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Which Dish Really Makes You Money? How to Find Out in 10 Minutes

Busy doesn't mean profitable. A simple way for cook shops to see which dishes carry the shop — and which ones quietly eat the profit.

Busy and broke can happen at the same time

A full shop and an empty margin is one of the oldest stories in food. When orders live on paper scraps and in your head, the only number you ever see is what's in the drawer — total sales, not profit, and never per dish.

Meanwhile each dish performs differently. The curry goat might carry the whole shop while the soup barely covers its own gas and the fancy new item sells twice a week.

The two numbers that matter per dish

First: how many times it sells. Second: what it costs you to make — ingredients, mostly. A dish that sells 40 times a day at thin margin can still beat a "high margin" dish that sells three times. You need both numbers, side by side, for every dish.

Most owners can't produce these two numbers because nothing is recording them. That's the actual gap — not effort, not cooking, just recording.

Make the recording automatic

When every order — phone, WhatsApp, walk-in, web — flows through one system, the counting happens by itself. Top sellers, sales by day, revenue per dish: visible in one screen instead of an exercise book at midnight.

Add your recipes once, and the system tracks ingredient usage per dish too — so margin stops being a feeling and becomes a number.

The takeaways

Total sales hide which dishes actually earn — track per-dish
You need two numbers per dish: times sold × what it costs to make
If nothing records orders, no analysis is possible — fix recording first
One ordering system = automatic reports, no extra work

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