Food Production & Catering

How much should we produce tomorrow? Answered in one place.

Production counts are entered once. Ordering is based on real demand, not guesses.

How it works here

Follow the data.

Scroll. Watch it get connected, cleaned, and turned into money found.

Menu & recipe systemOrder sheetsInventory countsLabor schedulesYourdatabase$308K a yearest. lost to overproduction$46.2K savedest., if you fix 15%
Today

Your numbers live in four places.

Harvest Table Foods runs on Menu & recipe system, Order sheets, Inventory counts and Labor schedules. None of them talk to each other.

Step 1 · Collect

We connect them. Read-only.

Secure pipes copy the data automatically. Nothing changes in your tools.

Step 2 · Clean

Names match. Duplicates go.

Everything lands in one private database, checked every time it updates.

Step 3 · See

The leak shows up.

Meals made that nobody ate: an estimated $308K a year for this sample company — worst at Airport Commissary. Illustrative, from sample data.

Step 4 · Act

Fix a slice. Keep the money.

Fixing just 15% is worth $46.2K a year.

numarket's first year costs $160K. Try your own numbers below.

Your numbers

Run the math yourself.

Illustrative estimate · typical company · 12 months

Meals made that nobody ate

Kitchens cook to a guess. The extra meals cost food money and end up as waste.

Worst at Airport Commissary.

64,710Extra meals produced
$4.76Food cost per meal
$308KLost per year
$308KLost per year
15%
$46.2KSaved per year
Saved per year$46.2K
numarket Command plan (Large), first year$160K

At 15%, it covers 28.9% of the first-year cost. Drag the slider to see what it takes.

How we'd fix it: A production number for tomorrow based on real demand, per kitchen.

Illustrative estimate for a typical company in this industry
How we estimated this
  • A made-up larger company (Harvest Table Foods) with 5 kitchens and 12 months of generated sample records. Not a real client.
  • Extra meals produced: 64,710 × food cost per meal: $4.76 = $308K a year.
  • “Fix 15%” assumes you recover 15% of the loss. You can change that share in the calculator.
  • Your real numbers will differ. The free Readiness Check runs the same math on your data.
The dashboard

What your team would see.

Filter it. Every number adds up.

Harvest Table Foods · WorkspaceSample data
60 monthly records
Meals served
889,280
▲ 1.6% vs. prior 12 mo
True cost per meal
$8.47
▼ from $8.47 vs. prior 12 mo
Overproduction
6.8%
▲ from 6.6% vs. prior 12 mo
Forecast accuracy
95.7%
▲ from 95.6% vs. prior 12 mo
Forecast vs. meals served
55,00060,00065,00070,00075,00080,00085,00090,000Sep '25Nov '25Jan '26Mar '26May '26Jul '26Aug '26
Food waste by type (lbs)
  • Overproduction39,887
  • Prep trim20,233
  • Spoilage16,693
  • Plate returns12,550
Action item · Set Airport Commissary production to the demand forecast

Airport Commissary made 31,004 more meals than it served (10.0%). Overproduction is the largest waste type at 18,981 lbs.

Owner: Executive chefDue: Starting Monday

What your team does differently

Production counts are entered once. Ordering is based on real demand, not guesses.

Effort for you
Moderate
First dashboard
6–10 weeks
Plan setup from
$40,000 · Command plan
From the field

Entered once. Seen everywhere.

Fill it in and hit Save.

Kitchen lead · on their phone

Production count

What the manager sees — right away

Sample
  • Airport Commissary: 1,240 made, 131 left over (11%)12 min ago
  • Central Kitchen: 980 made, 38 left over (4%)24 min ago

No emailed spreadsheets. Entered once, checked as it's typed, and in the dashboard right away.

How ready is your data?