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Cost Brain.

A University of Chicago research project turned restaurant app that scanned supplier invoices and tied each price change to recipe margins.

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Timeline

  1. Activity

    The CostBrain Chrome extension, which scans invoices into real-time costing data, was last updated (version 1.4.0).

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    chromewebstore.google.com
  2. On record

    Voyage Chicago interviewed founders Nicholas and Derek Skeba; CostBrain offered a free invoicing tier and paid tiers at $25 and $40 a month.

    On record · Announced
    voyagechicago.com
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    “Like Mint for Restaurants”

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Listing date unconfirmed · page saved 17 November 2019 · Private Beta

“Like Mint for Restaurants”

Scan your your invoices and turn them into real time costing data. We map your vendor invoices to your recipes allowing you to understand your margins in real time. CostBrain will show you how your prices change from invoice to invoice.

Topics
Food and drink
Location
Chicago · Illinois · United States
http//costbrain.com ↗twitter.com/cost_brain ↗

In our words: The listing, in private beta, pitched CostBrain as 'Mint for restaurants'. Chefs and owners would scan vendor invoices, which it turned into real-time costing data mapped to their recipes, showing how prices moved from one invoice to the next.

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Sources

  1. voyagechicago.com
  2. derekskeba.com
  3. chromewebstore.google.com
  4. costbrain.com
  5. costbrain.com
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