Know where every dollar of food went.
Snap a paper invoice with your phone. Count on the walk-in (or snack-prep) floor. Track waste in 10 seconds. See which item is silently bleeding 12% of your margin — down to the gram.
Same Larder, your flavour.
The core is universal — multi-location inventory, AI invoice scan, mobile counts, recipe cost. The framing changes by business type. Pick yours to see the deep-dive.
Five things every shift. Eight minutes total.
Phone-photo each one. AI 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, paste a Z-report, or forward your POS daily email.
Theoretical vs actual. Items in red = investigate. Items in green = move on.
Pages your team actually opens.
Every screen is built for the floor — large tap targets, sticky save bars, no menus three levels deep. Designed on a real walk-in counter, not in a conference room.
Supplier, items, prices, taxes — all auto-extracted. You review, confirm, post.
Counts × recipes × sales = the number you act on. Red rows are where the money went.
See what's low, what's deep, what each item is worth right now — across every site.
Change one ingredient price — every recipe recalculates. See your worst margin movers.
Built by an accountant, for the kitchen.
Most inventory tools pretend that 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 location or four — same app. Central kitchen (or bake commissary, or daycare central prep) 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. AI 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.
A clean variance number is worth more than 40 tabs of pivot tables. Larder ships you the call to make — restock this, investigate that, drop the deadweight on the menu — not 12 reports to dig through.
Same features as the big platforms. A fraction of the cost.
We've been in pilot conversations with operators paying $300–500 per location per month. They're getting the same features here, without the implementation fee or the 8-week rollout.
Win tour-to-enrolment with one link.
Parents decide on food and safety. Most daycares answer with a printed menu on the wall and “we take allergies seriously.” You can do better — a live, ingredient-level menu URL parents can browse from the tour follow-up email, with allergen-free facility badges enforced by your inventory.
- Public menu pageNo login. Share on your website, Facebook, Google Business, or paste into every tour follow-up. Updates live as your kitchen plans the week.
- “Peanut-free facility” — enforced by software, not a sign on the wallBadges are computed live from your active inventory. Add a peanut item by mistake tomorrow — the badge greys out until you fix it. Parents trust this; competitors' free-text claims can't match it.
- Every recipe cross-checked against every child's allergy profileOpen a meal plan, see “3 children have an allergy that conflicts with this recipe” with each kid named and the matching allergens highlighted — before it leaves the kitchen.
What operators ask first.
Do I need to buy hardware?
Nope. Your phone is the scanner. Anything with a browser runs Larder — phone, tablet, laptop.
How do I get my supplier and item lists in?
Three options: upload a CSV (every page has a template), photo your first few invoices and let AI extract them, or type them in. Most operators are fully loaded in under an hour.
What about my POS?
Forward your daily sales email to a unique address — we parse it, match to recipes, and post to inventory. No integrations to wire, no API keys to copy.
Does this work for a commissary or central kitchen?
Built for it. Dispatch from central to satellite locations, track waste per site, roll variance up to the group — all one app, all one price.
What if I already use spreadsheets?
We import them. CSV in for items, counts, dispatches, waste, sales — every page has a downloadable template that matches your data.
How is this different from the enterprise platforms?
Same features, a fraction of the cost, no implementation fee. You can be live tonight. The big platforms quote 6-8 weeks and $5k to get started.
Run a count by Sunday.
30-day pilot, no card to start. Annual subscription after — we'll quote you when you're ready. We'll get you running in under an hour: set up locations, suppliers, items, then walk the walk-in.