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RESTAURANT INVENTORY & FOOD COST

Know what came in, what changed, what it costs, and what needs attention.

Venkoi's featured product connects invoices and purchases to inventory movement, supplier prices, food cost, physical counts, and reorder preparation. Venkoi also takes on selected custom mobile and web projects.

Venkoi Serve
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Inventory

On Hand
ItemQuantity
Tomatoes24 lb
Chicken Breast18 lb
Olive Oil6 gal
IncomingPO-1048Produce Vendor
ActivityTomatoes +24 lbToday
Costs$2.10 / lb
Representative interface with sample operational data.
Venkoi Serve · RESTAURANT INVENTORY3 MONTHS FREE

Follow the information from an invoice to the decisions that follow.

Venkoi Serve connects an approved purchase to inventory history and source costs, then carries that context into counts, reorder preparation, and owner review.

What came in?

Detect invoice details, correct the Purchase Draft, and explicitly post only after review.

What changed — and why?

Trace a movement back to receiving, waste, production, a count, or a manual adjustment.

What did it cost?

Carry valid supplier costs into preparation and menu review; show Partial or Missing when source costs are incomplete.

What should be purchased?

Compare the count with par, account for packages, and prepare a supplier-grouped shopping list.

What needs attention?

Review price changes, waste, count variance, cost gaps, below-par items, and recent activity.

The first release is planned to include these workflows. Accepted participants can use Venkoi Serve free for 3 months.

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Venkoi Serve
Product preview

Inventory

On Hand
ItemQuantity
Tomatoes24 lb
Chicken Breast18 lb
Olive Oil6 gal
Representative interface with sample operational data.

INSIGHTS

Practical guidance for restaurant operations.

Guides to restaurant inventory, physical counts, food cost, and the supplier information behind day-to-day decisions.

RESTAURANT OPERATIONS

Inventory gets harder when the information lives in different places.

Why keeping inventory, purchases, and costs in separate places makes restaurant operations more difficult than they need to be.

RESTAURANT OPERATIONS

Restaurant food cost: from ingredient cost to menu item

How package prices become usable ingredient costs, flow through preparations and yield, and reach the cost of a plate.

RESTAURANT OPERATIONS

Restaurant inventory counts: zero, uncounted, and variance

A practical guide to recording what was found, separating zero from unfinished work, and reviewing variance before inventory changes.

PRODUCT PHILOSOPHY

Build the useful part first.

01

Keep the work visible

A person should be able to see what happened and what to do next.

02

Built around real workflows

We learn the existing process before deciding what the software should change.

03

Add with a reason

New functionality should solve a known problem, not fill a feature list.

ABOUT VENKOI

A software company that starts with its own products.

We build software products, with a current focus on restaurant inventory and food-cost operations. We also accept selected custom mobile and web projects.

Based in Tampa Bay. Building products for businesses well beyond one market.

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CUSTOM SOFTWARE BY VENKOI

Have a mobile or web workflow that needs its own software?

We take on selected custom projects alongside our products. Bring us the problem, the people affected, and what needs to work better.

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MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Mobile applications for iOS and Android built around real users, goals, and workflows.

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WEBSITES & WEB APPLICATIONS

Websites and web applications shaped around what you want to accomplish, from a simple web presence to more interactive experiences.

See the product, or tell us what you need built.

Want to see our restaurant inventory product? Request a demo. Have a different mobile or web software problem? Tell us about the project.