Two to three hours of supplier comparison became five minutes.

A Pike County pizzeria needed a faster way to compare weekly lists from Sysco, US Foods, and other suppliers without turning a simple buying decision into another complex system.

Small price differences repeated every week

The pizzeria received weekly supplier lists from Sysco, US Foods, and others. Comparable cheese could cost $4 per pound from one supplier and $5 from another. Finding the better basket required two to three hours of manual comparison.

The tool did one core job

Light in the Dark Analytics built software that ingests the supplier lists, runs the comparison, and tells the buyer who to order each item from. It did not try to replace every restaurant system.

Rules stayed configurable without becoming burdensome

The buyer can set rules for individual items when quality or another preference matters. Complexity stayed low enough that maintaining the tool did not become a new weekly task.

The 70% tier in practice

Setup took about 30 minutes. The recurring comparison fell from two to three hours to five minutes. No annual savings or purchase volume is claimed because those figures are not part of the approved record. The verified value is a repeated core process becoming faster and easier to control.