Changelog
Every change,
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What we shipped to RestaurantMate, from the first app in July 2025 to today.
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What we shipped to RestaurantMate, from the first app in July 2025 to today.
Follow by RSSRestaurant devices take their work from a central server over encrypted connections, run the most urgent jobs first, pace each vendor login gently and...
Choose which pages each role sees, preview the sidebar before saving, and everyone lands on their own first page.
Describe an alert in your own words, for example a price change, an item delivered short or a day's overtime hours.
AI assistants you connect can now change data and your cart with the same permissions you have, without an extra approval page.
Choose who receives each location's weekly report, which sections it includes and when it arrives.
Draft event and vendor contracts from your own templates with an AI assistant, download them as PDFs, email them, and add events to the 7shifts calendar.
A Labor page with an overtime watch, a staffing heatmap by hour, people, timecards and a view for each person.
Sync tips on demand, see which approved days changed afterwards, and send tip reports as PDFs.
Open the agent from the sidebar and ask about your location; it can look up data from any page.
For vendor logins that use an authenticator app, store the setup key once.
When a vendor login expires, RestaurantMate stops retrying it over and over and retries failed receipts on a schedule.
Record bills from non-food vendors like utilities and repairs.
Coach suggests vendor switches and savings for each location, and a weekly report per location is emailed as a PDF.
A sidebar with a location switcher, a search that finds products first (Ctrl or Cmd + K), a separate Shopping page, and a calmer look across every page.
Each invoice line is checked against its own product as it is saved.
A COGS page (COGS is what your food costs you) shows food cost for every menu item from your invoice prices, including POS modifiers, with a target per...
Compare two periods of purchases and see whether spend changed because of price or quantity.
Each person builds their own dashboard from widgets, or describes it and lets our AI build it.
Counts open to your lists and recent counts, with past counts by day you can view, edit or shop from.
Give each person view, edit or full access per area of the app, with ready-made roles including one for staff who count and buy.
Each location gets its own free trial, with no card needed to start, and is billed on its own after that.
Each purchase shows where it stands, with shorts and substitutions marked.
Schedules and timecards from 7shifts sync into each location, signing in the same way a manager does.
A tool that splits tips across staff day by day, shows how every dollar was shared, refreshes every few hours and lets you approve each day.
Bulky search data moved out of the way, the order guide and counts load from cache first, and background scheduling does about seven times less work.
Unit prices come from the vendor's own pack and selling-unit data first, with plain pack math as the fallback, and prices you reviewed are kept across...
Credit memos, returns and deposits are recorded as credits.
New connections for beer, wine and spirits distributors and more foodservice suppliers, reading invoices from the vendor's own records where they...
Try RestaurantMate with sample data, one click from the website.
Every location of a restaurant group can share one RestaurantMate inbox address for invoices, price sheets and bills.
A location being set up opens to a welcome screen that asks a few questions first and shows what is happening.
Write recipes in kitchen units like cups, tablespoons and ounces, and link a portion to a POS item.
When a vendor changes a product number, RestaurantMate finds the new one instead of failing the order.
A price history matrix compares what you paid across vendors, and only compares packs that can fairly be compared.
The cart shows one card per vendor and checkout runs right on those cards.
Add items in the middle of a run, cart saves survive brief server hiccups, and a short checkout is recorded as partial, naming what the vendor kept.
A count in progress is no longer lost when we release an update, and pages that look up related records got faster.
restaurantmate.ai was rebuilt with a page for each part of the product, new sign-in screens and our legal policies.
Delivery prices are worked out per unit actually received, and each product shows what it cost next to what it was listed at.
Search ranks the products you have bought before at the top, prices results per unit, shows which inventory item each is linked to, and can search...
A Mail page shows each location's vendor emails grouped by vendor, with images loaded safely, and sender rules live there too.
Each count is valued at the prices you actually paid at the time, and a new report shows inventory value for any date range.
Connect your own AI assistant through MCP, a standard way for AI apps to reach your data.
Later retired: Later retired: the approval page for changes was replaced by direct changes with undo in October 2026.
We brought existing restaurants onto the new platform with their recipes, receipts, counts, menu, sales and labor history, re-ran setup on the improved...
For vendors that publish order data, invoice lines are read from that data instead of the PDF.
When you ask for help, our support team can open your workspace in a clearly marked support session, and every session is logged.
The order guide was reorganized around shopping and counts, with one count-then-order flow and search results laid out by product.
Purchasing has a Price Sheets tab and an upload button for any invoice.
Open any past cart and restore it, and see your past orders on each product.
A recipes page with POS categories and favorites, where the cost updates as you edit.
A reports hub with labor, sales, an owner overview and purchasing, each with drill-downs and favorites.
Later retired: Later retired: dashboards you build yourself replaced the reports hub in September 2026.
Start a shopping run from your latest count.
Checkout runs in a sidebar that stays open as you move around and picks up where it left off after a reload.
The shop became the Order Guide.
Search a vendor's catalog live from any item and see what came back.
Each item card shows photos, each vendor's offer with pack options and deal badges, and price history.
Prices at your website vendors are refreshed on a nightly schedule.
The shop loads one area at a time and only fetches vendor details when you open them.
A new background worker handles vendor sign-in, price refresh, product search and invoice import, one job at a time per login.
Sales from Toast and SpotOn and timecards from Homebase import into each location.
Connect a mailbox and choose which senders' invoices, receipts and price sheets to import.
Owners decide which pages and locations each team member can open.
Each vendor connection from the earlier version was rebuilt on the new platform and tested end to end, with a nightly health check on each one.
Invoices, order guides and price sheets are read by our AI.
A grocery chain and a regional distributor were connected, and you can reset a forgotten password from the sign-in page.
Each location gets its own shop of the items it buys, counts that feed the cart, vendor minimums and a receipts page.
We started RestaurantMate's next version on a clean base: one workspace per restaurant group, locations inside it, and areas like Kitchen and Bar...
Fixed a case where checking out just one vendor could drop results without telling you.
Set each vendor's minimum in cases, units or dollars; the cart shows your progress and won't check out a vendor below it.
Later retired: Later retired: the cart now shows each minimum and leaves the choice to you.
See labor cost, hours, labor as a share of sales and sales per labor hour, with timecards, overtime hours and prime cost.
Checkout lives in a sidebar that stays open, lets you choose vendors, sends each vendor its part of the cart in parallel, and starts warming up while...
Create a vendor that only sends email; its invoices are picked up from your inbox.
Search for a product and see results from each vendor side by side, with stock, deals and pack prices.
Vendor jobs moved to a simpler dispatcher that tracks attempts and backs off, so one failing login no longer floods a vendor with retries.
Price checks now say whether an item is in stock, whether there is a promotion or volume discount, and when an item is sold by actual weight (catch...
New connections for broadline and produce distributors, a bakery, a business warehouse club, an online wholesaler and a cash-and-carry, covering...
The device starts up on its own, joins Wi-Fi through a setup page on your phone, prefers a wired connection and powers back on after an outage.
Each item now keeps its unit conversions, for example how many pounds are in a case, so unit prices are calculated the same way every time instead of...
Fixed a loop that could freeze the deliveries page and its analytics tabs.
A small computer in the restaurant now does the vendor work, using the restaurant's own internet connection.
The AI review of a count now shows its findings as it goes, and order guides are processed faster.
If a vendor's cart fails, the Purchasing Assistant retries automatically, up to three times, and works in a small window instead of blocking the page.
Staff pick the vendor and the order, then mark each item received, missing or damaged with notes and photos.
A report lines up the same items across your vendors, highlights the cheapest for each, counts which vendor wins most often, and exports to PDF.
Each restaurant gets its own AI agent that can read its data, look up vendor prices and help fill the cart.
Later retired: Later retired: the Telegram agent did not carry over to the new platform. Chat with your location's agent inside the app since October 2026.
Recipe costing gained unit conversions, by-products and an automatic fix for recipes that don't add up.
The Toast import brings in menu modifiers, and past orders were re-imported with them, so older sales count toward food cost too.
Deliveries got search, filters and bulk actions, and the menu pricing page shows sales by hour with recipes editable in place.
Create custom vendors for suppliers we don't connect to yet.
Upload your recipe documents and the Recipe Wizard pulls out each recipe, matches the ingredients to your inventory and links it to the menu item it...
Staff get their own counting screen with keyboard navigation, units filled in for zero counts, and suggestions for items they may have missed.
A guided checkout walks through each vendor in your cart, one step at a time, instead of a separate button per vendor.
Restaurants on SpotOn get their daily sales, menu and prices synced, with a one-time import of past sales.
When you connect a website vendor, its invoices are collected for you and read by our AI.
From your RestaurantMate cart, items are added straight into the cart on each vendor's website, starting with the large distributors and a warehouse club.
Vendors without a shopping website can be added by uploading their price sheet.
Connect your email so vendor messages and attachments show up in RestaurantMate.
A desktop app let owners sign in to vendor websites on their own computer so RestaurantMate could work with those vendors.
Later retired: Later retired: the device in the restaurant took over this job in April 2026.
A home dashboard shows key numbers and quick actions, with charts of what you spent on deliveries and what you sold over any date range.
Upload, view and organize PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets and images.
Later retired: Later retired: Files did not carry over to the new platform.
Inventory became a searchable spreadsheet, the audit screens were redesigned, and PDF exports got clearer.
Vendor searches and price checks moved to their own service that runs several lookups at once, so results come back faster.
See what each menu item costs to make next to what it sells for, including POS modifiers like add bacon or extra cheese.
The order dialog now prepares its suggestions on our server and shows what it is working on, so you can keep using the app.
RestaurantMate got a new logo and colors and a new public website, and announced its backing from Redbud VC.
While ordering, each option shows how much you save compared with the others.
A Chrome extension loads your order list and adds each item to your warehouse club cart, with the pickup club already chosen.
Later retired: Later retired: items now go straight into each vendor's own cart, since January 2026.
Take a photo of the paper count sheet and RestaurantMate reads it into the audit, and any audit can be exported as a PDF.
Audits are grouped by category, can be sorted and marked done, and our AI reviews each count for numbers that look off.
Products sold by the case or by the single unit show both prices, and you choose which goes in the cart.
Upload a photo or PDF of a delivery receipt; our AI reads the lines and records the delivery.
After a count, an order dialog suggests what to buy and from which vendor, then takes you to the cart.
Voice counting works with one tap on a phone or tablet.
Later retired: Later retired: voice counting ended in December 2025.
A chat assistant answers questions and keeps past conversations.
Later retired: Later retired: replaced in February 2026 by a restaurant agent.
Mark the exact products you prefer to buy so they show first, and hide the ones you never want.
Later retired: Later retired: kitchen prep logs ended in December 2025.
RestaurantMate signs in to your vendors' websites with your own logins, starting with a regional distributor, a national distributor and a warehouse...
Staff can say their counts out loud instead of typing them.
Later retired: Later retired: voice counting ended in December 2025.
Add items to a cart grouped by vendor.
Set up your inventory and sort it into categories and sub-categories you can drag to reorder.