Live Menu Engine

Turn your order guide into a live, fully-costed menu.

The Live Menu Engine™ ties your vendor catalog, sauce/base cards, and recipe cards together so every price on your menu updates automatically when costs change. No more guessing. Just update a case price whenever you want, and your entire menu that use that ingredient instantly updates its price across the board. You pick your own food costs for every dish Appetizer/Entree/Dessert. Its all under your control. Ever wonder how much money you're making or NOT making with a delivery partner? Menu engine tells you the contribution margin of every item for all your delivery partners instantly.

Every recipe, sauce, and base is priced down to the ounce, gram, or teaspoon.
Weekly vendor updates instantly recalc your real margins on every item.
See what third-party delivery is really doing to your profits per dish.

See Menu Engine Pricing Preview the Catalog & Card Screens

Just want the quick version? Grab the free Stop the Bleed Quick or the full Stop the Bleed Ebook for $9.99.

How the Live Menu Engine works

Under the hood, Menu Engine is a linked system of a vendor catalog, base/sauce cards, and recipe cards. Update one place — your catalog — and the entire menu updates behind the scenes.

Step 1 — Catalog

Load your order guide once.

Drop in your vendor catalog to the Catalog sheet. The Engine breaks each product down by the right smallest unit automatically — pounds to ounces, kilos to grams, gallons to ounces, and so on.

Step 2 — Bases & Sauces

Build your base cards.

Every sauce, base, or prep item gets its own Base Card. Pick items from the catalog, plug in quantities, and the Engine calculates exact batch costs and per-unit usage.

Step 3 — Recipes

Link recipes and see real margins.

Build your Recipe Cards from both raw ingredients and prepared bases. Set your target margin or food-cost %, add delivery fees if needed, and see what you should be charging today.

See inside the Engine

These are live captures from the Menu Engine running in Google Sheets.

Catalog Sheet

Import your order guide and let the Engine convert cases into per-unit costs automatically so every ingredient has a rock-solid true cost.

Menu Engine sauce card showing ingredient breakdown

Sauce & Base Cards

Build repeatable prep items once and reuse them everywhere. One price change, every menu item using that base updates instantly.

Recipe Cards

Plug in portions, see cost per plate, margin, and profit per dish — including optional third-party delivery fees and discounts.

Not ready for the full Engine yet? Start with the free Stop the Bleed Quick walkthrough or the full Stop the Bleed Ebook for $9.99, which matches the same food-cost systems and psychology we use inside Menu Engine.

Free: Stop the Bleed Quick Short, punchy version of the system so you can test the waters. Get the free quick version →

Ebook: Full Stop the Bleed System All 4 modules, psychology, and checklists that pair with Menu Engine. Grab the $9.99 ebook →

The Profit Toolbox Prime cost, AvT, card fee, and recipe cost calculators — all free. Browse the calculators →

Choose your Menu Engine plan

Both versions use the same underlying Engine. The difference is how much support and ongoing maintenance you want from us versus doing it all yourself.

Menu Engine Flagship Build

One-time, owner-built setup

$999

One-time build · Includes 90 days of priority support

We provision your Menu Engine and get you fully operational. We keep the Engine healthy, you just update your vendor pricing.
Includes custom tuning for your concepts and key menu sections.
90 days of priority support for tweaks, questions, and fixes.
no monthly maintenance or ongoing hosting fees.

Get the $999 Flagship Build

After purchase, you'll receive your Menu Engine file in Google Drive using the instructions below.

$399.99 Now $299

Menu Engine Core + Maintenance

Best value for working operators

$299 + $10/mo

One-time setup · Ongoing hosting & support

We provision your Menu Engine and get you fully operational.
Ongoing maintenance, hosting, and support for just $10/month.
We keep the Engine healthy, you just update your vendor pricing.
Ideal if you want real-time menu pricing without babysitting formulas.
Locked-in early-adopter pricing before we move this back to $399.99+.

Get the $299 + $10/mo Plan

Month-to-month, cancel anytime. Engine stays in your Drive; we just stop maintaining it.

Instructions and Terms/Conditions After Purchase

Once payment is complete, we'll share your Menu Engine file with the email address used at checkout. To keep everything working correctly, follow these steps exactly:

Open Google Drive.
Click the "+" sign in the top left and create a new folder named "Menu Engine".
Click "Shared with me" on the left.
From the file list, right-click the "Menu Engine" file, hover over "Organize", and click "Add a shortcut".
Choose the newly created "Menu Engine" folder.
Click "Add" in the bottom right.
Click "My Drive" — you will now see a folder with your new Menu Engine file located there.
In the future, if you purchase any "Bolt-On" extensions to Menu Engine, they will be placed (via shortcuts) into this same folder so they can be linked together and found when needed.
It is crucial that you do not rename or change the file from the form it was delivered in, as it may cause some of the live links and background automations to stop working correctly.

How to use your new Menu Engine

Walkthrough: from shared file to live pricing

This short video walks you through exactly what happens after purchase: How to start updating your vendor catalog, recipes, and bases/sauces without breaking any of the automations, and how to make the most out of your new Menu Engine

Watch on YouTube

How Menu Engine compares to the "big stack" tools

Most restaurant operators only get true recipe costing when they bolt accounting software on top of a full-blown back-office platform. That adds up fast.

Tool / Stack	What you're paying for	Approx. monthly cost*
MarginEdge	Back-office system with inventory, invoice capture, and recipe costing features.	Starts around $330/month per location.
Restaurant365	All-in-one accounting, inventory, and analytics platform with recipe costing.	Starts around $469/month per location.
MarginEdge + QuickBooks Online	Recipe costing + inventory + separate accounting subscription.	~$330 + $25 = $355+/month per location.

*Pricing pulled from public third-party reviews and vendor references at time of writing; actual pricing may vary by plan and location. Menu Engine gives you the core of what you actually use — live recipe and menu costing — for a one-time build plus optional light monthly maintenance.

Contact Us

Email us at contact@restaurantsprofitsystems.com