Who is this assistant for?

Your supplies went up and you are still on last year's menu because you do not know how much to raise. When you do raise, you raise everything evenly on the same day, and the next day everyone is talking about it. There is one dish your guests price-check from memory and you do not dare touch it. You were told to raise 10% because inflation was 10%, and something does not add up.

When supplies rise, most owners wait too long and then raise everything at once, the worst possible combination. This assistant computes the cash margin each affected dish is losing, designs the raise in waves starting where it hurts least, and protects the dish guests price-check from memory.

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◆ Included in the annual plan🧮 Costs, Pricing and Profitabilityv1.1.3 · 2026-08-26

Price Increase Simulator for Restaurants

Designs price raises in waves when supplies go up: how much per dish to recover cash margin, in what order, and how to communicate it without apologizing.

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What it does and what you get

When supplies rise, most owners wait too long and then raise everything at once, the worst possible combination.
This assistant computes the cash margin each affected dish is losing, designs the raise in waves starting where it hurts least, and protects the dish guests price-check from memory.

What you end up with

A wave-by-wave increase plan with each dish's new price, recovered cash margin, application week per wave, two communication lines per wave and a simple tracking table.

EXAMPLE This is what you getAn example built with Sazón de Origen, the house's fictional restaurant.Not your data: your result is built with YOUR restaurant's.See the full example →

Sample result

Sazón de OrigenFictional contemporary Colombian restaurant in Medellín, 2 locations, 6 years in business. Every sample result in the library comes from this same case. Fictional restaurant

The owner asked this: «My supplies went up 7% in three months and my goal for the year was to raise margin without touching the menu. What do I do?»

The input's rise is not the dish's rise. Before touching a price, the re-costing with the standard recipe and with invoices from the last 90 days:

Dish	Menu price	Cost before	Cost today	Margin before	Margin today	Margin lost per month
Bandeja de la casa	$42,000	$14,200	$14,850	$27,800	$27,150	$767,000
Trucha al ajillo	$46,000	$16,400	$17,030	$29,600	$28,970	$340,000
Sancocho de tres carnes	$38,000	$12,600	$13,020	$25,400	$24,980	$319,000
Posta a la criolla	$52,000	$18,900	$19,780	$33,100	$32,220	$273,000
Patacón con carne desmechada	$34,000	$11,800	$12,310	$22,200	$21,690	$214,000
The five dishes affected						$1,913,000

And the number that changes the conversation: the input that rose most is not the one that moved cost most. On the bandeja de la casa, of the $650 the dish went up:

Input	How much it rose	What it weighs in the bandeja	What it put into the $650
Ground beef	+6.9%	$3,120	$215
Frying oil	+11.8%	$597	$70
Cargamanto beans	+6.1%	$990	$60
Chicharrón	+3.6%	$1,540	$55
The rest (rice, chorizo, egg, plantain)	—	$7,953	$250

The oil rose almost twice as much as the beef and put in a third of what the beef put in. Raising the menu 11.8% "because the oil rose 11.8%" would have overcharged $4,300 on every bandeja: the dish moved 4.6%, not 11.8%.

Wave	Dish	Current price	Margin today	New price	New margin	Recovered per month	Week
1	Sancocho de tres carnes	$38,000	$24,980	$38,500	$25,480	$380,000	Week 1
1	Posta a la criolla	$52,000	$32,220	$53,000	$33,220	$310,000	Week 1
1	Patacón con carne desmechada	$34,000	$21,690	$34,500	$22,190	$210,000	Week 1
2	Trucha al ajillo	$46,000	$28,970	$47,000	$29,970	$540,000	Week 4
—	Bandeja de la casa	$42,000	$27,150	untouched	—	$0	—
	Total recovered					$1,440,000

No new price breaks the menu's $72,000 ceiling or drops below its $28,000 floor, and rounding goes to $500 and $1,000, which is how this market charges.

The bandeja de la casa is the index dish and stays out of the plan. It is what the 30-to-45-year-old professional orders Tuesday through Friday and the price they know by heart; moving it turns a technical adjustment into news and drags the comparison across the rest of the menu. Its lost margin —$767,000 a month, the largest of the five— is not recovered with price. It is recovered from the other side of cost, or it is not recovered.

The arithmetic lands like this, and it gets written out in full because it is uncomfortable: of the $1,913,000 the menu lost per month, the two waves give back $1,440,000. $473,000 are missing, and they are the bandeja. Which is exactly the goal Sazón de Origen set itself this year: raise margin without raising menu prices. Here you raise where the guest does not compare, and the dish they do compare is defended on cost.

The commissioned channel stays untouched for now. The assistant does not assume the delivery platform's commission: it asks for it. Until that figure exists, wave 1 applies in the dining room and in own delivery, and the platform menu waits — because the same price leaves a different margin there, and applying the raise blind can give back half of what it promises.

SUPUESTO: no industry price elasticity is used here. The plan does not assume how many units are lost when you raise: it measures them. Wave 1 is applied and units and average check are counted for 4 weeks against the previous 4, same weekday against same weekday — the only yardstick Sazón de Origen has and the only one nobody will argue with. Until that measurement exists, the plan is written assuming zero unit loss, which is the optimistic assumption and is therefore declared. At a $500 raise, the sancocho can afford to lose up to 2.0% of its units before the raise stops being worth it; if it lost 1%, wave 1 recovers $186,000 rather than $380,000, and if it lost 3% the raise goes negative. That cut-off —not inflation— is what wave 1 is going to measure, and it is why wave 2 is not applied before the four weeks are up.

Illustrative example generated with a fictional restaurant. Not a promise of results, not a client case.

This is 2 of 3 parts. Behind the wall are **the turnover-versus-sensitivity matrix** with a written decision for each dish, **the two lines per wave** —one for the team and one for the guest, without a single apology— and **the four-week board** with the cut-off that decides whether wave 2 goes ahead or gets reversed.

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How to use it

List the supplies that rose most this quarter, old and new price, and the dishes using them.

Paste the assistant into your working AI and build the increase waves with it, dish by dish.

Apply the first wave, measure units and average check for four weeks and adjust the second wave with what you learn.

Which of your data it uses

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This assistant works with 8 of the 23 fields in «My Restaurant», among them Menu price range, Average check (with currency) and Average monthly sales. It does not ask out of curiosity: these are what make the answer speak about YOUR scale instead of an industry average — the same calculation on a business of another size returns a number you cannot decide with. You fill them once and they apply across the library, so the second assistant you open already starts with them in place. Whatever you leave blank, the assistant asks for one thing at a time instead of inventing it, and says so before answering, so you know what it is working from.

Menu price rangeAverage check (with currency)Average monthly salesApproximate food cost (%)Best-selling dishesYour main guestActive sales channelsMain goal this year

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What triggers it

the input went upmy own decision