Built for independent restaurants & small groups

Margin on Tap

Barback connects your POS, labor, inventory, and invoices — then tells you exactly where margin is leaking and what to change this week.

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-3.8%avg prime cost reduction

$4,860avg margin recovered / mo

29hrslabor saved per week

Barback

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Chicken wing prices up 12% from vendor
Your Sysco invoice jumped from $3.10/lb to $3.48/lb. At 200 lbs/week, that's $76/week eating margin.Recommended: Raise wings from $14.95 to $15.95.

Your POS shows what happened — not what to change.

Labor runs high before anyone catches it.

Food cost creeps through invoices and bad ordering.

Owners chase reports instead of running the floor.

What Barback does

Dashboards for visibility. An agent for action.

Barback pulls together the messy parts of restaurant operations into one clear operating system for owners and GMs.

Prime cost dashboard

Track labor, food cost, and sales in one view. See where margin is slipping by daypart, shift, or location.

Labor optimization

Compare scheduled hours against real demand. Catch overtime risk before it hits payroll.

Invoice intelligence

Spot vendor price changes, missing credits, and cost increases without digging through every line manually.

Menu margin insights

Flag high-volume, low-margin items. Get recommendations on pricing, portioning, and what to promote.

Waste & ordering alerts

Catch likely spoilage, stockout risk, and over-ordering before it turns into lost cash or service gaps.

Weekly action brief
Every week: the top actions to take now, in plain English, with expected impact on profit.
Signature feature

Live dashboard preview

See the floor, the numbers, and the next move.

Owners want dashboards. Managers need answers. Barback gives both.

Performance overview

Live

Sales

$42.8k

Labor %

31.4%

Food Cost

28.7%

Prime Cost

60.1%

High labor risk

Friday dinner FOH exceeds forecast by 9 hours.

Invoice change

Beef cost up 6.4% from last order.

How it works

Connect your stack. Get smarter every week.

Connect your systems

Bring in POS, scheduling, inventory, invoices, and recipes so Barback can see the full picture of your operation.

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Detect margin leaks

Barback monitors labor drift, food-cost changes, waste patterns, and menu performance — automatically, every day.

Labor driftPrice changesWaste alerts

Act on recommendations

Get a weekly action brief with the exact changes to make, in plain English, ranked by impact on your profit.

Plain EnglishRanked by impactWeekly

Your always-on analyst

Barback finds it. You fix it.

Most tools make you ask the right question. Barback doesn't wait. It watches every shift, invoice, and menu mix — then surfaces what you didn't know to look for, with the fix already drafted.

Catches drift before you feel it

Labor creep, portion slip, vendor hikes — flagged the same day, not at month-end.

Tells you the dollar impact

Every insight is priced. No guessing what to fix first — Barback ranks by margin at stake.

Drafts the action

Cut this shift. Reorder by Thursday. Raise this price $1.50. You approve; Barback handles the detail.

Learns your operation

The longer it runs, the sharper the calls — tuned to your menu, your crew, your vendors.

Barback

Monitoring 4 locations

Live insights

Simple pricing

Built for owner-operators and growing groups.

Start with one location, prove the value, then scale across the rest of your stores.

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Starter

$199

per location / month

POS and labor dashboard

Weekly ops brief

Basic margin alerts

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Core

$399

per location / month

Everything in Starter

Invoice intelligence

Menu & waste recommendations

Daily issue detection

Proactive AI ops agent

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Groups

Custom

for 5+ locations

Multi-location rollups

Role-based access

Executive dashboard

Custom onboarding

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