Marginly is a financial operating system that watches every cost, price and signal affecting your restaurant, then acts before your margin slips. Live repricing, coordinated buying power and a working model of your business. All within limits you set.
Food costs in the UK have been through their sharpest rise in four decades, and wholesale prices still move week to week with weather, currency and global commodity markets. Energy bills, business rates, National Insurance and wage increases keep pushing the cost base up. Delivery platforms take a large slice of every online order. Meanwhile menu prices stay printed and frozen for months, because nobody has time to recost forty dishes every Tuesday.
The result is quiet, invisible margin leakage. A restaurant can be full every night and still make less money each quarter. Every week across the UK, venues that cook brilliant food close because the commercial side of the business was managed from memory, gut feel and last month's spreadsheet.
Large chains defend themselves with pricing analysts, procurement teams and forecasting software. Independents get a till report. Marginly exists to close that gap.
Sector figures are indicative, drawn from published UK industry and ONS reporting.
Traditional restaurant software reports what already happened. Marginly runs a continuous loop over your business, and every pass through the loop either protects money or makes it. You set the guardrails once. The platform works inside them, forever.
Marginly connects to your till, your suppliers and your stock, and layers on the outside world: weather, local events, fixtures, holidays and commodity markets. It sees your restaurant the way an analyst would, if you could afford one who never sleeps.
Machine learning models forecast your demand, your ingredient costs and your risks before they arrive. A cod price spike, a heatwave Saturday, an unreliable supplier: Marginly sees them coming and prices in the future, not the past.
The platform reprices dishes, prepares purchase orders, flags risks and coordinates buying, all inside boundaries you define. You approve what matters. Marginly handles the thousand small decisions that were silently costing you money.
Determines the optimal selling price for every menu item, continuously. It weighs live ingredient costs, stock on hand, customer price sensitivity, weather, local events, delivery commissions, competitor pricing, kitchen capacity and dozens more variables, then reprices within ceilings you set. Your menu stops being a static document and becomes your most responsive commercial asset.
Aggregates anonymised demand forecasts across every restaurant on the platform to spot optimal purchasing windows and secure supplier agreements before market prices rise. A single independent has no leverage; a coordinated network of thousands buys like a national chain. Fragmented demand becomes collective purchasing intelligence.
A continuously learning virtual model of your specific restaurant: its sales patterns, customers, seasonality, waste and profitability. Ask it anything. What happens if the steak goes up £1.20? The twin predicts revenue, retention, kitchen workload and profit before you change a single real-world price.
A live risk profile for everything you buy: price history and forecasts, supplier reliability, shelf life and waste probability, origin, weather exposure, transport disruption and currency risk. When a drought or a shipping delay is going to reach your plate cost, you find out weeks early, not on the invoice.
Monitors stock, forecasts what you will actually need, compares suppliers, negotiates pricing, drafts complete purchase orders and tracks deliveries to the door. Your manager approves with one action. Hours of weekly admin disappear, along with the over-orders that become waste and the under-orders that become 86'd dishes.
We are onboarding a limited first group of UK restaurants and small groups ahead of general release. Founding restaurants work directly with our team, shape the product around their operation, and lock in preferential pricing permanently.
Priority onboarding with white-glove setup of your menu, suppliers and till integration
Founding-member pricing, held for the life of your account
Direct line to the product team, with your requests prioritised on the roadmap
Early access to the Strategic Supply Network's coordinated buying terms
Marginly gives suppliers something the trade has never had: reliable, aggregated forward demand from a network of restaurants. Instead of guessing volumes and chasing orders, founding supplier partners see what the network will need weeks ahead and win business on reliability and price.
Aggregated forward demand forecasts across your product categories and regions
Direct access to coordinated purchase volumes from the Strategic Supply Network
Digital purchase orders, confirmations and delivery tracking, no more voicemail orders
A reliability score that turns your consistent service into new customers