Margin Audits · Adelaide

Menu costing.
Margin control.
Recipe standardisation.

Most Adelaide cafés are leaking $20–40k a year on their menu and don't know which dishes. I find the leaks. I'm a working apprentice chef, not a consultant.

Book a Free Menu Margin Scan → See the Method
Coverage
Adelaide metro
+ near-regional
Reference Database
934verified items
Founder
Apprentice chef.
Still on the line.

The Leak

Most menus aren't underpriced — they're under-tracked.

Supplier prices move. Recipes drift. Specials go on the menu without being costed. The kitchen plates 230 grams of pasta when the spec says 200. Your costing software is set up — but it's six months out of date, because nobody has time to maintain it.

None of these are dramatic. That's why they survive. The damage shows up as a tight bank balance and a vague feeling that something isn't right.

A Margin Scan finds those leaks in a 60-minute call. The full audit fixes the system that lets them happen.

One real example

Mil Lel Shaved Parmesan, 1kg. Same product, same brand, same supplier upstream.

Bidfood Adelaide $35.95 / kg
PFD direct $26.26 / kg
27% spread $2,010/yr leak at 4kg/week
Source: invoices photographed May 2026, anonymised.

The Offer

The Menu Margin Scan.

60 minutes with a working chef. 10 of your top dishes. Dollar-quantified leaks and one fix per dish. 24-hour turnaround.

01
60-minute live video call. We walk through 10 of your top sellers together. Cost on the fly against your invoices and the Adelaide Wholesale Reference.
02
1-page summary PDF within 24 hours of the call. Every dish on one sheet. Every finding sourced.
03
One actionable fix per dish. Recipe change, supplier swap, portion fix, or pricing adjustment. Specific. Implementable next week.
04
Same-day re-engineering on the highest-leak dish. Full cost breakdown, spec sheet, plating note.
05
Adelaide Supplier Quick-Reference. Top 20 line items with cheapest verified alternate, drawn from the Reference v2 database.
The Menu Margin Scan
A working chef. 10 dishes. One sitting.
Free
First 3 Adelaide venues. $497 after that.
Money-back guarantee. If we don't find $497 of clear opportunity in the call, full refund. No awkwardness.
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For venues ready for the full work

The MenuMath Audit.

Every dish costed. Suppliers benchmarked. Recipes standardised. 14 days from kickoff to executive PDF. Backed by a $7,500 recoverable-margin guarantee.

$2,500 Founder pricing
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The Method

Six stages. Every finding sourced.

No off-the-shelf reports. Every dollar figure traces back to your own invoices, your own recipes, and verified Adelaide wholesale data.

01 / 02

True food cost + engineering matrix

Every dish recosted against current invoices. Then classified as Star, Plowhorse, Puzzle, or Dog. Each gets a specific action — protect, re-engineer, promote, or cut.

03 / 04

Supplier audit + recipe re-engineering

Every high-volume ingredient benchmarked against verified alternates. Two lowest-margin dishes rebuilt from scratch with full spec.

05 / 06

Pricing strategy + 30/60/90 roadmap

Dish-by-dish recommended prices with revenue projections. A week-by-week implementation plan your head chef can run without me in the room.

See the method applied

The Methodology Sample PDF.

Five TAFE recipes recosted using the MenuMath method. Three finding types demonstrated. Full working in the appendix. Real apprentice work, the method applied honestly — not a fake client.

Download the Sample PDF →
934 verified items

The Adelaide Wholesale Price Reference. Cross-referenced against PFD invoices, TAFE SVR stocklist, and supplier records. Grows with every invoice photographed.

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About

I'm not a consultant.

I'm an apprentice chef who works the line. I built MenuMath because I watched my workplace bleed money on supplier price drift and portion creep, and I couldn't unsee it.

Twenty years old. From Gawler. Currently apprenticing in a working Adelaide kitchen. I see the problem from inside the pass — software founders don't have that. Consultants charge by the day and leave you with a slide deck. I deliver a working system and a 30-day check-in, then I leave you to run it.

If the audit doesn't pay for itself three times over in year one, it's free. That's the whole pitch.

Ready

Ready to find what your menu is leaking?

First three Adelaide venues get the Scan free. Owner-operators or head chefs. One booking per venue.

DM @menu_math on Instagram → owen@menumath.com.au
Adelaide metro + near-regional · Independent venues only