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Restaurants & cafés

Restaurant management software that connects the POS to everything else

Most restaurants have a POS that works and knows nothing. It takes the order and has no opinion about what left the store to fulfil it. Restaurant management software worth building connects the sale to the recipe, the recipe to stock, stock to purchasing, and all of it to what you’re paying staff.

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How this usually runs today

  • A POS that reports sales and nothing else
  • Stock counted weekly, and the variance explained away
  • Purchase orders sent over WhatsApp, prices agreed verbally
  • Recipe costs calculated once, when the menu was written
  • Shifts planned in a group chat and changed the same way
  • Multiple outlets reporting in different formats

What we’d build

  • Orders

    Dine-in, takeaway and delivery through one flow.

  • Recipes and costing

    What each dish consumes and what it actually costs today.

  • Stock

    Depleted by what was sold, so variance means something.

  • Purchasing

    Orders to suppliers, prices, deliveries and what was short.

  • Multi-outlet

    The same menu and rules across branches, with per-branch reporting.

  • Staff and shifts

    Rosters, attendance, and the hours that feed payroll.

  • Reporting

    Margin by dish and by outlet, not just revenue.

The parts that are harder than they look

  1. 01

    Recipe depletion breaks on the real menu.

    Modifiers, sets, half portions, substitutions and staff meals all consume stock differently. A depletion model that only handles a plain menu item will be wrong from day one and quietly stay wrong.

  2. 02

    Wastage and variance need to be first-class, not an afterthought.

    Spoilage, breakage, comps and staff meals are where the numbers go. If the system has no honest place to record them, they become "variance" and stop being useful.

  3. 03

    Delivery platforms fragment the picture.

    Different commission structures, different menus, different reporting, and none of it in your POS. Consolidating it is most of the value and most of the work.

  4. 04

    Multi-outlet means deciding what’s shared and what’s local.

    Menu, pricing, promotions, suppliers and staff can each be central or per-branch, and the answer differs by business. Getting this wrong makes the system unusable at outlet three.

Proof

We haven’t published a project in this sector yet.

What we have done is build an operations platform that handles rosters, attendance, commission and statutory payroll for a real business — the same problems in a different setting.

That case study is here.

See the Operiq case study

FAQ

Questions we get asked

  1. 01

    Can it work with the POS we already have?

    Often, if the POS offers a way to get sales data out. That is usually the cheapest starting point: keep the terminal your staff already know, and build the stock, costing and purchasing that it was never going to do.

  2. 02

    Can it handle multiple outlets with different menus?

    Yes, and deciding what is shared and what is per-outlet is one of the first conversations we would have. Menu, pricing, promotions and suppliers can each be central or local, and the right answer differs by business.

  3. 03

    Does it connect to delivery platforms?

    Where a platform provides a way in, yes. Where it does not, the honest answer is that some reconciliation stays manual, and we would tell you which parts before you commit rather than after.

  4. 04

    Can it tell us the actual margin on each dish?

    That is the point of connecting recipes to purchasing. Margin is only real if the recipe cost updates when your supplier prices move, rather than staying at what it was when the menu was written.

  5. 05

    What about staff scheduling and payroll?

    Rosters, attendance and the hours that feed payroll are part of the same system — this is the part we have already built in production for another sector.

Tell us where the numbers stop matching.

What your POS does, how stock is counted, and what happens when a supplier price changes. That is enough to tell you what is worth building.

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