"A menu of only app-etizers."
But, if you whisk in a Kitchen and Business Manager; carefully fold in an AI agent, and you get...
Salamander Restaurant Costing.
Built by people who've worked the line, managed the books, and coded the backend. Not an app by someone who doesn't even know that a salamander is a broiler.
Most costing apps are built by developers who've never even washed a dish. They have to make assumptions. They have to guess at workflows. They think "86" is just a number. Salamander Restaurant Costing is not that app.
We didn't guess.
Salamander Restaurant Costing was born in a real kitchen, by someone who's done the math on a napkin at 11 PM on a Friday. Every feature comes from a real problem — the kind you only know if you've been there.
So, we made sure this recipe contained a Generous Amount of IT know-how, decades of Business Management and an AI agent that never forgets a food cost formula.
Salamander Restaurant Costing is a true Salamander. Salamanders:
- are 🦎 Regenerative — Salamander Restaurant Costing catches cost leaks before they bleed you dry
- are 🦎 Amphibious — Salamander Restaurant Costing works on the kitchen floor, in your bar, and in the office
- have 🦎 Keen eyesight — Salamander Restaurant Costing spots poor margins and similar problems before they hurt
- are 🦎 Resilient — Salamander Restaurant Costing scales with your business; and we're adding new useful features all the time
- are an 🦎 Indicator species — Salamander Restaurant Costing tells you the true health of your restaurant
Built For Restaurants,
Not Just Written About Them
All the Features. One Plugin.
No tiers. No paywalls. Everything you need to manage your kitchen is unlocked from day one.
Ingredients
✓ Pre-loadable list of 499 common kitchen ingredients ✓ Metric and Imperial conversions handled automatically ✓ Track price history per ingredient ✓ Assign default storage area for fast inventory taking ✓ Link to default supplier ✓ Input package sizing and price, auto-calculates base unit costs ✓ Waste and yield percentage factor included ✓ 15 built-in nutritional value inputsRecipes
✓ Infinite sub-recipe nesting (sauce in a dish in a platter) ✓ Dynamic plate costing updating in real-time ✓ Categorize by menu type (Appetizers, Mains, Salads, etc.) ✓ Drag-and-drop reordering of recipe ingredients ✓ Add method / instructions per ingredient ✓ Menu price input auto-calculates margins ✓ Add labour to food costs ✓ Add photo — prints on recipe sheet ✓ Print or save as PDF ✓ Deactivate/reactivate recipes (archive, don't delete)Inventory
✓ New inventory populates from live ingredient list ✓ Mobile-optimized for phone use on the floor ✓ Sorted by storage area ✓ Toggle between Inventory and Prep views ✓ Prep list printable and emailablePrinting & Ordering
✓ Print ingredient list grouped by supplier ✓ Print for each supplier separately ✓ Email orders directly to suppliers ✓ Print "Not Emailed" order list to take shoppingSettings
✓ Add/edit suppliers for menu item ordering ✓ Add/edit/sort areas for inventory layout ✓ Manage users with role-based access ✓ Display settings — dark/light mode ✓ Show/hide nutritional info globally ✓ Backup and restore your dataReady to Take Control of Your Food Costs?
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* This is a fully operational demo includes with a 50 ingredient / 10 recipe cap for your testing purposes.