The independent directory of restaurant inventory software

Sortly is a general-purpose visual inventory management app used across many industries, including food service, retail, healthcare and construction. For restaurants it offers photo-based item tracking, barcode/QR scanning, stock counts and low-stock alerts, but it is not a restaurant-specific tool and lacks recipe costing or POS-driven depletion.

Culistock is an AI-powered restaurant operations platform that unifies inventory, ordering and invoice approvals, staff scheduling and compliance behind an AI copilot. It is aimed at independent and growing multi-location operators who want an all-in-one ops tool rather than separate point solutions.

MarginEdge is an all-in-one restaurant back-office and AP-automation platform that digitizes invoices, pays bills, tracks real-time food cost and runs inventory and recipe analysis. It is built for independent and small multi-unit full-service restaurants that want to eliminate manual data entry and close their books faster.

Restaurant365 is a cloud-based restaurant management platform that combines accounting, inventory and purchasing, workforce management, and payroll/HR in one system. It is built for full-service restaurants, multi-unit groups, and franchises that want to replace QuickBooks and disconnected back-office tools with a restaurant-specific ERP.

Crunchtime is an enterprise restaurant operations platform covering inventory, food and labor cost control, supply chain, scheduling, learning/development and operations execution. It is built for large multi-unit and franchise brands and is used by chains such as Chipotle, Five Guys, Dunkin' and Domino's.

MarketMan is a cloud-based restaurant inventory, purchasing and food-cost management platform that automates ordering, invoice scanning, vendor management and recipe costing. It serves independent restaurants through multi-unit groups, caterers and hotels that want tighter control over COGS and supplier spend.

Apicbase is a back-of-house F&B management platform for multi-site restaurants, hotels and ghost kitchens, unifying menu engineering, recipe costing, inventory, procurement and production planning. It is built for operators who need data-driven food-cost control across many outlets.

Craftable (formerly Bevager/Foodager) is a hospitality back-office platform connecting purchasing, inventory, recipe/menu costing, sales and accounting for restaurants, bars and hotels. Its beverage-focused Bevager and food-focused Foodager modules make it a strong fit for beverage-heavy and multi-unit operators.

meez is a chef-built recipe management and food-costing platform that helps culinary teams create, organize, scale and cost recipes and engineer menus. It is aimed at chefs, restaurant owners and multi-unit culinary teams that want standardized recipes and accurate plate costs.

Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ) is an AI-powered accounts-payable automation platform built first for restaurants and hospitality, handling invoice capture, GL coding, approval routing and payments via check, ACH or virtual card. It is aimed at multi-location operators and finance teams that want to automate AP and earn cashback on spend.

Supy is a back-of-house operating system for multi-branch restaurant groups, combining procurement, inventory management and business intelligence (theoretical-vs-actual COGS, menu engineering). Built for multi-location F&B operators, it integrates with 50+ POS systems and is used by thousands of restaurants across 30+ countries.

Stampli is an AI-powered accounts-payable automation and procure-to-pay platform that centralizes invoice capture, coding, approvals, communication and payments. It serves businesses across industries-with a dedicated food & beverage practice and restaurant customers-that want to automate AP without replacing their accounting/ERP system.

Restroworks (formerly Posist) is a cloud restaurant management platform with an inventory and back-of-house module covering stock counts, recipe management, supply chain and central-kitchen control, alongside POS, kitchen and analytics suites. It is built for multi-format and enterprise restaurant chains and is used by 25,000+ restaurants worldwide.

ChefMod is a restaurant purchasing, recipe and order-management platform with built-in group purchasing for independent and full-service restaurants. It combines procurement, price management, AP automation and recipe costing with hands-on member services.

SynergySuite is a modular, all-in-one restaurant back-office platform covering inventory, purchasing, recipe costing, food safety/HACCP, scheduling/labor, cash management, HR and business intelligence. It is built for multi-unit restaurant chains and growing regional brands that want a single system to control food and labor costs at scale.

Lineup.ai is AI-powered restaurant forecasting and scheduling software that predicts sales, labor demand and menu-item volumes using internal data plus external signals like weather, events and holidays. It is built for fast-casual and quick-service operators who want accurate forecasts to control labor cost and reduce prep waste. Lineup.ai is now part of the TimeForge labor-management suite.

Black Box Intelligence (formerly TDn2K) is a restaurant data, benchmarking and analytics platform that combines financial, workforce and guest intelligence with the industry's Restaurant Performance Network. It serves large restaurant brands and multi-unit operators that need competitive benchmarking against peer companies.

Lightspeed Restaurant is a cloud-based hospitality POS with built-in inventory management, ordering, payments, online ordering and analytics. It suits full-service and quick-service restaurants and small-to-mid multi-location groups that want POS and back-of-house inventory in a single platform.

Oracle MICROS Simphony is an enterprise cloud POS and restaurant management platform for full-service, quick-service and hospitality groups, with built-in inventory, kitchen display, reporting and 200+ integrations. It targets large chains, hotels and multi-location operators that need scale and deep back-office analytics.

Orbisk is an automated food-waste monitoring system for professional kitchens: a plug-and-play camera-and-scale device ("Orbi") uses AI image recognition to identify and weigh discarded food, feeding dashboards that help kitchens cut waste and report on cost and CO2. It is aimed at restaurants, hotels and multi-site hospitality groups with sustainability and food-cost goals.

Toast is an Android-based, cloud restaurant POS and management platform whose inventory and food-cost capabilities are delivered largely through xtraCHEF by Toast, covering invoice automation, recipe costing, inventory counts and variance. This listing scores Toast's inventory/food-cost capability within its broader POS suite, not the POS hardware itself.

Wisk.ai is an AI-driven inventory and bar/beverage management platform for bars, restaurants and hotels, combining mobile counting, invoice OCR, recipe costing and POS-synced depletion. It is built for beverage-heavy operations that want tight pour-cost and COGS control.

Yooz is a cloud-based purchase-to-pay and accounts-payable automation platform that uses AI, OCR and RPA to capture, code, approve and pay invoices. It serves organizations of all sizes—including restaurants and multi-unit operators—that want to automate AP and reduce manual invoice handling.

Optimum Control (by TracRite Software) is a desktop and mobile restaurant inventory and food-cost management system covering inventory counts, recipe costing, purchasing and 70+ reports. It is aimed at independent restaurants, bars and small multi-unit operators that want detailed ideal-vs-actual cost control. TracRite was acquired by Buyers Edge Platform in 2021.

Fourth is a hospitality operations platform best known for HotSchedules workforce management, with an inventory and back-office suite (purchasing, recipe/menu engineering, production, food cost and the Adaco hotel inventory product). It is aimed at multi-unit restaurants and hotels that want labor and inventory in one ecosystem.

Tenzo is a cloud-native, AI-powered restaurant analytics and sales-forecasting platform that aggregates POS, labor, inventory, reviews and reservations data into one dashboard. It is built for multi-site operators, chains, hotels and dark kitchens that want real-time reporting, benchmarking and demand forecasting across locations.

Back Office is a restaurant back-office and AP-automation platform from Buyers Edge Platform that unifies food-cost management, inventory, recipe costing, accounting, AP automation and payroll. It is powered by Buyers Edge Platform's purchasing data and aimed at multi-location and franchise restaurant operators.

Buyers Edge Platform is a foodservice group purchasing organization (GPO) and supply-chain technology company that gives restaurants access to manufacturer rebates, negotiated pricing and purchasing data. Members tap 175,000+ rebated items and 350+ manufacturer contracts via free GPO membership.

Yellow Dog Software is a back-office inventory management platform for food & beverage, retail and concessions in hospitality and sports venues. It is built for resorts, casinos, clubs, stadiums and restaurants that need deep multi-outlet inventory, recipe costing and procurement across hundreds of POS and vendor integrations.

BILL (formerly Bill.com) is a financial-operations platform that automates accounts payable and receivable-capturing invoices, routing approvals and executing payments-plus spend and expense management. It is a widely used general AP/AR tool that restaurants and multi-unit operators adopt to digitize bill pay and vendor payments.

Petpooja is a restaurant POS and management platform with built-in inventory tracking that auto-deducts raw materials from sales, monitors consumption and sends low-stock alerts, alongside billing, CRM, a central-kitchen module and online-order integrations. It is aimed at small and mid-size restaurants, primarily in India, the UAE and South Africa.

Sapaad is a cloud restaurant POS and management system with restaurant-optimized inventory, recipe management and food costing, plus KDS, online ordering and delivery-platform integration. It is used by 15,000+ restaurants globally and is especially popular with cafes, QSRs and multi-outlet operators in the Middle East and Asia.

Restoke is an AI-powered back-of-house management platform that connects to your POS to automate food costing, inventory, ordering, prep and team management for restaurants. It is built for independent and multi-site hospitality operators who want a real-time COGS and inventory 'AI restaurant manager'.

Kitchen CUT is a cloud F&B management platform for menu engineering, recipe costing, inventory, procurement and allergen/nutrition compliance. It is built by chefs for hospitality operators—hotels, restaurants, pubs/bars, QSRs and leisure venues—that want real-time food-cost control and multi-site visibility.

Recipe Cost Calculator (RCC) is web software for costing recipes, tracking ingredient prices and pricing menus, with optional planning, inventory and FDA-compliant nutrition labels. It is built for restaurants, bakeries, caterers and food producers that want accurate food costs and margins without enterprise complexity.

Choco is an AI-powered ordering and supplier-communication platform that lets restaurants place and manage orders with all of their distributors in one app. It is free for restaurants and pairs with a paid distributor-facing product that automates order intake; it is built for operators who want to cut ordering errors and time spent on supplier communication.

LeanPath is a food-waste prevention platform pairing in-kitchen smart trackers (scale, camera, touchscreen with AI auto-classification) with cloud analytics and coaching. It serves enterprise and high-volume foodservice operators such as hotels, healthcare, universities and contract caterers aiming to cut food waste 50%+.

Orca Inventory is a restaurant inventory and ordering platform built by operators with 20+ years of restaurant experience, offering offline counts, one-click ordering, real-time recipe costing and 80+ POS/distributor/accounting integrations. It targets independent and mid-size restaurants and small chains that want straightforward food-cost control with unlimited users.

Orca Inventory is a restaurant inventory and ordering platform built by operators with 20+ years of restaurant experience, offering offline counts, one-click ordering, real-time recipe costing and 80+ POS/distributor/accounting integrations. It targets independent and mid-size restaurants and small chains that want straightforward food-cost control with unlimited users.

BirchStreet is a cloud procure-to-pay and hospitality operations platform purpose-built for the hospitality industry, covering eProcurement, AP automation, inventory and recipe management across properties. It is aimed at hotels, resorts, casinos, restaurant groups and clubs that need enterprise-grade purchasing and spend control across a large supplier network.

Order.co (formerly Negotiatus) is a B2B procure-to-pay and spend-management platform that centralizes purchasing across tens of thousands of vendors, with AP automation and budget controls. It serves multi-location businesses-including hospitality, hotels and restaurants-that want to consolidate ordering, approvals and invoice payment in one place.

Dext (formerly Receipt Bank) is bookkeeping-automation software that captures receipts, invoices and bank statements, extracts the data and syncs it to accounting systems. It is a general small-business and accountant tool used by restaurants and hospitality operators to digitize supplier invoices and feed their accounting and AP workflows.

Lavu is an iPad-based restaurant POS system with built-in back-of-house tools, including ingredient-level inventory tracking, low-stock alerts and recipe/menu management. It is aimed at small and mid-sized full-service and quick-service restaurants, bars and cafes that want POS plus inventory in one system.

BevSpot is cloud-based food and beverage inventory, ordering and invoicing software for bars, restaurants and hospitality groups, with POS-synced sales data, recipe/menu costing and AI invoice digitization. It is built for single- and multi-location operators who want faster counts and tighter pour-cost control without spreadsheets.

Avero (Avero Slingshot) is a hospitality business-intelligence platform that pulls POS data and turns it into insights on sales, labor, menu performance, server productivity and loss prevention. It is built for full-service restaurants, restaurant groups, hotels and casino F&B that want above-store reporting and analytics rather than a full back-office suite.

Parsley is a cloud-based recipe management, costing and food-production platform for chefs and culinary operators. It is built for restaurants, caterers, prepared-meal companies, grocers and corporate/university dining that want to cost recipes, generate nutrition facts and allergen labels, and plan production.

Galley Solutions is a cloud Culinary Resource Planning (CRP) platform that centralizes recipe management, menu planning, food costing, inventory and automated ordering for foodservice operations. It is aimed at growing and enterprise food businesses—caterers, ghost kitchens, multi-unit restaurants and food manufacturers—that want their recipe and food data in one system.

BlueCart is a B2B wholesale ordering and eCommerce platform connecting food & beverage suppliers with restaurants and other buyers for streamlined ordering, order management and invoicing. Restaurants use it to place and track orders across many suppliers from one app.

GOFRUGAL (a Zoho company) is an ERP/POS platform for retail, restaurant and distribution businesses, with restaurant modules covering billing/POS, recipe and food costing, inventory, and central-kitchen management. It targets restaurant chains and multi-outlet operators, primarily in India and emerging markets.

Orderly (now "Orderly by Back Office") is a data-driven food-cost management tool that tracks food spend and COGS without manual invoice entry or inventory counts, using automated invoice capture and a Restaurant Food Index for supplier price comparison. It is aimed at independent restaurants, bars and multi-unit operators that want lighter-weight cost visibility.

RecipeCosting.com (by Kitchen Porter Tech) is a modular, all-in-one restaurant management system that starts with recipe and menu costing and scales up to inventory, purchasing, POS integrations, online ordering and nutrition labels. It is aimed at independent restaurants and food businesses that want to grow into a full back-office suite affordably.

reciProfity is cloud-based food-costing, recipe-costing and inventory software with Book of Yields data for 1,000+ ingredients, automatic price-creep alerts and USDA nutrition data. It is aimed at independent restaurants, caterers, prepared-food retailers and multi-unit operators focused on accurate plate costs and margins.

TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant POS and management platform with optional inventory management, recipe/menu tracking and vendor management delivered as an add-on to its POS. This listing scores TouchBistro's inventory capability within its POS suite; it is aimed primarily at full-service and single-location restaurants.

Sculpture Hospitality (formerly Bevinco) pairs bar and restaurant inventory software with local inventory experts to control liquor and food costs, reduce shrinkage and improve margins. It is built for bars, nightclubs and full-service restaurants that want technology plus hands-on, managed inventory service.

ChefTec, from Culinary Software Services, is a long-running recipe-costing, inventory-control and purchasing system for chefs and foodservice operators. Sold as desktop/cloud tiers (Basic, Plus, Ultra), it suits independent restaurants, caterers, hotels and institutional kitchens that want accurate recipe costing and inventory tracking.

Square for Restaurants is a restaurant POS from Block, Inc. with built-in inventory tracking, ingredient-level stock and cost tracking, vendor profiles and purchase orders. This listing scores Square's inventory capability within its POS suite; it is aimed at small restaurants, cafes, quick-service and food trucks.

Nory is an AI-powered restaurant operating system that unifies demand forecasting, labour scheduling and inventory/COGS management for multi-unit operators. It is built for growing restaurant groups that want to control prime cost (labour plus cost of goods) and cut waste from a single platform.

Nutritics is a food-data management platform for nutrition analysis, recipe costing, allergen and menu labelling, and meal planning. It serves foodservice caterers, food manufacturers, healthcare, education and elite sport that need accurate nutrition, allergen and cost data from a 1.5M-item food database.

MenuSano is nutrition-analysis, labelling and recipe-costing software for food service, food manufacturing, healthcare and education. It lets operators input recipes and instantly see nutrition breakdowns, generate compliant labels (Canadian/USDA/UK) and cost recipes without lab testing.

Too Good To Go is the world's largest surplus-food marketplace, where restaurants, bakeries, grocers and other food businesses sell unsold food to consumers as discounted 'Surprise Bags' via its app. For operators it functions as a food-waste-reduction and revenue-recovery channel, and it offers a separate Platform/AI product for larger retailers to forecast and manage surplus across stores.

Winnow is an AI-powered food-waste prevention system for commercial kitchens that uses computer vision to automatically recognize and record waste as it is discarded. It is built for high-volume operations such as hotels, contract caterers, casinos and cruise lines that want to cut food cost and waste at scale.

Vroozi is an AI-powered procure-to-pay and business spend-management platform (SpendTech) that digitizes purchasing, vendor invoice processing and payments. It serves mid-market and enterprise organizations across industries-including hospitality and multi-unit operators-that want to automate procurement and AP rather than buy a restaurant-specific tool.

Backbar is a mobile-first bar and restaurant inventory app that lets teams count stock collaboratively across devices, build and cost cocktail/food recipes, and send single-tap orders to distributors. It is best known for a free-forever plan aimed at independent bars and restaurants replacing spreadsheets.

Bar-i is a scale-based liquor inventory system for bars and restaurants that weighs open bottles to 0.1 oz precision and reconciles consumption against POS sales to expose variance and shrinkage. It is offered as self-serve software or a managed 'concierge' service with a dedicated expert who runs counts and delivers weekly analysis.

jalebi.io is an inventory-first restaurant operating system that combines POS, inventory, recipe/menu management, ordering and analytics in one cloud platform. Built by operators, it targets cafes, full-service restaurants and multi-location/cloud-kitchen brands, primarily in the UAE, GCC and South Asia.

MealSuite is an all-in-one foodservice-management platform for senior living and healthcare operators, spanning menu and recipe management, procurement, inventory, kitchen production and point of sale. It is built for the continuum of care-skilled nursing, assisted and independent living, CCRCs and acute care-rather than mainstream commercial restaurants.

Partender is a fast bar-inventory app that builds a visual blueprint of your bar so staff can tap and swipe bottle levels to complete a full physical count in about 15 minutes. It generates depletion analytics, variance reports and automated, distributor-split purchase orders for bars, restaurants and hotels.

Mirus is a restaurant data-management and reporting platform that warehouses data from POS and other systems and lets above-store teams build custom reports, dashboards and alerts without SQL or spreadsheets. It is built for multi-unit restaurant companies that need flexible, enterprise-grade above-store reporting and data integration.

5-Out is an AI and machine-learning forecasting platform for restaurants that predicts sales and then recommends labor schedules, purchasing and prep to maximize profitability. It is built for full-service, quick-service, fine-dining and ghost-kitchen operators who want automated, demand-driven decisions with minimal manual effort.

KITRO is an AI-powered food-waste tracking solution for commercial kitchens that uses a camera-and-scale device (TARE) to automatically photograph, weigh and classify food as it is thrown away. It is built for hotels, restaurants, canteens, hospitals and care homes that want to cut food cost and waste without adding manual logging work for staff.

Cut+Dry is a B2B e-commerce platform for foodservice distributors that gives their restaurant customers online ordering, digital payments and delivery tracking. Built by an ex-Sysco team, it is aimed at independent broadline, produce, protein, specialty and beverage distributors who want to digitize ordering and get paid faster.

Pepper is an AI-powered e-commerce and ordering platform for independent food distributors, letting them launch branded apps and websites where restaurant customers shop, order and pay. Built by ex-Uber Eats leaders, it also automates inbound order entry from texts, emails and voicemails and equips sales reps with AI tools.

xtraCHEF by Toast is restaurant AP-automation and food-cost software that digitizes vendor invoices with AI line-item capture and feeds cost, recipe and inventory data back to operators. It is aimed at restaurants—especially Toast POS users—that want to automate invoice processing and track food cost.

Growzer is a cloud hospitality-management platform for ordering, inventory/stock control, food-cost management and invoice handling. Based in Belgium, it is built for restaurants, caterers, hotels and their suppliers that want to digitize supplier ordering and control food cost.

Positive Carbon is an automated food-waste monitoring solution for hospitality kitchens that uses an AI- and LiDAR-based sensor (Scrappy) to identify and measure food as it is discarded. It is built for hotels, restaurants, stadiums, workplace canteens and hospitals that want detailed waste reporting without adding manual work for kitchen staff.

Goodr is a US technology-and-logistics company that helps restaurants, stadiums, offices, hospitals and grocers divert surplus food from landfill by recovering edible food for donation and recycling inedible food. Its platform tracks every pickup with real-time impact reporting and provides tax-deduction documentation for the donated food.

FoodNotify is a cloud F&B management platform for recipe management, food costing, ordering, inventory and FIC/allergen labelling across multiple locations. It is aimed at restaurants, cafes, hotels, catering and foodservice operators—especially multi-site businesses—that want standardized recipes and automatic cost and allergen data.

Phenix is a French anti-waste company offering technology and services that help food businesses redirect unsold stock away from the bin. Its Phenix Pro tools let supermarkets, producers and foodservice operators donate surplus to charities, sell discounted baskets to consumers via the Phenix app, manage expiry dates and route inedible waste to animal feed or composting.

Zip Inventory is a cloud and mobile inventory-management app for the foodservice industry, part of the Hubworks/Altametrics suite. It is built for restaurants and chains that want faster shelf-to-sheet counts, recipe-based ingredient tracking, waste control and simpler vendor ordering.

ezChef (EZchef) is a Microsoft Excel-based, Windows-only restaurant program for food and beverage inventory, fully costed menu items and sub-recipes, and menu engineering analysis. It is built for budget-conscious independent restaurants and bars that prefer a one-time purchase over a subscription.

SimpleOrder was an all-in-one restaurant back-of-house and inventory platform (automatic inventory, online purchasing, real-time food costing, POS integration). It no longer exists as a standalone product: it was acquired by Upserve in 2018 and rebranded Upserve Inventory, Upserve was acquired by Lightspeed in 2020, and the U.S. hospitality line was divested to Skyview Equity in 2026.