With 60 locations across the US, French bakery and cafe-inspired maman shares how MarginEdge helps them stay consistent at scale, giving commissary teams, operators and finance a shared source of truth for costs, recipes and daily numbers as they continue to grow.
maman
Location: Nationwide USA
Number of units: 60
Number of concepts: 1
Cuisine: French Mediterranean bakery, café & restaurant
Tech stack: Toast and Net Suite
Goal
As maman scaled from a single Soho café to 60 locations, staying consistent in culture, food quality, costs and sourcing became the central challenge. The team needed a way to keep thousands of invoices, commissary orders and daily sales numbers aligned across every market, without losing the speed operators need on the floor or the accuracy finance needs at close.
Solution
With MarginEdge, maman's finance team reconciles vendor statements and tracks commodity price swings with real-time alerts, cutting what was once a 7–8-day close down to five, with three in sight by year-end. Commissary managers place orders in seconds and generate prep and pack lists automatically, freeing up time to spend with guests and staff instead of behind a screen. Daily Toast sales sync each morning so every GM, regional director and accountant is working from the same numbers, and recipe costing lets the culinary team test and price menu changes before they ever hit a store.
“ We've accelerated our closes from even this time last year. It was a 7 or 8 day close, and now we're down to five. And by the end of this year we'll be down to three. ”
Lizzy Wax | Controller | maman
Foundational features
MarginEdge has helped maman set up their commissaries and cafés for success.
Vendor Statement Reconciliation
With thousands of invoices flowing in across 60 locations, maman's finance team uses MarginEdge to keep every statement accounted for, so COGS and purchasing data stay accurate no matter how many markets they're managing.
In a volatile commodity market, maman compares pricing across stores and regions in real time, reacting quickly to changes instead of finding out at month's end.
Maman's commissary model means every kitchen needs to hit the same cost targets. MarginEdge lets the culinary team see ingredient and recipe costs directly, so testing a tweak never means guessing at the impact.
