Why Your Inventory Spreadsheet is Costing You Money

It feels free. It feels flexible. But that Excel sheet you've used since 2019 is likely the most expensive tool in your kitchen. Here is the uncomfortable truth about manual inventory tracking.

The 'Free' Tool Tax

You don't pay a subscription for Excel, but you pay in labor hours. If your Chef spends 4 hours a week manually entering invoices and counting stock, that's 16 hours a month. At €25/hour, your 'free' spreadsheet costs you €400/month. Comandero costs a fraction of that and does the work in seconds.

Static Data in a Dynamic World

A spreadsheet is a snapshot of the past. It doesn't know that the price of butter went up 12% this morning. It doesn't alert you when you're about to run out of stock during the Friday rush. It just sits there, waiting for you to type.

The 5% Error Rate

Studies show that manual data entry has an error rate of about 5%. In a restaurant with €30k in monthly COGS, a 5% error on your ordering or counting is €1,500 in wasted capital or lost sales. Can you afford that?