Price jumps
A produce item jumps 18% between orders.
Restaurant invoice leakage audit
Your invoices may be leaking restaurant margin.
We review recent vendor invoices and flag likely overcharges, duplicate bills, missing credits, price jumps, pack-size changes, and unusual fees before they quietly become lost profit.
Why it matters
Invoice problems usually arrive small.
One invoice at a time, small charges are easy to miss. Over a quarter, they can matter.
Missing credits
A credit for a shorted delivery never appears.
Pack-size changes
A case price looks stable while the true unit cost rises.
Duplicate bills
A duplicate invoice gets entered twice.
Unusual fees
A fee appears that no one approved.
Manual review gaps
Bookkeeping software records the bill, but does not deeply validate every line.
Offer
Start with a small sample scan.
Send a small sample
Send 5-10 recent invoices from one recurring vendor, redacted if needed.
Get a leakage report
We return a plain-English report showing review items, evidence, and estimated impact where the data supports it.
Decide the next step
If the sample finds nothing useful, no problem. If it does, the next step is a deeper 30-90 day audit across 2-5 vendors.
What we check
Focused review items for restaurant operators.
Price creep
We compare recurring items across invoices and flag meaningful jumps.
Duplicate risk
We look for repeated invoice numbers, matching totals, repeated line items, or suspicious near-duplicates.
Missing credits
We check whether credits for returns, shorts, spoilage, or pricing corrections appear later.
Unit and pack-size changes
We normalize units where possible so a case price does not hide a true cost increase.
Unusual fees
We flag new or abnormal fees, surcharges, delivery charges, and invoice adjustments.
Human review questions
We turn findings into specific questions to ask the vendor, bookkeeper, or manager.
Best fit
Built for independent operators and restaurant finance teams.
Especially useful when invoices are reviewed manually, entered into bookkeeping software without deep price validation, or checked only after food costs have already moved.
- ✓Independent restaurants and small restaurant groups.
- ✓Cafes, bars, bakeries, caterers, and commissary kitchens.
- ✓Restaurant bookkeepers and fractional finance teams.
- ✓Recurring food, beverage, paper, linen, cleaning, or broadline vendors.
What you get
A plain-English report with the evidence attached.
- ✓Top findings ranked by impact and confidence.
- ✓Evidence for each finding.
- ✓Estimated recoverable or preventable leakage where supported.
- ✓Questions to ask the vendor or bookkeeper.
- ✓Recommendations for a monthly review workflow.
Trust and data handling
You can redact sensitive details that are not needed for the audit. We only need enough information to compare vendor, invoice date, invoice number, items, units, quantities, prices, credits, fees, and totals.
We do not contact vendors, bookkeepers, staff, or other third parties without explicit approval. Findings are for human review.
Findings are not legal, accounting, or tax advice, and we do not guarantee vendor credits, refunds, or recoveries.
Request a sample scan
Want to know if your invoices are leaking margin?
Send a small sample. We will show whether there is anything worth reviewing.