Dineserve

This is the second product this week that reminds me Partender, an app for tracking alcohol inventory. The previous one was a timber measuring app (no joke) called Timber Diameter. cc @NikKundra

Restaurants rely on pen and paper, legacy software that costs thousands to purchase and maintain, or spreadsheets made by expensive consultants to manage their business. They use phone, fax and clipboards to place orders from wholesale food distributors and local purveyors. This results in costly mistakes, hours of stress, lost profits and 35 billion pounds of food wasted every year in the U.S. We're taking the pain out of recipe costing, saving time spent on counting inventory and preventing mistakes when ordering ingredients. Our plan is to achieve ubiquity within the food industry and process orders between commercial kitchens and wholesale food distributors as well as local purveyors. Thanks for the support @daveambros and of course @ProductHunt!

Interesting and probably very helpful. We're working an a side food related project that this might be helpful to our potential clients. My wife (and partner) likes to watch the restaurant rescue shows and almost everyone boils down to people who don't know how to do cost analysis of their own business. How much can you customize the costs? (I didn't download the app to play with it yet). Can you have multiple costs for the same item depending on the source (heritage pork chop over supermarket, or costco versus sysco)? I know there is at least one other app that does this, but they seem to have gone out of business since last year (or aren't updating the app). Also, what's your monetization strategy if you don't mind sharing?

@SacBookReviewer Thanks! The app currently lets you specify ingredient prices from different vendors. Soon we'll show average prices based on your location and allow multiple prices from a single vendor to reflect volume discounts. The base software will always be free as we aim to be in as many commercial kitchens as possible. We'll charge a monthly subscription price to synchronize data across iOS, Android and our web app. This is currently our most requested feature. Long term, we will charge a commission for transactions between commercial kitchens and purveyors. I hope this answers your questions. Please feel free to email me at kirill@dineserve.com. Very excited to learn more about your side food related project!

Very cool! Is this similar to http://sourcery.us/?

Thanks @NikKundra! We are similar to Sourcery but are taking a different approach by initially releasing free management software before we introduce ordering and marketplace functionality. Congratulations on your great progress at Partender!

Thanks! We're huge fans of anyone and everyone bringing the food & bev industry out of the 18th century and into the 21st. Let us know how we can help!