The back-office for F&B.
Salt is the all-in-one management platform from ingredient purchasing to menu pricing, built for restaurants that mean business.
Multi-location · AI-powered · Multilingual
Running a kitchen on spreadsheets is expensive.
The numbers that decide your profit end up scattered, stale, or guessed.
- You don't actually know your food cost.
- Your menu isn't priced for profit.
- Your stock counts are always out of sync with what's on the shelf.
- Waste piles up because nobody's tracking it.
- Requisitions and purchase orders get lost in texts, calls, and paper — with no way to track their status.
- Your menu isn't online, and changes never sync there automatically.
Salt replaces your costing spreadsheet, a separate inventory app, a menu design tool, and a purchasing inbox.
One platform for the numbers that run your restaurant.
From the first ingredient to the published menu, every figure stays in one place.
For chefs & kitchen managers
Recipe costing that includes waste
Automates food costing: define the recipe, price the ingredients, get an exact cost — sub-recipes and waste included.
- Sub-recipes with per-component waste %, not one flat markup
- Yield & unit cost recalculate automatically from live active-supplier prices
- Recipe Calculator scales by batch size or by a target ingredient quantity
A croissant batch, a cocktail spec, or a 40-cover tasting menu — costed the same way, to the cent.
Know your true food cost before it ever hits the menu.
Promoting your 2 star items could lift weekly revenue ~8%.
For chefs & owners
Menu engineering & AI pricing
Stops your best-margin dishes from hiding in plain sight — see contribution margin and food-cost % for every item, line by line.
- Omnes constraint solver suggests margin-safe, psychologically-rounded prices
- Quality checker flags items that are under-margin or price-dispersed vs. the category
- Stars, Plowhorses & Dogs — the BCG matrix, built from your real sales
Whether your menu has 12 items or 120, the same margin math applies to every one.
For marketing
Menu Studio
Build every menu — dine-in, specials, wine list — in one drag-and-drop editor with your brand system built in, and export a print-ready PDF in seconds.
- Drag-and-drop blocks with your brand system and templates
- Export a print-ready PDF formatted to your brand, every time
- One editor for every menu — dine-in, specials, wine list, catering
A wine list, a lunch specials board, or a full tasting menu — same builder, same brand.
Every menu on brand, built once, reused everywhere.
Every edit goes live on the QR menu instantly.
For marketing
QR menus
Publish any menu as a live, guest-facing digital page with a shareable link and QR code — no app, no printing.
- Guests scan and browse an interactive menu on their own phone
- Every edit goes live instantly — no reprint, ever
- Unpublish and the link stops working immediately
A daily specials board or your full à la carte menu — live in seconds, updated just as fast.
Guests always see today's menu, never last month's PDF.
For kitchen managers & buyers
Inventory & stocktake
Replaces the Sunday-night clipboard count with a system that already knows what you have.
- Low-stock alerts with a "depletes in X days" burn-rate forecast
- Categorized waste tracking, not just a shrinkage number
- One-pass stocktake reconciliation with a full audit trail you can revert
A walk-in stocked with proteins or a bar carrying 200 SKUs — one system counts both.
Cut stocktake from an afternoon down to under an hour.
For your buyer
Purchasing, requisitions & suppliers
Gets ordering out of texts, calls, and paper and into one place your buyer actually wants to use.
- Requisitions consolidate into supplier-grouped POs at the best price, in one click
- Receive into inventory in a single step — no re-entry
- Track overdue payments and email suppliers directly from the order
A single kitchen ordering weekly or five locations ordering daily — same workflow either way.
Full traceability from requisition to received invoice, every time.
For owners & GMs
Financials & P&L
Answers "how's the restaurant actually doing" without waiting for your accountant.
- Food, labor, prime & gross-profit % benchmarked to industry target ranges
- Expense ledger, covers, and average check tracked automatically
- Best-sellers surfaced without building a report
One location or five — compare performance side by side without exporting a thing.
Spot margin erosion the week it happens, not the month after.
For managers & shift leads
Scheduling & labor
Puts the labor half of prime cost next to the food half, instead of in a separate spreadsheet.
- Coverage and staffing targets set per shift, per department
- Absences and hours tracked by department, not a shared spreadsheet
- Labor cost feeds straight into prime cost — no manual reconciliation
A 6-person café shift or a 40-person banquet crew — the same schedule handles both.
Prime cost, complete — food and labor, one number.
Live in four steps.
Most kitchens cost their first recipe the same day.
- 1
Add ingredients
Import your ingredients and supplier prices.
- 2
Build recipes
Cost recipes with waste and sub-recipes.
- 3
Design menus
Price for profit and lay out your menu.
- 4
Publish
Share a QR menu your guests can open.

Built for real restaurant operations.
From a single kitchen to multi-location groups.
- Multi-location
- Multi-currency
- Roles & permissions
- Full audit trails
- Multilingual
Frequently asked questions
Who is Salt for?
Restaurants that want to control food cost and price their menu for profit — from a single kitchen to multi-location groups.
Does it work for multiple locations?
Yes. Manage multiple restaurants, currencies, and teams with role-based permissions.
Can I print menus and use QR codes?
Yes. Menu Studio outputs a print-ready PDF and an interactive web menu with a shareable link and QR.
What languages and currencies are supported?
Salt is multilingual with multi-currency support, so your whole team can work in the language they're comfortable with.
How do I get started?
Create an account, add your ingredients, and cost your first recipe in minutes.