Tahlely connects your sales, recipe and available cost data to calculate gross profit and gross margin for the products it can cost. It shows which products contribute most, where food cost is pressing on margin, how margins moved since the previous period, and what deserves attention next.
These are product-level gross margins before payroll, rent and other operating expenses. Tahlely also shows the coverage of the profitability calculation, so you know which products are included and which are not.
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Four questions about your menu's gross profit
Which products earn the most gross profit?
Each product's share of total gross profit, and how much of it the top few products carry.
Where is food cost eating the margin?
Food cost as a share of each product's selling price, against the average across the products Tahlely could cost.
What changed since last period?
The change in gross profit per unit for each product, compared with the previous period.
What should I do about it?
A ranked decision with a next step, measured again when the next period is uploaded.
A POS report ranks products by revenue. It cannot tell you what each product keeps after the ingredients on the plate are paid for, because that cost lives in a recipe sheet and in supplier invoices.
So a popular product can sell more every month while earning less on each plate, after an ingredient price rise or a portion that drifted. Without connecting sales to recipe cost, that shows up only when the month's total disappoints.
It works from the files you already export. Where no cost is available for a product, Tahlely does not guess one: the product is left out of the calculation and counted as not covered.
Your POS sales export, plus a recipe sheet with purchase invoices, or an item food cost file. CSV or Excel, in English or Arabic.
Recipe quantities are priced with your ingredient purchase costs, or with the unit costs on your recipe sheet where no purchase cost is available, or taken from your item food cost file. Tahlely shows which source was used and how many products it covers.
Gross profit per unit and in total, food cost as a share of price, how each product compares with the period before, and a short list of decisions ordered by what is at stake.
Every figure is at the gross-profit level: selling price minus food cost, product by product.
Gross profit per unit, total gross profit for the period, and gross margin as a share of the product's revenue.
Products whose food cost takes a noticeably larger share of their selling price than the rest of the costed menu.
Each product's share of total gross profit, and how much depends on a few products.
Where the products that bring in the most revenue differ from the products that bring in the most gross profit.
Products whose gross profit per unit rose or fell the most since the previous period.
How many of the products sold have a calculated margin, the share of revenue they represent, and which cost source each one uses.
Tahlely's profitability figures are product-level gross profit and gross margin after food cost. They do not subtract payroll, rent, utilities or any other operating expense, so they are not your restaurant's net profit.
Gross margin by product is the part of profitability your menu decisions control directly: price, portion, recipe and ingredient cost. That is the level Tahlely reports.
An illustrative example of how a single profitability decision moves through Tahlely. It describes how the product works, not a customer's result.
In August, a best-selling plate is still selling well, but its gross profit per unit has dropped and its food cost per unit has risen.
The plate carries a large share of the menu's gross profit, so a thinner margin here moves the month more than anywhere else. Selling more of it at this food cost repeats the thinner margin on every plate.
Check the plate's selling price, its portion and recipe cost, and the purchase price of its ingredients, fix the weakest one first, then measure gross profit per unit again.
When September's files are uploaded, Tahlely reads the same measures again and marks the decision as improving, still open, worsening or resolved, with the before and after figures side by side.
This is Tahlely's own Dashboard, rendered with sample data. The first decision is a product-margin decision, followed by a follow-up on an earlier decision.
Order is the sequence to work through: a decision with more than twice the money at stake of another goes ahead of it. Severity is how serious each decision is on its own — the two do not always line up.
Review inventory reconciliation — Tomatoes
July 2026 to August 2026 · 2 periods
Inventory variance changed from 14.7% to 8.2% since this decision first appeared.
Upload a month of sales with your recipe sheet and purchases, or an item food cost file, and see which products contribute most after food cost.