Sales Uploads: Connecting Menu Cost to What Actually Sells
Why sales data changes recipe costing from a static exercise into a profitability system.
A menu item can have a good margin and still be less important than a lower-margin item that sells constantly. Sales data turns costing into priority.
Sales mix reveals what matters
If two products lose one percentage point of margin, the high-volume product deserves attention first. Sales mix tells you where margin movement actually affects the business.
This is why Karu should eventually connect product cost with sales uploads, refunds, discounts, fees, and net sales.
Net sales are better than gross guesses
Discounts, refunds, delivery fees, payment fees, and tax treatment can distort the apparent performance of a product.
A good import model stores enough detail to understand real contribution without asking the user to manually rebuild every sale.
Use sales to prioritize AI suggestions
AI recommendations become more useful when they know volume. A supplier change on a top seller should trigger more urgency than the same change on a rare special.
The recommendation should tell the owner where attention pays back fastest.
Operator checklist
Import product sales by date.
Store discounts, refunds, fees, and net sales.
Combine sales volume with recipe margin.
Prioritize alerts by financial impact.