Changelog
Every change,
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What we shipped to RestaurantMate, from the first app in July 2025 to today.
Follow by RSSWhat we shipped to RestaurantMate, from the first app in July 2025 to today.
Follow by RSSDescribe an alert in your own words, for example a price change, an item delivered short or a day's overtime hours.
Draft event and vendor contracts from your own templates with an AI assistant, download them as PDFs, email them, and add events to the 7shifts calendar.
A Labor page with an overtime watch, a staffing heatmap by hour, people, timecards and a view for each person.
Open the agent from the sidebar and ask about your location; it can look up data from any page.
For vendor logins that use an authenticator app, store the setup key once.
Record bills from non-food vendors like utilities and repairs.
Coach suggests vendor switches and savings for each location, and a weekly report per location is emailed as a PDF.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Purchasing has a Price Sheets tab and an upload button for any invoice.
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.
The shop became the Order Guide.
Search a vendor's catalog live from any item and see what came back.
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.
Invoices, order guides and price sheets are read by our AI.
Each location gets its own shop of the items it buys, counts that feed the cart, vendor minimums and a receipts page.
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.
Search for a product and see results from each vendor side by side, with stock, deals and pack prices.
New connections for broadline and produce distributors, a bakery, a business warehouse club, an online wholesaler and a cash-and-carry, covering...
A report lines up the same items across your vendors, highlights the cheapest for each, counts which vendor wins most often, and exports to PDF.
Each restaurant gets its own AI agent that can read its data, look up vendor prices and help fill the cart.
Later retired: Later retired: the Telegram agent did not carry over to the new platform. Chat with your location's agent inside the app since October 2026.
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...
A guided checkout walks through each vendor in your cart, one step at a time, instead of a separate button per vendor.
Restaurants on SpotOn get their daily sales, menu and prices synced, with a one-time import of past sales.
When you connect a website vendor, its invoices are collected for you and read by our AI.
From your RestaurantMate cart, items are added straight into the cart on each vendor's website, starting with the large distributors and a warehouse club.
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.
Upload, view and organize PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets and images.
Later retired: Later retired: Files did not carry over to the new platform.
See what each menu item costs to make next to what it sells for, including POS modifiers like add bacon or extra cheese.
A Chrome extension loads your order list and adds each item to your warehouse club cart, with the pickup club already chosen.
Later retired: Later retired: items now go straight into each vendor's own cart, since January 2026.
Take a photo of the paper count sheet and RestaurantMate reads it into the audit, and any audit can be exported as a PDF.
Upload a photo or PDF of a delivery receipt; our AI reads the lines and records the delivery.
After a count, an order dialog suggests what to buy and from which vendor, then takes you to the cart.
A chat assistant answers questions and keeps past conversations.
Later retired: Later retired: replaced in February 2026 by a restaurant agent.
RestaurantMate signs in to your vendors' websites with your own logins, starting with a regional distributor, a national distributor and a warehouse...
Staff can say their counts out loud instead of typing them.
Later retired: Later retired: voice counting ended in December 2025.
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.