You Know Food.
We'll Help With The Numbers.
Profit Kitchen is the operating partner for independent food businesses. Our Done For You team works your numbers with you every week. Pulse, our daily numbers app, is coming soon.
No contracts. No pressure. Just a clear look at where your money goes.
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Busy Is Not The Same
As Profitable.
You're great at the food. The hard part is seeing where the money goes before the week is over. That's not a skill problem. It's a visibility problem, and it's fixable.
Food and labor are your two biggest costs
Together they're called Prime Cost. When it stays near 58% of sales, there's money left at the end of the month. Most operators can't see it until the bank statement shows up.
Delivery apps keep a big slice
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub show you sales. They don't make it easy to see what you actually kept after commissions, fees and refunds.
There's no time to look
You close late and open early. The numbers live in five different places. So decisions get made on gut feel, and good food ends up paying for mistakes it didn't make.
Where every dollar of sales goes
A simple example. Rent, bills and fees stay the same in both rows. Only Prime Cost changes, and it decides whether anything is left for you.
Ten points of Prime Cost can be the difference between keeping 10¢ of every dollar and keeping nothing.
Two Ways To Work With Us
Start where you are. You can move between them any time.
Done For You
Available nowOur Ops Team watches your numbers, handles your delivery apps and POS, and coaches you on what to do next.
- Pulse is included with every plan
- Delivery apps and POS managed for you
- Regular strategy calls, in plain English
- Month to month, no long contract
$100/week and up
Pulse On Your Own
Coming soonThe app that sends your numbers every morning, with Penny, a built-in coach who points out one thing worth your attention.
- Morning Brief email with yesterday's numbers
- Prime Cost against the 58% goal
- Connects to Square and Toast
- 7-day free trial at launch
$149/month and up
Every Morning, Your Numbers.
In Plain English.
Pulse reads your POS and delivery sales overnight and sends a short brief before you open. No spreadsheets. No logging in to five apps.
- Yesterday's sales and labor, with the trend
- Prime Cost against the 58% goal
- What you kept from each delivery app
- One clear next step from Penny
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Built For Independent Operators
Restaurants
Dine-in, takeout and delivery. We help you see food, labor and delivery costs side by side, so price and staffing decisions get easier.
Food Trucks
The line is long but the bank account doesn't show it. We set up simple systems so you know what each day really earned.
Caterers
Price every job with the real cost of food, labor and packaging built in, so the events that feel profitable actually are.
C's Seafood · Florida
A seafood restaurant working with our Done For You team and Pulse. Their Prime Cost is now 59%, one point from the 58% goal. Seafood is one of the hardest places to control food cost, so every point counts.
We've Been On Your Side Of The Counter
Profit Kitchen founder Lakita Spann owned and ran Mr. Potato Spread, a fast casual restaurant, food truck and catering company. Before that she spent 16 years at AT&T advising small businesses across Northeast Florida.
She was named the 2024 JAX Chamber Small Business Leader of the Year, and she built Profit Kitchen so independent operators get the same clear numbers big chains have.
"Where great food becomes great business."
Not Sure Where To Start?
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll look at your numbers together and tell you plainly what we see. No pitch, no pressure.