you want or need. Remember, Costmenu does all the calculations for you and will update all of your information instantly when new data is entered. We make it super simple! As we point out in our introduction video, if you use the Vendor and Purchasing feature, when you input a bulk item purchase, that purchased item price is automatically converted into the food item cost per unit and then all the prepared item and menu item costs are updated along with the profit and return calculations. In addition a historical record is kept recording the changes which provides graphs of trends and cost breakdowns. Costmenu’s insight goes beyond just food cost, it can provide that needed insight into vendor performance, purchase orders and food item comparisons. As you can see, one simple input triggers dozens of results for you! Also, with our easy step-by-step import and merge features, bulk updates are super simple to accomplish as well. Again our goal is to take your data and make it easy and effective to use and understand when you want it.

We know that your primary business is food service and cooking great meals, and that you don’t have time to learn a complicated system or become a data scientist in the process. We designed Costmenu to be as simple to use as possible, while still offering robust results in the process. All of the fields are very easy to understand and using and updating the system can really be done by anyone you want. The system does offer multiple users on the same account along with customized security levels allowing you to turn on or off specific features per user type. That way you can delegate data entry without having to worry about others getting into the weeds of your business. The information breakdown is easy to understand with multiple graphing features for effective data visualization. This way anyone can understand the results and share them with the staff, cooks when you need to improve results.

Not yet but we are working on it! However, Costmenu is accessible and optimized for use on any computer, tablet or mobile device. It does work great on your smart phone, but candidly some of the features are really designed for sitting at your desk and using a computer, while other features are definitely designed to be used on the fly or in the kitchen. We understand what you need and how it will be used, thus we designed it from that perspective.