Food and Hospitality
Restaurants / Cafe / Catering
Table and counter billing, kitchen coordination, recipe-level consumption and wastage control for food service.
Also covers: Restaurant · Cafe · Catering · Food Service · Hotel Restaurant
About this industry
Food service turns raw ingredients into dishes several times an hour, under time pressure, with perishable inputs. Margin depends on portion consistency and wastage control, both of which are invisible without recipe-level consumption tracking. Peak-hour billing must be fast enough not to hold up the floor.
Common operational problems
- Ingredient consumption is not tied to dishes sold, so wastage is invisible
- Peak-hour billing delays hold up table turnover
- Table, takeaway, delivery and aggregator orders arrive through different channels
- Perishable stock expires before it is used
- Portion sizes drift between staff, moving food cost silently
Example workflows
Fast table and counter billing with modifiers
Kitchen order tickets routed from the billing screen
Recipe-linked consumption reducing ingredient stock per dish sold
Daily wastage recording against theoretical consumption
Shift-wise closing across cash, card, UPI and aggregator settlements
Needs no product covers yet
On RequestWhere a ready product does not reach far enough, these are the needs this industry raises most often. We do not build to order; telling us which of these you need is what shapes what we build next.
- Aggregator order reconciliation
- Central kitchen supplying multiple outlets
- Banquet and catering event orders with advance schedules
Recommended solutions
The capabilities that matter most in this industry, the features inside each, and which product delivers it.
POS and Commerce
Fast counter billing with shift control and a daily closing that ties out.
- Fast POS billing with barcode scanning
- Counters, shifts and cashier assignment
- Thermal, A5 and A4 receipt printing
- Multiple payment modes including split payments
- Sales returns and credit notes at the counter
- Daily closing and cash reconciliation per shift
Inventory and Purchase Management
Know what you hold, what it cost and what needs ordering — across locations, batches and units.
- Real-time stock with low-stock alerts
- Batch and expiry tracking, and serial-number tracking
- Barcode scanning for receipt, billing and stock-take
- Product variants and multiple units with conversions
- Multi-warehouse and godown transfers
- Purchase orders, quotations, returns and supplier ledgers
- Stock valuation and outstanding-payment tracking
Billing and Accounting
Invoices, payments, expenses and ledgers that stay in agreement without a month-end rebuild.
- GST-ready invoices with multiple formats and print sizes
- Customer and supplier ledgers with running balances
- Receivables and payables with ageing
- Cash and bank accounts with payment tracking
- Expense recording and categorisation
- Cash book and business reports including profit insights
HR, Attendance and Payroll
Attendance that feeds payroll directly, so salary calculation stops being a monthly spreadsheet exercise.
- Employee records and directory
- Attendance capture with shift and weekly-off configuration
- Leave types, balances and approval
- Salary structure setup with components
- Pro-rata payroll based on actual attendance
- Advances, loans and deductions tracked against the employee
Integration opportunities
Connections that commonly matter in this industry. Each carries its own honest status.
Questions
Talk to us about restaurants / cafe / catering
Describe how your business runs today. We will be straightforward about whether a ready product fits or whether it needs building around.