Inventory, recipe costing, sales, and AI invoice scanning. Built for the kitchens the big platforms ignore. Set up in an afternoon. From $49 a month.
Built around your Square POS
ChefLytics focuses on the parts small kitchens actually use — food cost, recipes, inventory, and invoices — at a price you can pay without renegotiating with your landlord.
Net sales, food cost %, margin, and alerts. Refreshed every time the POS rings.
Take a peek →Every transaction from your POS, by employee, hour, and category. Searchable in milliseconds.
Take a peek →Build once, cost forever. Watch margins move in real time as ingredient prices change.
Take a peek →Theoretical stock that depletes per sale and reconciles per count. Variance, valued, alerted.
Take a peek →Snap an invoice. We read it in seconds, map to ingredients, and restock. Even if your supplier abbreviates everything.
See it work →Powered by Claude VisionYour supplier prints "GC CHEESE MOZZ STYL PLNTBSD SHRD 4-". Your inventory calls it "Mozzarella, plant-based, shredded." ChefLytics maps the two, across every line, every brand, every weird abbreviation. In four seconds.
Crumpled, faded, photographed sideways at the back door. Doesn't matter. Drag it in or snap from your phone.
Supplier, date, line items, quantities, unit costs. Mapped to the ingredients you already track. 90%+ accuracy on the first run.
Quantities post to stock. Costs flow into recipe margins. The journal entry is ready when you want it.
Every sale at the POS deducts the exact ingredients in the recipe, down to the tenth of an ounce. Counts reconcile theoretical vs actual so you can see waste the day it happens, not on the 7th of next month.
| Ingredient | Category | Stock | Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sausage Gordon | Meat | 113.2 oz | $37.49 | Low |
| Dough Gordon | Base | 5,850 oz | $230.10 | OK |
| Fresh Mozzarella Rest. Depot | Cheese | 1,425 oz | $191.65 | OK |
| Pepperoni Gordon | Meat | 1,497 un | $80.66 | OK |
Build a recipe once and ChefLytics costs it every minute. When pepperoni jumps 18%, you'll know which pies bleed margin before your competitor does.
R365 is a great product. For 500-unit chains with a CFO. Here's what you actually need (and don't) when you're running 1 to 5 locations.
| Feature | ChefLytics | Restaurant365 | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $49 / mo | ~$469 / mo Core, annual contract | $0 + your weekend |
| AI invoice scanning | ✓ Included | ✓ Add-on | — |
| POS sync | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Recipe & menu costing | ✓ | ✓ | ~ If patient |
| Real-time inventory | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Multi-location | ✓ $39 / extra | ✓ Quote | — |
| Full accounting GL / AP | ~ Export to QB Coming Q3 2026 | ✓ | — |
| Payroll, scheduling | — Use Gusto / Homebase | ✓ | — |
| Time to first value | ~1 hour | 4–12 weeks | Never |
| Contract | Month-to-month | Annual minimum | — |
Pricing as of June 2026. R365 doesn't publish prices publicly. Figures based on operator quotes from trade publications and reddit threads.
Not mock screenshots. ChefLytics was built and tested on a month of real operations from Street Crust, a working pizzeria — real Square sales and real Gordon Food Service invoices, end to end.
A full month of real transactions imported and broken down by hour, category, and employee — the same data your register already has.
Actual Gordon Food Service invoice photos read line by line and mapped to ingredients — abbreviations, pack sizes and all.
Recipes priced from those invoices, so every plate's food cost and margin reconciles to what the kitchen actually paid.
We're onboarding our first operators now — be one of them.
No "contact sales." No annual minimums. Cancel before midnight, no charge tomorrow.
For the food truck, the pop-up, the one-location operator.
The full ChefLytics stack. What most independent kitchens pick.
For groups running 2 to 10 locations from one brain.
14 days free. No credit card. No annual contract. We'll even import your data from R365 for you.