A direction for restaurant owners who know the work happens behind the counter, before the doors open, and after they close. Software that respects the staff side — bookings, prep, supplier flow, rota.
Same method, different shape. Pick the venue closest to yours — each has a deep page with the sector-specific stack, proof, and how we measure.
Most software gets pointed at the customer. We build the staff side too — the prep list, the rota, the supplier order, the closing report. The work the customer never sees.
Online bookings with deposit hold, walk-in waitlist, special-event capacity. The host knows what's happening at 7pm before service starts.
Prep list generated from tonight's bookings + walk-in projection. Pass-side ticketing routes to the right station. Less guessing, less waste.
Stock-on-hand tied to bookings — system knows what'll be needed by Saturday and orders Wednesday. Less waste, fewer 11pm supplier calls.
Rota built from forecasted covers, drag-to-assign shifts, swap requests handled in-app. Payroll exports clean. Owner stops doing it on the train home.
Live P&L, weekly cash position, per-cover margin. The owner sees what tonight did before the kitchen closes, not next quarter when the accountant calls.
Recipes, allergens, supplier contacts, training, opening checklists — searchable from the pass, the office, or the new starter's phone on day one.
A neighbourhood restaurant tracked stock on a clipboard, ordered on intuition, threw away £400 of fresh stock weekly. The owner did supplier calls at 11pm. Two-week build: stock-on-hand tracker tied to bookings, automated supplier alerts, prep-list generator. Six months in: waste down 78%, four hours of owner admin saved per week, eighteen thousand pounds margin recovered.
How we measure: waste tracked daily by the kitchen lead against the new prep-list output (n = 84 days); owner-admin time logged via the operator's diary; baseline drawn from the prior 12-week clipboard log.
If your work isn't exactly this, the nearest sectors share the rhythm. Or browse every industry we build for.
Bring the P&L, the booking diary, the supplier list. We sketch the back room from there.