Turn invoices into
margin decisions.
Upload a vendor invoice and BOH Brain shows what changed: ingredient costs, affected recipes, vendor price swings, and where your menu is losing margin.
No credit card required. Free to start. Built for real restaurant invoices.
Invoice reviewed
Sysco price changes
Ribeye
3 recipes affected
Orange juice
Cocktail batch changed
Ciabatta roll
Matt's Bakery is lower
$194
vendor savings
12
recipes repriced
same day
cost visibility
The gap between what you're paying and what you're charging
The real problem
Most operators don't know their real food cost
until it's already too late.
A price increase from your broadliner hits on Tuesday. By the time you run your monthly inventory, that increase has already eroded margin on your top-selling dish for weeks — and nobody caught it.
You don't find out until you open the invoice — if you even check.
Your food cost % is still showing last month's ingredient cost.
You're selling dishes below your target for weeks without knowing.
See it in action
A walkthrough of every major feature — from invoice upload to margin reports.
Dashboard
BOH Brain — your cost command center
Invoices
24
Ingredients
186
Recipes
43
3 recipes over cost target
Spicy Tuna Roll · Wagyu Burger · Lobster Bisque
2 ingredients with major price increases
Chicken Breast +18% · Avocado +12%
Recent Invoices
Your cost command center
Every metric that matters — invoices, ingredient costs, recipe health, and alerts — all in one dashboard.
One platform. Every number you need to run a profitable operation.
Invoice to recipe cost to sell price — connected automatically. No spreadsheets. No manual recalculation.
Your invoices become your price database — automatically.
Upload a PDF, image, or CSV from any supplier. BOH Brain extracts every line item: vendor, product, pack size, and price. Review and approve, and your ingredient costs update instantly — along with every recipe that uses them.
- AI reads PDFs and images from any supplier
- Review and edit before anything updates
- Remembers your pack sizes and units over time
- Full invoice history tied to each ingredient
Always know the exact cost of every dish — not last month's guess.
Build recipes from your live ingredient catalog. The moment an invoice is approved, every affected recipe recalculates. Batch and prep recipes nest inside main recipes so your costing stays accurate all the way down.
- Live food cost % per recipe
- Costs update when invoice prices change
- Nested batch and prep recipe support
- Unit conversion handled automatically
Find the items that are hurting your margins before they hurt your business.
Link recipes to menu items and see food cost percentage across your entire menu in one table. Over-target items are flagged automatically. No more discovering a pricing problem at the end of the month.
- Every menu item linked to a live recipe cost
- Over-target items flagged automatically
- Sell price recommendations by category
- Manage multiple menus and dayparts
Set your targets. Know immediately when you're off.
Define cost percentage targets by category. BOH Brain compares every recipe against its target in real time and flags anything over budget. Sell price suggestions are calculated from your own standards — not a generic formula.
- Category-level cost % targets
- Automatic over-target flagging
- Sell price calculator built in
- Full pricing change history per recipe
Know exactly where your prices stand against the market.
Track competitor menus and see how your prices compare — by category, by item, and overall. The comp set analysis shows whether you're priced below, in line with, or above the market so you can make confident pricing decisions.
- Track any competitor's menu and prices
- Side-by-side comparison per item
- Category-level market benchmarking
- Below / in-line / above market labels
Resources
Learn more about the workflows and decisions behind margin control.
Explore focused product pages and practical articles on invoice pricing, recipe costing, and menu decisions.
Use case
Restaurant invoice processing software
See how supplier invoices become approved ingredient cost updates instead of manual spreadsheet work.
View the workflowUse case
Recipe costing software
Learn how live ingredient prices, prep recipes, and margin targets connect inside BOH Brain.
View the workflowFrom the blog
Start with the practical reads.
Article
How to Calculate Food Cost Percentage Without Guessing
A practical look at the formula, the hidden pitfalls, and what operators should watch closely.
Article
How to Price a Restaurant Menu After Supplier Increases
A guide to figuring out which dishes actually need attention when vendor costs move.
Article
What to Use Instead of a Recipe Costing Spreadsheet
Why spreadsheets break under real restaurant conditions and what a better workflow looks like.
Up and running in under an hour
No training sessions. No setup calls. If you can upload a file and build a recipe, you're live.
Upload your first invoice
Drop in a PDF, image, or CSV from any supplier. BOH Brain reads every line item and builds your ingredient catalog automatically.
Build your recipes
Add recipes using ingredients from your catalog. Food cost percentage and suggested sell price calculate instantly.
Set your margin targets
Define target cost percentages by category. BOH Brain flags anything over target and tells you what to charge to fix it.
Stay current — automatically
New invoice approved? Costs update. Prices spike? You get an alert. Suppliers change? Your recipes reflect it the same day.
Built for operators who are done guessing
One location or several — BOH Brain gives you the numbers to run a profitable operation without a full-time controller.
Independent Restaurants
Stop running food cost in your head. Know your margin before service — not after the monthly P&L lands on your desk.
- Real-time recipe costing
- Invoice-driven ingredient pricing
- Sell price recommendations per dish
Bars & Cocktail Venues
Cocktail costing done right — house-made batches, syrups, and infusions costed all the way through to pour cost.
- Nested batch recipe support
- Cocktail pour cost tracking
- Competitive pricing benchmarks
Multi-Concept Operators
Invite your chef, your GM, and your back-office team. Everyone works from the same live cost data — no more emailing spreadsheets.
- Team access with role controls
- Org-level data and standards
- Shared pricing targets by category
Simple pricing. No surprises.
Start free for the core workflow. Upgrade when you want pricing analysis, benchmarking, and the deeper reporting layer.
Worth calling out
CSV imports stay free. That includes menu CSV imports, competitor menu CSV imports, and CSV-based invoice workflows. The paid unlock is the analysis layer.
Free
Core workflow access without a credit card.
- CSV imports stay available
- Ingredient updates and price movement
- Manual menus and competitor menus
- 5 AI parsed invoices per month
- Up to 10 team members
- Keeps 10 approved invoices
Pro
For operators who want pricing and benchmarking decisions in one place.
- Unlimited AI parsed invoices
- Pricing workspace and recipe analysis
- Vendor comparison and sell price history
- Comp set analysis
- All reports & analytics
- Unlimited team members
- Keeps 50 approved invoices
Enterprise
Multi-location & custom needs.
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited team members
- Multi-location support
- Priority support
- Custom onboarding
- SLA guarantee
- Keeps 50 approved invoices
FAQ
Questions operators usually ask first
Clear answers for teams evaluating invoice-driven recipe costing and margin control software.
How does BOH Brain update recipe costs?
When you approve an invoice, BOH Brain updates ingredient costs and recalculates every recipe that uses those ingredients so your margins stay current.
Can I upload invoices from any supplier?
Yes. BOH Brain is built to handle supplier invoices in PDF, image, and CSV formats so restaurant and bar operators can work from the files they already receive.
Is BOH Brain only for restaurants?
No. BOH Brain is designed for restaurants, bars, cocktail programs, and multi-unit operators that need live recipe costing and tighter pricing control.
Do I need to enter ingredient prices manually?
No. Invoice approval drives the ingredient catalog so price updates flow from your purchasing data instead of manual spreadsheet work.
Stop finding out too late.
Every invoice you don't track is a cost you can't control. Every recipe without a live cost is a margin you're guessing at. BOH Brain fixes both — and it's free to start.