Your food cost is lying to you.
Find the real number in 60 seconds.

That's the most common situation. YieldSentinel is built around the reality that restaurant data comes from POS systems, accounting software, purchase logs, and inventory counts — none of which talk to each other. You don't need clean, consolidated data. Upload what you have and the system identifies usable columns automatically. Start with your purchase log if that's all you have.

Spreadsheets tell you the number. YieldSentinel tells you why the number is what it is — which items, which locations, which categories are driving it. The delta between what operators track manually and what the module surfaces is typically $30K–$80K/year in unidentified variance. The spreadsheet doesn't show the variance; it just confirms the total.

Yes. YieldSentinel reads any CSV or Excel export — there's no integration required. If your POS or accounting system can export a file, the module can read it. The CSV templates guide shows exactly which columns the analysis uses so you know what to include.

A P&L shows you what happened at the entity level. YieldSentinel shows you what happened at the item, location, shift, and category level — and identifies which specific things caused the variance. Your accountant works on last month's data; this module works on your current data, in real time, whenever you want to run it.