Tare
Restaurant cost software built for independent operators. Tare connects to your POS for sales and labor, reads invoices from a photo, and reports food cost, labor cost and prime cost every week instead of at month end. The same answer the expensive tools give, at a fraction of the cost and setup.
Built for independent restaurants that want prime cost weekly, not a month later.
Prime cost, every week
Prime cost at a glance
One bar shows every dollar of revenue split into food, labor and everything else, against your target. You know where the week landed before you open a spreadsheet.
Reads invoices from a photo
Drop a PDF or snap a photo. Line items, quantities and unit costs are read and matched to ingredients you have already mapped, usually in under ten seconds.
Food cost by category
See where the money went, protein to paper, and which categories are creeping. Price changes are measured against the same item from the same vendor, so a pack-size switch never reads as inflation.
Price movement alerts
When an ingredient climbs, Tare surfaces it in dollars: what it costs you per week and per year at current volume, and which menu items still have not been repriced.
Plate cost that updates itself
Menu costs move on their own as invoice prices change, so you can see food cost percent and margin per plate the day a price moves, not at the next menu print.
Labor by day
Sales per labor hour by day against your week average, so an overstaffed Tuesday shows up as recoverable dollars instead of hiding inside a monthly percentage.
Every invoice read and matched to your ingredients, in seconds.
Price movement by ingredient, same vendor, over six weeks.
Independent operators
Single-unit and small-group restaurants that know cost software matters but cannot justify three to five hundred a month, setup fees and weeks of onboarding. Tare gives an independent operator the same weekly food, labor and prime cost the multi-unit tools do, without the price tag or the project.
Your data, in minutes
Tare connects to your POS for sales and labor and reads invoices from a photo or PDF. No manual entry, no month-end close. Most operators are seeing numbers the same week they start.
- Toast POS
- Square POS
- Any invoice by photo or PDF