Restaurant in Biznsbook: An Overview
Restaurant turns your menu into structured, cost-aware recipes, then builds an entire operation on top: theoretical-vs-actual cost tracking, automatic stock depletion on every sale, supplier price intelligence, waste tracking, par-level auto-ordering, menu engineering, floor plans and live tables, a kitchen display system, modifiers, online and QR-table ordering, reservations, and an executive performance view.
It's an operational module — it manages recipes, costing, kitchen operations, and front-of-house, but it doesn't file regulatory returns.
What you can do
- Build recipes and see their exact food cost and a suggested sale price
- Compare theoretical vs actual cost of goods sold, nightly
- Auto-deplete ingredients from stock as POS sales happen
- Scan supplier invoices into draft purchase bills
- Get alerted the moment a supplier price jumps
- Log waste and see how much of your variance it explains
- Set par levels and auto-generate draft purchase orders
- See which dishes are Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, or Dogs
- Handle catch-weight items like fish and meat
- Run a floor plan, live table status, and POS table service
- Put the kitchen on a screen with the Kitchen Display System
- Offer modifiers ("no onions", size, add-ons) at the till
- Take orders through a public online menu and table QR codes
- Print cost cards, allergen/nutrition labels, and prep sheets
- Take reservations, run a waitlist, and reward guests with loyalty
- Review it all on an executive Performance dashboard, with scheduled email digests
Before you start
| You'll need | Why |
|---|---|
| Restaurant module licensed | Shows the Restaurant menu and screens |
| Inventory module | Ingredient items, stock ledger, average cost |
| POS module | Recipes and depletion key off POS sales |
| View restaurant | Recipes, categories, costing, dashboard, invoice-scan history, acknowledge price alerts |
| Manage recipes | Create/edit/activate/archive/copy recipes and modifier groups, recalculate COGS, reprocess failed depletions |
| View restaurant reports | COGS Variance, COGS Dashboard, Depletion Log/Failures, Price Tracker, Waste Summary, Menu Engineering, Table/KDS/Online-order analytics, Prep Sheets |
| Manage restaurant settings | Open and edit Settings, waste reason codes, KDS stations, online-ordering config |
| Manage purchasing and invoice scan | Upload/review/confirm invoice scans; record catch weight on a GRN |
| Manage waste logging | Open Log Waste and record entries |
| Manage par levels | Create/edit par levels, generate orders, bulk-import |
| Manage floor plans | Create/edit floor plans and save table layouts |
| Manage reservations | Create bookings, drive their lifecycle, add/seat waitlist guests |
All of these are seeded to Company Admin automatically when the module is licensed — assign the rest to your kitchen, front-of-house, and finance staff as needed.
:::info Ingredient cost comes from Inventory Every recipe's cost reads each ingredient's average cost. For accurate food costs, make sure ingredient items have a real cost from purchases or opening balances — see Choose a costing method. :::
Finding your way around
Restaurant appears in the main sidebar for any licensed company with a user who has View restaurant — same place as POS and Inventory. A red badge flags failed stock depletions.
| Section | Screens |
|---|---|
| Costing | Recipes, Categories, Modifier Groups |
| Reports | COGS Variance (+ Dashboard), Menu Engineering, Prep Sheets, Weight Variance, Table Analytics, KDS Analytics |
| Depletion | Depletion Log (+ Failures) |
| Purchasing intelligence | Invoice Scan, Price Tracker, Catch Weight Items |
| Waste | Waste Log, Waste Summary, Reason Codes |
| Par levels | Par Levels, Order History |
| Front of house | Floor Plans, Live View, Reservations, Waitlist, Restaurant Customers |
| Kitchen | KDS Dashboard, Expeditor View, Manage KDS Stations |
| Online | Online Orders (+ Analytics), Table QR Codes |
| Executive | Performance |
| Setup | Setup Wizard, Settings |
First-run setup wizard
When Restaurant is newly licensed, opening the Dashboard may redirect you to a setup wizard — Welcome, Basics (default food-cost %, time zone, waste approval), an optional first recipe, an optional simple floor plan, and Kitchen (enable KDS and seed default stations). Skip stops the auto-redirect without marking it complete; Complete finishes it. It doesn't create a second settings system — it writes to the same Settings, recipes, floor plans, and KDS stations the rest of the module uses.