Receni for restaurants

Run the kitchen,not the paper chase

Produce invoices at dawn, a cash-and-carry run at noon, an emergency fridge repair at close. Scan each receipt at the pass and your food cost stops being a mystery.

Receni app screen for restaurants

Fresh Fields Produce

Food cost — weekly order

Mixed produce, 14 cases$286.40
Herbs & specialty greens$54.10
Total$340.50

Captured with AI scan

Supplier & market runsEquipment & repairsSmallwares & supplies

Sound familiar?

Thin margins, thick receipt spike

Food cost you can't see

Margins live and die on food cost, but when supplier invoices, market runs, and cash-and-carry receipts pile up unentered, you find out you drifted a month too late.

The spike by the register

Every restaurant has one — a spindle of receipts nobody has time to enter. Between prep, service, and close, bookkeeping always loses to the kitchen.

Surprises the books never saw

A compressor dies mid-shift, a keg deposit goes on someone's personal card — irregular costs scatter across pockets and never make it into the numbers.

How Receni helps

Built-in answers for restaurants

Receni AI receipt scanning

Scan at the pass

Snap the supplier invoice as it comes off the truck. Receni's AI reads merchant, date, total, and category in seconds — even mid-service.

Receni multi-workspace accounts

A workspace per location

Two spots, or a kitchen and a food truck? Each gets its own space — costs stay separate and comparable.

Receni visual expense dashboards

Watch food cost by month

Dashboards break spending down by category — food, bar, repairs, smallwares — so drift shows up in days, not at month-end.

Receni monthly budgets

Budgets that hold the line

Set monthly limits for food and operating categories. When an area runs hot, you see it while there's still time to adjust the menu or the ordering.

Receni CSV export for bookkeeping

Bookkeeper-ready exports

Export categorized expenses as a clean CSV your bookkeeper can open directly — every invoice and market run itemized.

Adding a receipt manually in Receni

Cash runs counted

The farmers-market cash buy and the emergency ice run — add them manually in seconds so food cost stays honest.

How it works

From pocketful of paper to organized records

01

Snap the receipt

Point your camera at any receipt — paper, email screenshot, or invoice. Receni's AI reads the merchant, date, total, and category in seconds.

02

Review and save

Check what the AI extracted before anything is stored. Adjust the category or amounts, pick the right workspace, and save with one tap.

03

Export when it matters

At tax time or month end, export clean CSV files your accountant can open directly — no shoebox, no retyping.

30

Free AI scans a month — trial it through a real week of deliveries

Per location

Workspaces keep each kitchen's costs separate

1 tap

CSV export for your bookkeeper

Example scenario
Our food cost was a quarterly surprise. Now the morning delivery gets scanned before it's even shelved, and I can see the month drifting while I can still fix the ordering.
ElenaCafé owner-operatorAn illustrative example — not a customer review.

FAQ

Restaurants questions, answered

No — Receni tracks what you spend, not what you sell. It organizes supplier invoices, market runs, and operating receipts; sales and covers stay in your POS.

Ready when you are

Know your food cost while you can still change it.

Download Receni free and scan tomorrow's delivery as it arrives.