Spend by Product

Where your money actually went. Not what things cost — what you spent.

The page

Pick a venue. 151 products · $20,492.41 total — everything bought, ranked.

The table

Product · Total spend · Share · Invoices · Last purchase

Sorted by spend. The top of this list is your purchasing, in order of importance.

Share is the percentage of your total. The first five rows adding to 35% tells you more than any individual number: a third of your money goes to five things.

Invoices is how many times you bought it. Last purchase is when.

Read the top ten

That is the page. Everything below is noise you cannot act on.

If protein is your top four rows at 30% combined, then a 5% negotiation on protein is worth more than anything you will ever do to your produce order. Effort belongs where the money is.

Invoices count is the tell

High spend, one invoice — a single large order. Either a bulk buy, or a category you buy rarely and heavily. Worth knowing which.

High spend, many invoices — a staple. This is where a price increase hurts most, and where a negotiation pays most.

Low spend, many invoices — you are ordering something constantly in small amounts. That is delivery cost and admin time for very little money.

Spend and price are different questions

Price History asks: is this getting more expensive?

Spend by Product asks: does it matter?

An ingredient up 40% that you spend $80 a year on is not a problem. An ingredient up 3% that is 8% of your purchasing is. Read this page first, then go to Price History for the rows that matter.

Last purchase

Worth scanning for dates that are older than they should be.

A staple whose last purchase was six weeks ago either got substituted, got dropped from the menu, or someone started buying it under a different name — which usually means a duplicate ingredient. See Ingredients.

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