TL;DR
What did @resellerrowe use ChatGPT for?
Aiming for a 10% profit increase, a restaurant owner loaded their order guide into ChatGPT, had it pull the menu from online, and costed every dish down to the ingredient, giving a view of food cost, yields, margins and where money was leaking. They can now see food cost, yields, margins and exactly where the restaurant is leaking money. They say they're just getting started and plan to document what they change and whether they hit the 10% goal.
What they did
They loaded their supplier order guide (the list of items and prices they buy) into ChatGPT, had it pull their menu from online, and worked through costing every menu item ingredient by ingredient.
How it went
They can now see food cost, yields, margins and exactly where the restaurant is leaking money. They say they're just getting started and plan to document what they change and whether they hit the 10% goal.
Worth knowing
- There's no final profit number yet. Portion sizes and yields have to come from your own kitchen, not ChatGPT's guesses, so weigh a few plates to check its math.
- Price check: ChatGPT: free plan; Go: US$8/month (checked Nov 1, 2026).
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Try it yourself
Paste this into a chatbot, then add your own details underneath.
Here is my supplier order guide with item, pack size and price: [paste]. Here is my menu with each dish's ingredients and portion sizes: [paste]. Build a table that costs each dish per plate, shows food cost percentage at my current menu price, and ranks the dishes from worst to best margin. Ask me for any portion size you don't know instead of guessing.
Original post
See @resellerrowe's original post on X → (Sep 28, 2026)
Sources
- @resellerrowe on X, Sep 28, 2026 — the original post
- ChatGPT pricing — checked Nov 1, 2026