Mise
Free menu cost audit · from people who've run kitchens

You've poured everything into this place. What if your best dish is quietly losing money?

Almost every independent menu has one — a plate that sells well, feels like a winner, and loses money on every order because costs crept up and nobody re-did the math. We'll find yours. Free, in 24 hours, using current supplier prices. Nothing to install, no commitment.

Find my money-losing dish — free
30 seconds to ask. The audit is free either way.
Why we do this

I spent nine years running a small restaurant. We had a lamb special every Saturday — it packed the room, it was everyone's favorite, mine included.

Two years in, I finally sat down and did the real math. Lamb had crept up 28%, I'd never re-priced it, and my best dish had been losing money on every plate the whole time. Nobody told the kitchen — because nobody could see it.

That's the whole reason Mise exists. Not to sell you software — to hand you the number you can't see until the year-end statement makes it too late. This free audit is us showing you, on one of your own dishes, exactly what we mean.

— The Mise team. We've cooked the food. We've stared at the books.
What a free audit can surface

Three patterns we find on almost every menu.

The dish you think is a star. The dish you've been overlooking. The dish that flipped on you without anyone noticing.

Sample dashboard view · illustrative data based on a typical Italian menu
Looks like a star · Loses money

Veal Parmigiana

$28 selling price · "flagship" main
Food cost$12.71
Food cost %45%
Healthy target~30%

Premium price, top of the mains section, sells well. After labor and overhead, this dish loses money on every plate. The more it sells, the worse the math gets.

Hidden winner

Penne Arrabbiata

$17 selling price · mid-menu, easy to miss
Food cost$2.67
Food cost %16%
Profit per plate$14.33

Sits mid-menu, gets no special treatment, gets no marketing push. This is the dish paying the rent. Most operators have no idea.

Margin drift

Margherita Pizza

$16 selling price · same recipe, same price, broken math
6 months ago32% cost
Today42% cost
What changedMozzarella +28%

Was profitable six months ago. Mozzarella supplier prices jumped, food cost is now 42%. Same recipe, same menu price — but the dish flipped from profitable to losing money. Nobody told the kitchen.

What happens after you ask

Three steps, twenty-four hours.

01

You leave your details

Restaurant name, your name, and how to reach you — email, phone, or both. Takes 30 seconds.

02

We reach out and ask about one dish

By phone or email, however you preferred. Three minutes — ingredients, rough portions, what you charge.

03

You get the full breakdown

Within 24 hours. What the dish actually costs, what your real margin is, and where the money's hiding.

Why we're different

They sell you twenty features. You needed one.

The big restaurant platforms run $400 to $700 a month and pile on inventory systems, scheduling, vendor portals, dashboards on dashboards — tools that need a full-time manager to run, and that most owners barely open. We went the other way.

The enterprise platforms
$400–700 / month
Built for chains with an office staff.
  • Twenty-plus modules you'll never use
  • Needs a tech-comfortable manager to run it
  • Weeks of setup and training
  • The one number that matters, buried five clicks deep
Mise
$19.99 / month
Built for the owner with a notebook.
  • One thing: what every plate actually costs, right now
  • Updates the moment a supplier price changes
  • Runs off a photo of your receipts — nothing to learn
  • We do the number that decides your profit, and we do it well

We'd rather nail the one number that keeps your doors open than sell you a dashboard you'll never log into.

If you want the platform after the audit

Honest pricing. No surprises.

$19.99
per month
$19.99
one-time setup (optional)

$19.99 a month, and your first month is free — no card to start. Build your menu yourself for free, or have us do it for you, one time, for $19.99. Same product either way.

No contract. Cancel anytime. The audit is free either way.

Your free audit

Twenty-four hours from now, you could know exactly which plate is the problem.

Tell us where to reach you. We'll ask about one dish — three minutes — cost it out with current supplier prices, and send you the full breakdown. No commitment, nothing to install. The audit is free either way.

Leave at least one — email or phone — and we'll reach out however you prefer.
No commitment. Your info stays with us, never shared.
Trouble submitting? Email us directly at info@miseservices.com.