Case Study: Burger 21 cuts food costs 2% and streamlines franchise rollouts with MarginEdge

Burger 21 Bridges the Franchise Gap and Cuts Food Costs by 2% with MarginEdge

Burger 21, a fast-casual burger franchise with 19 locations and a lean corporate team, struggled to find a restaurant management system that would scale with new stores, unify recipes and menus, and provide accurate food-cost visibility for both corporate and franchise operators — until they implemented MarginEdge.

MarginEdge provided invoice-to-product mapping (PMIX), a unified recipe module, POS and accounting integrations, and fast invoice processing, enabling weekly inventories and real-time theoretical usage reporting. As a result, Burger 21 cut overall food costs by 2%, streamlined new-store rollouts, reduced close-of-period work with 24–48 hour invoice processing, and improved franchise and accounting visibility — all powered by MarginEdge.

Burger 21

Ryan Johnston

Director of Accounting and IT