PULSE for central kitchensCentral / commissary / production kitchens.

Take orders, plan production, cost every recipe.

Gather orders from your locations into a production queue, plan and run them on a board, and cost every recipe and transformation down to the ingredient — with procurement and QuickBooks financials built in.

Production boardIllustration
Queue8
Prep5
Done12
Orders from 4 locations25
Sound familiar?
Orders from each location arrive by text and spreadsheet
You don’t truly know the cost of what you produce
Production planning lives in someone’s head
Location type

Production kitchen B2B

Take orders from your locations, plan production, cost every recipe.

Production

From incoming orders to a live production board.

  • Orders received from the restaurants, gathered into an order queue
  • Plan & approve production, then run it on a production board
  • Finished-goods inventory and a production schedule

Recipes & costing

Cost what you produce, down to the transformation.

  • Recipes and transformations (prep that turns one ingredient into another)
  • Recipe costing and sellable-catalogue costing
  • Recipe coverage — spot what still has no recipe or cost

Procurement (intake)

Purchasing built for a production kitchen.

  • Suppliers, purchase orders, receiving and invoices
  • Ingredients, supplies & assets, and spend — scoped to the kitchen

HR, Operations, Analytics & Financials

The shared core, scoped to the kitchen crew.

  • Scheduling, time clock and team management for the production crew
  • Facility operations: maintenance, work orders, checklists, log book
  • Production / order analytics and QuickBooks-backed financials
Available at every location

The operating core

Seven shared modules that power every restaurant, bar, counter and kitchen in your group.

Financials

Your true cash position, backed by QuickBooks — actuals, not estimates.

  • Live P&L, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet pulled from QuickBooks Online (CA & US)
  • Payables & Receivables aging — what you owe, what you’re owed, what’s overdue
  • Prime costs (food + labor) and a DAS / tax remittance countdown so you never miss the CRA
  • A closed-form cash-flow forecast projected from your real sales pace
  • Ask PULSE — a financial copilot that answers “how much can I safely spend?” from your live books

Analytics Board

Every number that drives the business, updated from live POS data.

  • Net sales by day, week, venue, shift and daypart, vs last week and last year
  • Average check — per check and per guest (from OpenTable covers)
  • Deletes & discounts: where margin is leaking, by server and reason
  • Staff Performance scorecards: sales per hour worked, contribution, tip %, ranked vs the team
  • OKRs vs group targets, plus daily “AI Insights” that flag what changed

HR & Scheduling

Build the schedule, approve the hours, cover the gaps, pay the team — in one place.

  • Drag-and-drop weekly schedule with live labor cost vs sales and an AI read of the week
  • Kiosk / phone time clock with photo capture, smart rounding and anti-phantom-hour guards
  • Coverage view + post-a-shift-as-open, with tap-to-claim links to qualified staff
  • Availability, time-off approvals, tip pooling (FOH + BOH weekly pool), payroll prep & period close
  • Onboarding / offboarding checklists, document e-signature, and a full audit log

Procurement

From order to invoice to food cost — no data entry.

  • Build orders and purchase orders from a managed supplier catalogue
  • AI invoice OCR reads every line item and matches it to your ingredients
  • Receiving, supplier price tracking, and ingredient / inventory management
  • Supplies & Assets registry (consumables, tableware, tools) with last price and breakage counts
  • Spending by category + a Food & Bev COGS budget tied to projected sales

Operations

Everything that keeps the doors open — on one daily command screen.

  • Operations dashboard: today’s checklists, open work orders, log book, maintenance due
  • Work orders with photos and a kanban board; a facilities / asset registry
  • Digital log book, task checklists and a Help Desk
  • SOP library with required read-acknowledgements and versioning
  • Second Brain — capture notes by voice or text, searchable across the location

Marketing

Turn POS and reservation data into repeat guests — without exposing wages or financials.

  • Guest Intelligence: lifetime value, VIPs, lapsed guests, spend tiers (from OpenTable)
  • Loyalty & retention campaigns by SMS and email, with real campaign ROI
  • Growth Signals: slow days, average-check gaps and guests to win back — each linked to where you act
  • Promotion results measured from live POS: redemptions, dollars discounted, net sales
  • Revenue-channel mix (dine-in vs delivery) and CRM sync to GoHighLevel

Food Management Console

One kitchen console for ordering, stock, recipes, production and food safety.

  • Supplier catalogue you can browse, edit and add to, feeding the whole ordering flow
  • Ordering, receiving and inventory in one place
  • Recipes and (for production kitchens) production planning
  • Food-safety logs and checks
  • Scoped to the active location; features adapt to the kitchen type
Connected to the tools you already run
QuickBooks Online Auphan POS OpenTable GoHighLevel Clover Google Drive Delivery channels

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Free for your first location. Connect QuickBooks and your POS and watch it fill with your real data.