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Where thin margins meet daily counts — and win

Stores that issue on the record, bars that reconcile nightly to the shot, and a receiving bay that defends the margin. Recipe cards are not something we hold — issues, counts and variance per outlet are, and that is where most of the leak actually is.

Sound familiar?

If any of these ring true, you are exactly who this was built for.

Food cost as a monthly autopsy

The percentage arrives with the accounts, weeks late, undecomposable — and always higher than budget.

The bar that loses bottles

Dense value, portable form, convivial supervision — two bottles a night walking is a salary a month.

The receiving bay signature

Invoiced weight and delivered weight part ways at 5–8% on produce and protein, unweighed.

Menus priced by the competitor

Nobody knows what the burger costs to make this week — so nobody knows which dishes earn and which quietly don't.

F&B cost control — what this does and does not do

Running in the product now

  • A locked main store with recorded issues to each outlet — kitchen, bar, housekeeping — so consumption per outlet is a number with a person and a time on it rather than a monthly inference.
  • Real ingredient cost, kept current. Every item carries its true purchase cost including landed cost on imports, so the prices your dish costings are built from are the prices you actually paid.
  • Receiving by weight against the order, with short and rejected deliveries refused at the door and recorded, which is where produce and protein margin is usually lost.
  • Blind counts with valued variance, nightly for the dangerous items and full counts on your own cycle.
  • Bar reconciliation and shift closes — cash and M-Pesa, with voids and comps carrying a reason and an approver.
  • eTIMS-compliant POS, with transmissions queued and retried if KRA is unreachable. Selling itself needs a connection — the till does not trade offline on either client.

Not built — and central enough that you should decide on it now

  • There is no recipe or bill of materials. Three kilos of beef leave the store as three kilos of beef; they never become forty portions of stew in the system's view. No recipe card, no version, no yield.
  • No theoretical food cost and no portion variance. What the menu should have consumed cannot be computed here, so the gap between that and what the store issued is arithmetic you do on a spreadsheet.
  • A sale does not decrement ingredients. The POS reduces the item sold. Selling a burger does not reduce mince, buns and cheese, because nothing links them.
  • No menu engineering output — margin per dish ranked into a four-box grid is a report you build from your own costings, not one the product produces.

What we would decline, and would rather say now

  • We will not build a property management system. No rooms, rates, bookings or folios. This is the stores, procurement and POS side of a hospitality business, not the front desk — and a PMS is a different product with different users, sold to a different buyer. A thin one bolted onto an operations platform would lose you bookings, which is a worse outcome than not having one.
  • We will not be your channel manager. Rates and availability across OTAs are a revenue-management discipline with money riding on latency we do not control. We will take the revenue once it is earned and cost the food that produced it.

The four items in the middle column are absences rather than positions, and recipe-and-yield is the one most hospitality buyers should ask about first — it is what turns three kilos of beef into forty portions in the system's view. All four are commissionable now on the same terms as everything else here: a written specification, a timeline and a price, before any money moves. The evidence that this is a real offer rather than a sales line is Kenya, where the eTIMS transmission and the maintained statutory payroll engine were both built exactly this way. We will not name a date on this page, and we will name one in a quote.

The honest summary is that we close the leak and you do the costing. Store discipline, receiving by weight and nightly counts address where the food actually disappears, and for most Kenyan kitchens that is the larger number by a wide margin. But if theoretical-versus-actual food cost per dish is the specific thing you are buying, that is the one thing on this page we do not do, and you should weigh it before a demo rather than after. Say so early and we will tell you straight whether to buy elsewhere.

How teams get started

1

Lock the store

Main store on record, issues to outlets — the single highest-leverage change in hospitality stock.

2

Cost the core menu by hand, once

The twenty dishes that drive 80% of sales get costed from real ingredient prices on a sheet you keep, and re-checked quarterly. The system gives you the prices and the issue variance; the recipe arithmetic is yours.

3

Close nightly

Bar counts, shift reconciliation, and the dangerous-items count — fifteen minutes that hold the month.

Questions we are asked here

Frequently asked questions

Can it run multiple outlets — restaurant, bars, banqueting, housekeeping?

Yes — each outlet is its own stock location with its own issues, sales, and variance, rolling up to one F&B picture. Banqueting works as event-based issuing: provisioned against the function sheet, returns counted back, variance closed per event.

Does the POS handle eTIMS for restaurant billing?

Yes — compliant receipts come from the ordinary billing flow, including bill splits, voids, and comps (with reasons and approvers), and eTIMS transmissions are queued and retried if KRA is unreachable. One correction worth making here, because this answer used to say otherwise: **the till does not keep selling through a connectivity drop.** Selling needs a connection on both the web app and mobile. What is queued is the transmission to KRA, not the sale.

We have a working POS already. Can we start with just the stores?

Yes, and it is the right place to start — store control, issues per outlet and nightly counts deliver most of the food-cost visibility on their own, with sales imported for reconciliation. Be clear on one thing: recipe costing is not part of it. There is no recipe or bill of materials in the product, so theoretical food cost and portion yield are calculations you run on your own sheet from the issue figures we do record. Full POS integration deepens the reconciliation later; the store lock and the nightly counts are where the money is.

How disruptive is go-live for a running kitchen?

It is timed to a stocktake: the store opens on counted numbers, issues start that morning, and the kitchen's only new habit is requisitioning instead of walking in. That is the whole change, and it is a smaller one than most kitchens fear. Your dish costings stay wherever they are today — we do not import or hold them — so nothing has to be rebuilt to go live.

Bring one week of your F&B

One store, one kitchen, one bar — issues, per-outlet variance and nightly counts running on your own suppliers. Bring your dish costings too, and we will be straight about which half of the arithmetic we do.