You’re bleeding food cost somewhere. You can’t see where.
Variance is a food-cost service: I help independent restaurants get a weekly food-cost routine running. I handle the setup; your team counts Sunday night, after service.
It opens a text to Joel.
No charge, no strings, whether you buy or not.
If you go ahead, the 90-day program is C$1,500 for the first five kitchens.
Two written guarantees. We don’t sell your data. Based in Southwestern Ontario.
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Joel SpitseOwner, Variance, Southwestern Ontario
Variance.Monday Review
White Pine Kitchen & Bar
Week of Sep 21
Sep 21 to Sep 27, 2026
$451.95
more food used than your usual week
Food cost was 34.7% on $10,700.00 of sales. Your usual is 30.5%.
Demo kitchen · Real software, sample paperwork.
Independent restaurants · Southwestern Ontario · 519-466-5515
Here’s the free part.
What you bring
Four weeks of invoices.
And your food sales for those same weeks. Food sales, not the bar.
Photos are fine: text or email them, forward the emails your suppliers send, or I’ll come by and photograph them.
What you get back
Two pages.
What your records can say, and what they can’t. Price creep checked.
The number on them is cost-to-sales: what you bought against what you sold. A counted food cost takes the weekly count.
Free Kitchen Margin Check, no purchase: our copies of your paperwork are deleted within 7 days of your report, unless you say yes to reader testing.
Built in the order you walk your kitchen. You never count prep: every dollar still lands in the week’s number.
A printed number every Monday, plus the week’s one fix. Every week builds your trend line.
By week four it’s not measuring you against the industry anymore. It’s measuring you against you.
Survives a real kitchen. Stops charging when it doesn’t.
For the first five kitchens
C$1,500
One payment for the 90-day program. No GST/HST is charged on this fee.
C$3,000 after the founding five.
A point is 1% of your food sales. On C$600,000 of food sales, one point is C$6,000 a year. That’s arithmetic, not a promise.
The First Number Guarantee
A usable number in 14 days. Or your money back.
The No-Hard-Feelings Guarantee: day 35, founding five only
Count three weeks. Then decide.
If the counting stops, the bill stops.
If the counting is running and you want to keep going, Variance continues at C$199 a month. You say yes, then I send the link.
See everything you get in 90 daysYour name, restaurant, and town are plenty to start. I’ll reply personally to arrange the next step.
Or text 519-466-5515 from your phone.
I’m starting in Southwestern Ontario so I can be there for setup and the first counts. Tell me your town. We’ll make sure the drive works for both of us before either of us commits.
Anywhere in Chatham-Kent to begin with.
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