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F&B Operations Consulting

Your margin
is a choice,
not a chance.

Margine Consulting helps hospitality groups clean messy operational data, fix food cost and labor reporting, and make existing platforms like R365, Toast, and Simphony easier to trust.

Platforms
R365 Oracle Simphony Toast MarketMan Plate IQ Ctuit HotSchedules
What we deliver
3,348 → 843

Inventory file deduped for a multi-property hotel group — clean UoM standardization across all SKUs.

21,288 transactions

Parsed from raw receiving reports into 978 vendor-item combinations — ready for system import.

91% match rate

Automated price intelligence across Sysco, US Foods, PFG, and Restaurant Depot for real-time cost tracking.

Software gives you reports. Clean operations make them trustworthy.

— Margine Consulting

Powerful tools still need
clean inputs.

R365, Toast, Simphony, MarketMan, and other platforms are powerful — but they are only as accurate as the setup behind them. If items, vendors, UoMs, recipes, invoices, and POS mappings are wrong, the software will still produce reports leadership cannot fully trust.

The industry problem

Operators are drowning in messy data.

Duplicate items, inconsistent vendor names, wrong pack sizes, broken recipe mappings, and manual spreadsheets make it hard to understand true food cost, labor, and margin.

Why tools fall short

Software does not clean operations by itself.

A platform can calculate what it is given, but it cannot always know when the setup is wrong. Margine fixes the operational layer behind the software so reporting becomes accurate, usable, and easier to maintain.

How Margine helps

We turn exports into decisions.

We clean the data, standardize the structure, map POS sales to recipe costs, build variance reporting, and create workflows your team can maintain after delivery.

Margine doesn't replace your platforms. We make them work.

Expected impact
Cleaner reportingFewer manual fixes and more confidence in weekly and monthly numbers.
Margin visibilityFaster identification of price changes, waste, and low-margin items.
Time savedLess time rebuilding spreadsheets and more time managing the actual operation.
Better decisionsLeadership can act on real data instead of guessing from broken reports.

Built from inside
the industry.

Margine Consulting was founded by a hospitality operations specialist with hands-on experience across multi-location hotel and restaurant groups in New York City — building the reporting systems, cleaning the data, and running the analysis that operators actually rely on.

We don't sell theory. We've built the reports, cleaned the data, and reconciled the variances ourselves. Our work is grounded in how hospitality actually runs — shift by shift, cover by cover.

Whether you're a single-location operator trying to understand food cost, or a regional group cleaning years of platform data, we meet you where you are.

"The data is already there.
We just make it work for you."

Our approach is simple: understand your operation first, then clean and build the systems that make sense for your business — not the other way around.

We've worked across properties with Oracle Simphony, R365, Toast, and more. Platform-agnostic by design, but deeply practical around the systems hospitality teams already use.

Six ways we
move the needle.

Platform-agnostic by design. We improve the systems you already use — no switching required.

02
Inventory Management

SKU setup, UoM standardization, and inventory workflow design. We turn messy spreadsheets into clean, system-ready data.

R365MarketManPlate IQ
03
Labor Variance

Staffing master vs. payroll reconciliation, schedule vs. actual hours, and cost-per-cover labor tracking across all locations.

HotSchedulesR365 Payroll
04
P&L Build-out

From scratch or from existing data — structured P&L with revenue, COGS, labor, and contribution margin by period and location.

Multi-locationExcel / Sheets
05
Platform Optimization & Training

New to R365, Toast, or another platform — or not getting value from the one you already have? We handle configuration, cleanup, data migration, and hands-on training for your team.

R365CtuitToast
06
Data Cleanup & Migration

Vendor deduplication, UoM normalization, receiving report parsing — the foundational work that makes every other report accurate.

R365PythonExcel

Engagements,
anonymized.

Client names withheld out of respect for confidentiality. Operational details below reflect real deliverables.

Case · 01 Hotel · NYC

Cleaned a 3,348-row inventory file down to 843 standardized SKUs.

Multi-property hotel group needed R365-ready inventory data. We deduplicated entries, standardized units of measure (CAN → Each, GAL → Gallon, weight ranges → LB via midpoint math), and delivered a clean import-ready workbook.

R365 UoM normalization Python
Case · 02 Restaurant · NYC

Built a full P&L comparison with month-over-year delta tracking.

Hotel F&B operator needed visibility into how a property transition affected margin. We produced a three-column structure — prior year, current year, and current year excluding one-off events — with blended gross margin and contribution margin by line.

Excel modeling Multi-location Variance analysis
Case · 03 Procurement

Automated price tracking across 5 distributors with 91% match rate.

Restaurant group wanted real-time visibility into ingredient pricing. We built a desktop application scraping Sysco, US Foods, PFG, Restaurant Depot, and Webstaurant — surfacing price changes the same day they happened.

Python PyQt6 Live scraping
How it works

From first call
to clear data.

1
Discovery call or sample review

We learn your operation — locations, platforms, pain points, and what success looks like. You can also send one messy report so we can quickly assess the issue.

2
Data audit

We review your existing reports, POS exports, item files, vendor lists, invoices, and system setup to identify gaps and quick wins.

3
Build & deliver

Reports, cleaned data, or platform configuration — on time, in the format your team uses.

4
Ongoing support

Monthly cadence, review calls, and continuous refinement as your business evolves.

"We don't consult from the outside. We've sat where you sit."

Every recommendation we make is grounded in real operational experience. We've used the same platforms, built the same reports, and faced the same data problems your team deals with every day.

Send a sample report

Scoped to your
operation.

Every engagement is different. Send us one messy report, invoice export, item file, or workbook and we can usually tell you where the biggest issues are before proposing a clear, itemized scope.

Send a messy report
Scope
Number of locations, services needed, and frequency of delivery.
Engagement
One-time project, monthly retainer, or ongoing operational support.
Complexity
Current state of your data, platforms in use, and any cleanup required.
Timeline
Standard turnaround or expedited delivery if you need results fast.

Send us one
messy report.

Upload a sample report, inventory export, invoice, screenshot, or workbook. We'll review the issue and point you toward what can be cleaned, fixed, rebuilt, or automated.

ResponseWithin 24 hours
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Upload one messy report, POS export, inventory file, invoice, screenshot, or workbook. Optional, but this helps us give a sharper answer.