Free · 48 hours · no pitch

    Give me your restaurant's name. I will cost every dish on your menu within 48 hours.

    I find the menu online, build every dish ingredient by ingredient at UK supplier prices, and send you one sheet: the cost and the margin per dish. Then twenty minutes on the phone to correct the numbers, if you want them. Nothing to install, nothing to send.

    I am Nathaniel: EHL Lausanne, years running restaurants and bars, I run my own food and beverage business today, and I have costed a few thousand menu lines this year. The sheet is my read of your plates, so it is free.

    The free check

    Name, venue, town. The rest is optional.

    Or a photo of the menu to nathaniel@methodus.bar

    What is it worth to you?

    Two sliders, one honest range. The sheet turns the range into your dishes.

    £3k£50k
    10120
    What the three worst dishes are likely worth
    £3,120 to £9,360 a year

    Every pound of that is profit, not sales. At a 7% net margin, where a good independent sits, it is what £45,000 to £135,000 of extra sales would earn you.

    An estimate, not your number: on menus this size the three worst dishes usually hide 0.5 to 1.5 points of food cost on your food sales, the band the last ten sheets showed. The free sheet replaces the range with your dishes and your prices.

    Find my number, free
    £1,900 to £9,000
    a year, what the three leaking dishes were worth on the last ten menus
    22%
    average food cost on net across those menus; the leaks sat at 35 to 54%
    3 places
    where it leaked almost every time: the fish, the steak specials, the little extras

    The last ten menus: September 2026, UK pubs, restaurants and bars, costed at reference prices. No venue is named; each sheet is theirs.

    What lands in your inbox

    This is an example: a fictional 32-dish gastropub run through the same pipeline at UK reference prices. Yours looks like this with your dishes on it.

    Example costed menu: dish, menu price, net price, food cost, cost percent and GP for each dish
    32
    dishes costed
    272
    ingredient lines, each priced
    24%
    average food cost on net

    Open the full example sheet (PDF, 32 dishes)

    What happens next

    1. Today

      I find your menu

      From your website, your socials or the delivery apps. If it is only on paper, a photo from your phone is enough.

    2. Within 48 hours

      The sheet is in your inbox

      Every dish built ingredient by ingredient at UK supplier prices: the cost to plate, the food cost as a share of the net price, and the margin per dish.

    3. If you want it

      Twenty minutes on the phone

      The three dishes that leak the most and what each one is worth a year. We correct the quantities together; the numbers get closer to yours.

    Nathaniel Gilliand
    Nathaniel Gilliand

    Founder of Methodus, the costing app the sheet is built in. EHL, then years running food and beverage operations before building the tool. Still runs it every day in his own food and beverage business. The sheet and the call are with him, not a sales team.

    Plainly: the check is free because it is the first week of a paid two-week job, the Menu Margin Fix, where your own invoices replace the reference prices and the three moves get priced on your sales. Most people will stop at the sheet, and that is fine. What the Fix is.