The weekly cost leak check · independent food businesses
A vendor moves a price. An order runs heavy. A shift gets scheduled against a slow day. You'll find it when the month closes — after you've paid it four more times. Sofrito finds it on Tuesday, names it in dollars, and tells you the one thing to do about it.
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Why this is happening to you
You did the obvious thing. So did everyone — 90% of full-service operators raised prices. Menu prices went up 36%. Costs went up 36%. You ran that whole play and landed exactly where you started, and more than 4 in 10 restaurants still weren't profitable last year.1,2,3 There is no second price rise coming to save this.
60% of operators are already seeing softer traffic.4 The next rise doesn't buy margin — it buys empty tables.
Forty cents a pound. Four hours on a slow Sunday. Too small to notice, too regular to survive.
By the time the books say it, you've paid it four more times and the vendor's price is now just the price.
What the numbers actually say
Every figure below is footnoted to a named public report with a page number. Click through and check them.
How it works
Vendor receipts and invoices, your sales, your labor — three files, or three photos off your phone. No spreadsheet to fill in, no integration to set up, nothing typed by you. If it's a pile in a drawer, send us the pile.
We read every line and build the thing that runs every week after: your vendors and items mapped properly, the receipt flow going so you're not chasing paper each week, your baseline recorded in writing, and the weekday your check arrives.
The first one with something to compare against. What changed since last week, the single biggest leak with the arithmetic shown, one move, and the message to send.
On the day you chose. One leak, one move, one message — and the savings ledger keeping score of every dollar we've found you.
Week one has no previous week to compare against, so it builds your baseline rather than naming a leak. The first real weekly check lands in week two, and every week after that.
What lands in your hand
Every number is shown, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. This is a sample week, not a customer result.
Before rent and other operating costs.
You ordered more chicken than you used.
Ordered 15 cases × $45 = $675. Your usage says you needed 13 cases × $45 = $585. That's 2 cases — about 40 lb — sitting there at $90.
Cut the standing chicken order by two cases this week. We've written the message to send your rep — copy it and send it.
$90 this week. $360 by the time the month closes. $4,680 by the time the year does — and it never shows up as a line item, because there isn't one. It's just a number that's quietly bigger than it should be.
$90 on the chicken, $64 on a Sunday scheduled four hours heavier than the sales supported. One week pays for the month. Hold both and that's $8,008 a year against $1,788 — you keep 4.5× what you spend.
What you get
One vendor price move you don't catch for a month costs you $360 — that's the chicken above, left alone for four weeks. Sofrito is $149 a month, no setup fee, no contract.
$149 / moThe proof
The whole product is open. No signup, no email, nothing gated. Click through it the way an operator would on a Monday.
The summary that lands in your hand. Sales, food, labor, the leak, the move.
Which items and vendors moved, what it cost you, and what to order instead.
Which day was scheduled against the sales, and what one fewer person changes.
Every leak found and every move made, with a running total.
The whole weekly check, thumb-sized, the way you'd actually read it.
Seen enough? Thirty founding spots at $149 a month. Cancel any time.
Our promise
Three months is $447. If the savings ledger doesn't show $447 in leaks we found and showed you the arithmetic for — you don't pay another cent until it does. Every dollar we find is logged the week we find it, so you're never taking our word for any of this.
No free trial. If we're saving you money, that's worth paying for — and the proof is in the savings.
Pricing
Founding operator · first 30
$149 / month, per location
Cancel any time, no contract. Standard rate is $199 after early access — founding operators keep $149 for at least 24 months. If week one shows we can't help you, we refund it.
Secure checkout. We'll reply the same day with where to send your first week.
Straight answers
A specific dollar amount, tied to a specific item or shift, with the arithmetic shown. Like: "You ordered 15 cases of chicken at $45. Your usage says you needed 13. That's $90." Not "food costs are trending high."
If we can't show you the arithmetic, it doesn't go in the ledger and it doesn't count toward the guarantee.
We read it, we find your leaks, and that's it. We don't sell it, we don't share it with vendors, and we don't pool it into anything that identifies your business. You can ask us to delete everything at any time and we will.
Fair warning on the flip side: we're a small operation. If you'd rather not send anything until you've talked to a human, reply and we'll talk first.
No. Photos of your invoices and a sales total by day are enough to start. We built it this way on purpose — most independent operators aren't running a stack that talks to itself, and we're not going to make you buy one to find out if we're useful.
Your bookkeeper tells you what happened last month, correctly. That's a different job. We tell you what's happening this week while there's still time to change the next order.
If your bookkeeper is already handing you a weekly item-level food and labor read with one action attached, keep them — you don't need us.
Photographing a week of invoices is the bulk of it — most operators are done in ten or fifteen minutes. Sales and labor totals come off your POS and your schedule. If it's already a pile in a drawer, send us the pile.
Reading the check takes another two minutes, because it's three numbers, one leak and one move. That's the whole commitment.
Setup and discovery. We read every line of your first week and build the thing that runs every week after: your vendors and items mapped properly, the receipt flow set up so you're not chasing paper, your baseline recorded in writing, and your delivery day set.
Week one doesn't produce a "what changed" leak, because there's nothing yet to change against. Week two does, and every week after that. If week one shows we can't help you at all, we refund it and part ways.
Because we're finding you money, and that's worth paying for. A free trial would say we're not sure it works. We are.
Week one is also real work — a person reads every line of your paper and sets your account up by hand. We're not going to give that away and make it up on volume we don't have.
What you get instead is better than a trial: the entire product is open below, no signup, no email — so you can see exactly what you'd be buying before you spend a cent. Then the savings ledger keeps score from day one, and if it hasn't found you more than you've paid by month three, we keep working free until it does. The proof is in the savings, not in a free week.
They usually are. Handwritten invoices, missing days, a week where the totals don't tie — we read what's there and tell you plainly what we couldn't. If it's too incomplete to give you a real answer, we say so rather than making something up.
Nobody yet. You'd be among the first thirty.
That's the honest answer, and here's why it's a good deal for you: $149 instead of $199, locked for at least two years, a person reading your check personally every week, and direct influence over what gets built next. What you give up is the comfort of going second.
The price goes to $199 for everyone after. Yours stays at $149 for at least 24 months.
Cancel any time from your settings without talking to anyone — no contract, no cancellation fee, and we'll delete your data on request.
Most of them take one phone call and about four minutes, which is why we only ever give you one. We write the message; you hit send.
But the leak is yours either way — we find it and log it whether you act or not, which is exactly why the guarantee is on the finding. You're never paying us for a decision only you can make.
You've seen what it costs you, what you can save, and what it costs to find out. The only question left is whether it's worth $149.
Claim a founding spotThirty spots. Cancel any time. If week one shows we can't help, we refund it.