Built for restaurant operators
Know exactly where your money goes
Baby Chef connects to your email and reads your sales and supplier invoices automatically - then tells you what to fix every week. No spreadsheets. No data entry.
✓ Connects in 2 minutes ✓ We only read your sales reports and vendor invoices
This Month at a glance
May 2026 ▾
NET SALES
$84,210
▲ 6% vs last mo
AVG CHECK
$38.40
▲ $1.20
FOOD COST
31.4%
▲ 2.1 pts
LABOR
31.6%
▼ 0.4 pts
PRIME COST
63.0%
Target 58%
5 pts over · ≈ $4,210/mo
✦ BabyChef weekly insight
Your food cost jumped 2.1 points. The driver is your protein vendor — beef tenderloin is up 18% since April. Re-pricing the two dishes that use it would recover about $1,400/month.
The problem
Most restaurants run on gut. The numbers arrive a month too late.
By the time the P&L lands, the money's already gone. For most owners, food cost is a guess, managed by instinct, not by what actually happened last week. Baby Chef closes that gap.
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You find out at month-end
Food cost crept up three weeks ago. You'll see it in the P&L long after you could have done anything about it.
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The invoices pile up
Nobody has time to key every line into a spreadsheet, so the one number that drives profit goes untracked.
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A vendor quietly raised prices
Your supplier nudged costs up. It stays invisible until reconciliation.
9 in 10
operators name rising food, labor and other costs as a top challenge
34%
how much food costs have climbed since before the pandemic
1/2
of operators rank cost control as their single biggest challenge
Sources: National Restaurant Association, 2026 State of the Restaurant Industry; industry research
The dashboard
Sales, cost, and labor finally in one place
Sales, food cost, labor, and prime cost, pulled together automatically from the data you already generate, measured against where a healthy restaurant should be.
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Prime cost tracked against your target, automatically
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Per-dish margins from your real invoice prices
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Vendor price tracking that flags quiet increases
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Weekly, monthly, and year-over-year reports
Dish Margins — Lowest first
Filet Mignon
19%
Food cost $14.20
Below 25% — review
Burrata Plate
23%
Food cost $5.05
Below 25% — review
House Pasta
68%
Food cost $3.10
Healthy margin
Your data
Your restaurant's profit and loss without lifting a finger
Connecting your email feels like a big ask. Here's exactly what that does and what it never does.
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Only Toast and supplier emails
We read your daily Toast reports and invoice emails. Personal email is never touched.
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Read-only, always
BabyChef can't send, delete, or change anything in your inbox.
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Encrypted and isolated
Every restaurant's data is fully separated. Bank-level encryption in transit and at rest.
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Disconnect anytime
One click revokes access instantly. Your data is yours.
Pricing
Simple pricing. No setup fees.
Start free. Keep going if it pays for itself which it should, many times over.
Independent
$35/mo
For single-location restaurants and bars
Automatic invoice sync
Automatic sales report sync
Prime cost, food cost and labor tracking
Per-dish margins
Weekly AI insights and reports
Regional benchmarks
Multi-location
Let's talk
For groups running 2+ restaurants who want to compare across locations.
Everything in Independent
Cross-location benchmarking
Roles for owners, managers, and accountants
Per-location alerts
Priority support
Questions
The things owners actually ask.
Do I have to be on Toast?
Right now, yes — BabyChef is built for restaurants running Toast, so the sync works automatically from your daily Toast emails. Support for more POS systems is on the way. You can also upload sales as a CSV in the meantime.
Is it really no data entry?
Yes. Once your email is connected, sales come from Toast and costs come from your supplier invoices — read and categorized for you. You're not typing in numbers; you're reading what they mean.
How long does setup take?
About two minutes to connect. From there, Baby Chef backfills up to a year of your history so you see trends right away, not after waiting a month.
Is my financial data safe?
Access is read-only and limited to Toast and invoice emails. Each restaurant's data is fully isolated and encrypted, and you can disconnect with one click at any time.
What if I have more than one location?
That's the Multi-location plan — connect each restaurant and compare them side by side, with separate roles for owners, managers, and your accountants.
Still have questions?
Send us a note and we'll get back to you within a day.
