Back office for independent restaurants & food trucks
Snap the invoice. Know your food cost by morning.
MarginTruck reads every supplier invoice the day it lands, tracks what you actually pay item by item, and turns it into live inventory, recipe costs, and margins — without a bookkeeper and without the enterprise price tag.
Now serving its first restaurants · Built by RBM Business Holdings
Why we built it
The tools that do this were built for restaurant groups, not for one truck.
xtraChef and MarginEdge assume you have the staff and the budget of a multi-unit operator. A single location or a two-unit shop gets the same margin problem and none of the leverage — so most owners still track food cost in a spreadsheet, or not at all.
MarginTruck does the 20% that actually moves your margin — invoice capture, true food cost, and bill pay — at a lease price a small operator can carry, month to month.
What you get
Everything runs off the invoice you already have in your hand.
AI invoice reading
Photograph a paper invoice or forward a PDF. MarginTruck pulls the line items, prices, and pack sizes — even a crumpled shot from the walk-in — and files it in seconds.
True food cost from your POS
Connect Square and MarginTruck matches every sale to its recipe, depletes inventory, and shows real cost of goods — not a quarterly guess.
Price & par warnings
Get an email the morning a supplier raises a price, bills above your contracted rate, or an item drops below par.
Recipe & plate costing
Build each recipe once. Every new invoice price flows straight through to plate cost and margin — automatically.
Accounts payable
Due dates, approvals, and payment tracking for every supplier bill, sitting right on top of the invoices you already captured.
Order-guide compliance
Import a distributor order guide and MarginTruck flags every line billed above the price you were quoted.
How it works
Three steps, and most of them are ours.
Send it in
You send the invoice
Snap a photo at the back door, upload a PDF, or forward the supplier's email. That's the whole job on your side.
We read it
MarginTruck reads & matches
Line items, prices, and pack sizes are extracted and mapped to your item library, with anything uncertain flagged for a quick look.
You see it
You get the picture
Live inventory, current food cost, plate margins, and a bill queued in Bill Pay — ready before you've unpacked the order.
Pricing
One plan, priced for a single location — not a chain.
MarginTruck Lease
Included for every location
- Unlimited invoice capture — photo, PDF, or email forward
- Live inventory with par levels and below-par alerts
- Cost of goods & food-cost %, updated as invoices come in
- Recipe & menu costing tied to real purchase prices
- POS integration (Square) for true, sales-driven food cost
- Bill Pay — terms, approvals, due dates, payment history
- Order-guide & contract-price checking against every invoice
- Price-change & overbill alerts by email each morning
- Every user at your location, no per-seat charge
Month to month, no setup fee. AI invoice reading is billed as pass-through usage at our cost and itemized on your monthly statement. Your data exports to CSV any time.
Talk to us
Tell us about your operation and we'll set up a walkthrough.
Send over your number of locations, your POS, and who your main suppliers are — we'll come back with a demo built around data that looks like yours.