Every change,
newest first.

Each invoice line is checked against its own product as it is saved.

A COGS page (COGS is what your food costs you) shows food cost for every menu item from your invoice prices, including POS modifiers, with a target per...

Compare two periods of purchases and see whether spend changed because of price or quantity.

Each person builds their own dashboard from widgets, or describes it and lets our AI build it.

Counts open to your lists and recent counts, with past counts by day you can view, edit or shop from.

Give each person view, edit or full access per area of the app, with ready-made roles including one for staff who count and buy.

Each location gets its own free trial, with no card needed to start. Then RestaurantMate is $99 a month per location.

Each purchase shows where it stands, with shorts and substitutions marked.

Schedules and timecards from 7shifts sync into each location, signing in the same way a manager does.

A tool that splits tips across staff day by day, shows how every dollar was shared, refreshes every few hours and lets you approve each day.

Bulky search data moved out of the way, the order guide and counts load from cache first, and background scheduling does about seven times less work.

Unit prices come from the vendor's own pack and selling-unit data first, with plain pack math as the fallback, and prices you reviewed are kept across...

Credit memos, returns and deposits are recorded as credits.

New connections for beer, wine and spirits distributors and more foodservice suppliers, reading invoices from the vendor's own records where they...

Try RestaurantMate with sample data, one click from the website.

Every location of a restaurant group can share one RestaurantMate inbox address for invoices, price sheets and bills.

A location being set up opens to a welcome screen that asks a few questions first and shows what is happening.

The cart shows one card per vendor and checkout runs right on those cards.

Add items in the middle of a run, cart saves survive brief server hiccups, and a short checkout is recorded as partial, naming what the vendor kept.

A count in progress is no longer lost when we release an update, and pages that look up related records got faster.

A Mail page shows each location's vendor emails grouped by vendor, with images loaded safely, and sender rules live there too.

Each count is valued at the prices you actually paid at the time, and a new report shows inventory value for any date range.

Connect your own AI assistant through MCP, a standard way for AI apps to reach your data.

Later retired: Later retired: the approval page for changes was replaced by direct changes with undo in October 2026.

We brought existing restaurants onto the new platform with their recipes, receipts, counts, menu, sales and labor history, re-ran setup on the improved...

For vendors that publish order data, invoice lines are read from that data instead of the PDF.

When you ask for help, our support team can open your workspace in a clearly marked support session, and every session is logged.

A recipes page with POS categories and favorites, where the cost updates as you edit.

A reports hub with labor, sales, an owner overview and purchasing, each with drill-downs and favorites.

Later retired: Later retired: dashboards you build yourself replaced the reports hub in September 2026.

Start a shopping run from your latest count.

Each item card shows photos, each vendor's offer with pack options and deal badges, and price history.

Prices at your website vendors are refreshed on a nightly schedule.

The shop loads one area at a time and only fetches vendor details when you open them.

A new background worker handles vendor sign-in, price refresh, product search and invoice import, one job at a time per login.

Sales from Toast and SpotOn and timecards from Homebase import into each location.

Connect a mailbox and choose which senders' invoices, receipts and price sheets to import.

Owners decide which pages and locations each team member can open.

Each vendor connection from the earlier version was rebuilt on the new platform and tested end to end, with a nightly health check on each one.

Invoices, order guides and price sheets are read by our AI.

Fixed a case where checking out just one vendor could drop results without telling you.

Set each vendor's minimum in cases, units or dollars; the cart shows your progress and won't check out a vendor below it.

Later retired: Later retired: the cart now shows each minimum and leaves the choice to you.

See labor cost, hours, labor as a share of sales and sales per labor hour, with timecards, overtime hours and prime cost.

Checkout lives in a sidebar that stays open, lets you choose vendors, sends each vendor its part of the cart in parallel, and starts warming up while...

Create a vendor that only sends email; its invoices are picked up from your inbox.

Search for a product and see results from each vendor side by side, with stock, deals and pack prices.

Vendor jobs moved to a simpler dispatcher that tracks attempts and backs off, so one failing login no longer floods a vendor with retries.

Price checks now say whether an item is in stock, whether there is a promotion or volume discount, and when an item is sold by actual weight (catch...

New connections for broadline and produce distributors, a bakery, a business warehouse club, an online wholesaler and a cash-and-carry, covering...

The device starts up on its own, joins Wi-Fi through a setup page on your phone, prefers a wired connection and powers back on after an outage.

Each item now keeps its unit conversions, for example how many pounds are in a case, so unit prices are calculated the same way every time instead of...

If a vendor's cart fails, the Purchasing Assistant retries automatically, up to three times, and works in a small window instead of blocking the page.

Staff pick the vendor and the order, then mark each item received, missing or damaged with notes and photos.

The Toast import brings in menu modifiers, and past orders were re-imported with them, so older sales count toward food cost too.

Deliveries got search, filters and bulk actions, and the menu pricing page shows sales by hour with recipes editable in place.

Create custom vendors for suppliers we don't connect to yet.

Upload your recipe documents and the Recipe Wizard pulls out each recipe, matches the ingredients to your inventory and links it to the menu item it...

Staff get their own counting screen with keyboard navigation, units filled in for zero counts, and suggestions for items they may have missed.

A guided checkout walks through each vendor in your cart, one step at a time, instead of a separate button per vendor.

Vendors without a shopping website can be added by uploading their price sheet.

Connect your email so vendor messages and attachments show up in RestaurantMate.

A desktop app let owners sign in to vendor websites on their own computer so RestaurantMate could work with those vendors.

Later retired: Later retired: the device in the restaurant took over this job in April 2026.

A home dashboard shows key numbers and quick actions, with charts of what you spent on deliveries and what you sold over any date range.

See what each menu item costs to make next to what it sells for, including POS modifiers like add bacon or extra cheese.

The order dialog now prepares its suggestions on our server and shows what it is working on, so you can keep using the app.

RestaurantMate got a new logo and colors and a new public website, and announced its backing from Redbud VC.

A chat assistant answers questions and keeps past conversations.

Later retired: Later retired: replaced in February 2026 by a restaurant agent.

Add items to a cart grouped by vendor.

Set up your inventory and sort it into categories and sub-categories you can drag to reorder.