Your suppliers know the market. Now you will too.
Foodonomics reads every supplier invoice you receive — ingredients, packaging, consumables — and benchmarks each line against the UK food market. Walk into every price review with the numbers your account manager hoped you'd never see.
From delivery note to leverage — in seconds
Procurement and finance teams burn hundreds of hours a quarter reconciling supplier invoices against contracted rates — and most of the variances flagged never make it into a credit note or a renegotiation. We turn that work into a signal your buyers can actually action.
Forward or upload your invoices
Drop in PDFs from any of your suppliers. If you're buying for food production of any kind, we handle it. No supplier templates, no spreadsheets, no IT project.
AI reads every line, in £ and per-unit
Supplier, SKU, pack size, unit price, VAT, discounts. Foodonomics turns messy delivery notes into clean line items priced the way you actually buy — per kg, per litre, per case.
Benchmark against the UK market
Every line is compared to your own price history and — opt-in — to anonymised benchmarks across UK bakeries, manufacturers, restaurants, hotels, cruise galleys and supplement brands.
Whatever you buy, however you buy it — we read it.
Foodonomics is purpose-built for the six kinds of UK food business that live or die by a few points of food cost.
The pain: Flour, butter and sugar prices move every week — and your wholesaler knows you won't re-tender over 4p a kilo.
With Foodonomics: Catch every overnight price increase from Bako, Brakes or your local mill before it eats your tray margin.
The pain: Hundreds of ingredient SKUs across multiple suppliers, and procurement only spot-checks the top 20.
With Foodonomics: Every line of every invoice benchmarked automatically — so the long tail stops bleeding 1-2% a year out of your gross margin.
The pain: GP slips half a point and nobody can say whether it's the menu mix, wastage or the supplier quietly putting prices up.
With Foodonomics: See the exact SKUs that drove your food cost up this month, linked to the dishes they hit — defend your GP with numbers.
The pain: Multiple properties, multiple chefs, multiple nominated suppliers — and no single view of whether the group deal is actually being honoured.
With Foodonomics: One dashboard across every property. Spot the unit that's paying 18% over the group rate, and the supplier quietly drifting off contract.
The pain: Provisioning across ports and currencies makes price comparison nearly impossible — and ship's accounts only see it at month-end.
With Foodonomics: Normalise every invoice to £/kg per category, port by port. Know before you sail whether you're being marked up against the UK benchmark.
The pain: Actives and protein isolates swing wildly, contract manufacturers pass it on, and your COGS model is six months out of date.
With Foodonomics: Track every active, carrier and packaging line across CMOs and direct suppliers — so you renegotiate before the next batch run, not after.
Everything you need to defend your food cost line
Foodonomics sits quietly behind your purchasing inbox and tells you exactly when, where and how much your food cost is leaking — in pounds, not percentages.
Invoice Insight
Foodonomics Invoice Insight turns every supplier invoice into a clean, searchable dashboard of SKUs, pack sizes, unit prices, VAT and discounts — ingredients, packaging, cleaning chemicals, smallwares, the lot.
Price-creep alerts
Get an email the moment a supplier nudges prices past your tolerance or the UK category median — before it shows up in next month's P&L.
Supplier scorecards
Track every wholesaler and distributor's pricing discipline over time. Walk into your next tender or quarterly review with evidence, not gut feel.
Category benchmarks
Lines are auto-categorised — dairy, bakery, dry goods, fresh produce, packaging, cleaning, supplement actives — so outliers jump out instantly.
Recipe & menu cost impact
Link inputs to recipes, menu items or finished SKUs. See exactly how a 4% jump in butter or whey isolate hits the GP on every product you sell.
UK-hosted, GDPR-ready
Data stays in the UK. Cross-operator benchmarks are anonymised and aggregated — your supplier names, prices and recipes never leave your account.
See the gap between what you pay and what the UK market pays.
One glance, every overpriced line. Sort by category, supplier or recipe impact, and export the evidence for your next price review or tender.
- Compare to your own purchase history from day one
- Opt into anonymised benchmarks across UK bakeries, manufacturers, restaurants, hotels, cruise galleys and supplement brands
- Export evidence-backed reports for your next supplier tender or quarterly business review
Built for every size of food business
Whether you're running the show alone or managing millions in spend, Foodonomics speaks your language and finds the money your current process misses.
Sole traders & small producers
You're already doing everything else.
You're the baker, chef, ops manager and bookkeeper — and cross-checking every supplier invoice against commodity markets is the job that never gets done. Your accountant can reconcile the books, but they don't live inside flour, butter or whey prices. Foodonomics catches the overcharges and price drift you'd never spot, so you stop leaking money you never knew was walking out the door.
SMEs & scaling food businesses
Procurement shouldn't be a part-time job.
Someone in the team is doing buying on top of their real role — ordering, chasing, approving — but they don't have time to benchmark, tender or follow commodity cycles. So the supplier you've 'always used' quietly nudges prices up, and nobody challenges it. We give that person the market data and line-item evidence to negotiate like a professional buyer.
Larger operators & procurement teams
Walk into supplier meetings with the full picture.
You've got data coming from suppliers, brokers, indices and internal systems — but aligning it takes work, and by the time it's ready the meeting is over. Foodonomics validates what you're being told, flags when your contracted prices drift above the spot market, and tells you exactly when to dip in and out of spot buying instead of riding an overpriced contract.
Get a free audit of your last 30 days of invoices.
We're onboarding a small group of UK bakeries, manufacturers, restaurants, hotels, cruise galleys and supplement brands each week. Send us 30 days of supplier invoices and we'll show you, in pounds, exactly where you're being overcharged — no obligation, no card.