Know where every dollar of food went.
Snap a paper invoice with your phone. Count on the walk-in floor. Track waste in 10 seconds. See which item is silently bleeding 12% of your margin. Built for restaurants that grew past the spreadsheet — and the ones who never started one.
- Multi-location inventory with central-kitchen support
- Phone-photo invoices — Claude Vision extracts everything
- Mobile-first counts + waste log
- Recipes with live food cost % vs target
- Variance dashboard — theoretical vs actual usage
- POS-optional — manual or CSV sales import works fine
- Comps & giveaways tracked separately from waste
- Full audit trail on every gram of food
Five things every shift. Eight minutes total.
Phone-photo each one. Claude Vision pulls supplier, items, prices. Confirm, inventory updates, item costs refresh.
Walk the walk-in with a phone. Type the on-hand. Sticky save bar stays in view as you scroll.
Recipes with live food cost %. Change an ingredient cost — every recipe recalculates.
Type yesterday's plate counts or paste a Toast Z-report. Theoretical usage flows through.
Theoretical vs actual. Items in red = investigate. Items in green = move on.
Built by an accountant, for the kitchen.
Most inventory tools pretendthat recipes × sales = inventory used. They're wrong. Real kitchens have portioning drift, drops, comps to regulars, samples to friends. The physical count is the truth. Larder treats it that way — sales drive the theoretical column, your counts drive the actuals, and the gap is the signal you act on.
One restaurant or four — same app. Central kitchen buys, preps, dispatches to satellites. Each location has its own on-hand, its own variance, its own menu price. The truck run is one click; both ends update atomically.
Phone-photo a paper invoice. Claude Vision extracts supplier, line items, prices. You review, fix anything wrong, confirm — PO is created and received in one tap. Replaces the 12-minute typing tax that every other tool charges you.
MarketMan charges $240+ per location per month. xtraCHEF bundles only if you're on Toast. MarginEdge wants $440. Larder ships the same feature set — invoice OCR included — for a small fraction of any of them.
Same features as the big platforms. A fraction of the cost.
The other guys charge $240–500/mo per location. We're running pilots right now, so pricing is per-conversation — usually well under what you're paying today. Get an honest quote in one email.
Start tonight. Run a count by Sunday.
Free trial. No credit card. We'll get you running in under an hour — set up locations, suppliers, items, then walk the walk-in.