Restaurant management software that tracks your food cost

Restaurant management software handles the work around the food: food cost against menu price, supplier orders, invoices, online ordering and delivery apps, reviews, guest win-backs, the schedule and the numbers. Esplanda does that for counter-service restaurants, cafes and bars, and includes a free counter-service POS.

For counter service, cafes, bars and taprooms, where an order fires when it's complete, yes: Esplanda POS can replace it, and it is free. A full-service room runs coursing, table management and a kitchen display on Toast or another full-service register, the tools those registers are built for, so that register stays on the floor. Esplanda's register connection covers Square, Clover, Lightspeed and KORONA. See Esplanda vs Toast.

From your supplier invoices, free in Esplanda POS. Photograph the delivery sheet and Esplanda reads it, then applies the price you actually paid to every dish that uses that ingredient. When a cost moves, the dishes that crossed a margin line are flagged with a suggested price.

It forecasts what you'll go through from what you sold, builds each supplier order around the cut-off and minimum, and checks every delivery against the order from a photo of the invoice. Esplanda does the forecast and the invoice check free in Esplanda POS. You approve each order in one tap, or let it go out inside the value cap and approved-supplier list you set.

Yes. Your own website takes pickup and delivery orders from the same menu as the counter, with free hosting, then 99¢ per online order, never more than $299 in a month, and Esplanda takes no percentage of those sales. Marketplace Connectivity, $69 a month per location, keeps your DoorDash and Uber Eats menus and hours from one place, shows each app's margin after commission and proposes prices for each app for your approval. It is for restaurants doing $2,000 a month or more on the apps; places that sell alcohol are offered it after legal review.

Yes. A tab opens on a card hold, rounds are added through the night, and it closes with the tip; tips written on the receipt can be adjusted before the batch closes.

Esplanda's AI receptionist does, for the calls that are hours, directions, wait times, whether you take reservations, whether an item is available and where an order is. It tells callers it's your restaurant's AI receptionist and hands anything else to a person. AI Phone is an add-on at $149 per location per month with 500 answered minutes, then 20¢ a minute, and the line stops at 1,000 minutes until you approve a top-up. Web chat, owner inbox triage and the staff answer device are the AI Chat and Order Helper, $29 a month, with the first 90 days free.

For counter-service restaurants, cafes and bars, Esplanda POS is free, with the migration and 30 days of parallel running, and runs on the computer, tablet or phone you already have. Your website is free too: free hosting, then 99¢ per online order, never more than $299 in a month. A full-service room keeps its restaurant register and, if it's Square, Clover, Lightspeed or KORONA, connects it to Esplanda. If you want new gear, tested POS hardware is a one-time purchase. You add only the paid tools you want, each priced on its own per location per month, with no setup fee, no contract and no per-user fees, and every software price is the same on the processor you already have. Card processing is optional: Esplanda resells First American Payment Systems, a Deluxe company, from 2.79% + $0.10 in person and 2.89% + $0.30 online, with your rate set when First American approves your account. Every current price is on the Esplanda pricing page.