PrimeKitchen OS shows you your prime cost, labor position, and exactly what to fix — before the shift is over. Not three weeks later. Not after payroll. Right now.
By the time you see your numbers, the money is already gone.
By then you've already paid 14 shifts that should've been cut. Mid-shift, you had no idea. You staffed based on feel, not numbers. That's not your fault — you didn't have the numbers.
Your accountant tells you food cost was 34% last month. Cool. What do you do with that now? The money is gone. The invoices are paid. Historical data doesn't save you money. Real-time data does.
Your distributor raised salmon $2/lb in March. Your chicken went up twice. You have 50 recipes and didn't have time to check any of them. That's 50 profit margins you're guessing at.
PrimeKitchen OS takes your sales, your schedule, your recipes, and your invoices — and turns them into decisions you can act on during the shift. Once you see it this way, you can't go back to guessing.
Built by a chef with 20 years of operations experience who got tired of finding out too late.
If you had these numbers in front of you every shift, what would you change?
That's the point.
Every feature exists because an operator needed it. Nothing was built to pad a feature list.
Color-coded shift types, real-time overtime alerts, and projected labor cost per employee before you publish. Your schedule drives your labor cost — this makes sure it drives it down.
Build every recipe with real costs. When you photograph an invoice, PrimeKitchen reads it, updates your inventory prices, and automatically recalculates every recipe that uses those ingredients. You don't have to do anything.
This isn't ChatGPT in a restaurant skin. It reads your sales, schedule, recipes, and labor position — then gives you specific answers with real numbers from your operation. Ask it to explain RPLH to your kitchen team. It will use your actual RPLH.
Weekly operating status, rolling revenue, labor budget vs actual, and a dollar amount for money found through optimization. Not a report you have to read — a number you can act on.
15 restaurant templates, drag-and-drop sections, live preview, and PDF export with backgrounds that actually print. Import recipes directly — prices and descriptions auto-populate.
Performance scores, hourly rates, department filters, schedule status — every employee on one screen. Click any card for a full review. Flag underperformers. Recognize your best.
Not reports. Not trends. Decisions.
Labor is $49 over budget for current revenue. Cutting the 3pm dish shift saves $49 and brings labor from 35.1% to 28.2%.
Save $49 → hit 28% targetFood cost on this item drifted from 29% to 38% after a distributor price increase you didn't catch. At 22 covers/week, that's $86/week in lost margin.
$4,472/year margin leak18.7% food cost, $8.40 contribution margin, and it's your #3 seller. Every cover you shift from Chicken Parm to French Onion recovers $3.20 in margin.
$3.20 recovered per cover3 FOH and 4 BOH scheduled but it's a Tuesday pre-shift. Historical data says this day averages $1,900. You're staffed for $2,800.
Cut 1 FOH → save $96Your distributor raised salmon. PrimeKitchen caught it on the invoice scan and repriced 3 recipes automatically. Your Grilled Salmon is now at 31.2% — was 26.4%.
3 recipes affectedRevenue per labor hour is strong. Don't cut anymore. Your team is producing efficiently. Monitor through the rush and reassess at 8pm.
On pace — hold steadyA 3-point improvement in prime cost on $1.2M in revenue is $36,000 back in your pocket. PrimeKitchen OS costs $269/month.
"I built the system I wish I had all along — everything I needed in one place, so I stopped switching between applications and started actually running my restaurant."
"Operate with controlled aggressiveness. Cut fast. Protect margin. Stay in control. Not reaction — intention. That's the philosophy this entire system is built on."
"When you pitch to a distributor rep wearing a chef coat and a laptop, they listen differently. This system is built with that same credibility — operator-first, numbers-driven, no fluff."
No per-transaction fees. No feature gates. POS integration, AI, all 34 education modules — included.
Everything one location needs to run profitably.
Portfolio visibility starting at 3 locations. +$269/mo per additional.
Most operators don't realize they're off until it's too late.
You don't have to run blind anymore.