Restaurant management built around the kitchen pass Seven modules, one order record, one login

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One floor, one kitchen

You are the owner, the manager, the accountant and sometimes the second cook.

Software sold to chains assumes a head office. You do not have one. What you need is something that gets installed in a morning, learned in a shift, and answers the day at closing without you exporting anything.

What actually matters at your size

Four constraints a single location lives with.

Constraint 01

Nobody has a week for implementation

Setup is a menu, a floor plan, a printer and your staff codes. We build the menu with you from your existing card, including tax rates and station routing, and you can be taking real orders the same day. Recipes come afterwards, starting with your twenty biggest sellers, because that is where nearly all the food cost sits anyway.

Constraint 02

Training happens during service, or not at all

The counter is designed so a captain who has used any till can take an order without a manual. Station screens show one thing: what to cook and how long it has been waiting. In practice a shift is enough for the floor and about twenty minutes for the kitchen.

Constraint 03

Staff turnover is a fact, not a failing

Because roles are scoped, a new cashier can be given a login with sensible limits in under a minute, and a departing one can be removed just as quickly. Discount and void limits mean a new hire cannot cost you much while they learn.

Constraint 04

You want one screen at closing, not a report suite

Sales, cash reconciliation, food cost on what was sold, wastage logged, labour hours and covers, on one page for the day just traded. Everything else is available when you want to go deeper, and stays out of the way when you do not.

The honest version

Where a single outlet gains most, and where it gains least.

Biggest gain

Knowing your real food cost. Most independents are working from a percentage they were told years ago. Recipe linked costing usually changes that number, and rarely in a comfortable direction.
Stopping mid service stockouts. Items go off sale automatically when stock hits its floor, which prevents the worst kind of apology.
Seeing where the exceptions are. Discounts, voids and comps in one short daily list is often the fastest money an owner finds.

Smallest gain

Multi outlet control. Central menu management and outlet comparison do nothing for you until you open a second location. They are there when you do.
Deep forecasting on day one. With no history loaded, the forecast has little to say for the first couple of months. It is worth switching on early so it starts learning, not because it will help immediately.

If you open a second outlet

Nothing gets migrated. The second location is added to the same account, inherits your menu and recipes, and starts reporting separately and together from its first day. That is the whole upgrade.

Practical questions

Cost, hardware and switching.

Can we use the computer and printer we already have?

In most cases yes. The counter runs in a browser, and standard thermal printers work over the local network or USB. Tell us your make and model before you commit and we will confirm rather than guess.

What do we do about our old data?

If your current system can export item level sales, we will import it so forecasting has history to work with. Where it cannot, we start clean and the forecast becomes useful after a couple of months of trading.

Is there a long contract?

Essential is a straightforward subscription. See Pricing for the terms in plain language, including what happens to your data if you leave.

What if our internet is unreliable?

Service continues offline and reconciles when the line returns. Aggregator orders and card authorisation genuinely need connectivity. The detail is on the Platform page.

Next service

Send us your menu card and we will have it running.

A photograph of the card is enough to start. We will build it, cost your top dishes and show you the closing screen for a service you already traded.