Grain is for independent restaurants, bars, cafes, and bakeries.
Keep your inventory up to date, and see what every dish and drink costs. Buy smarter, waste less, and save more of what you make.
| Item | Amount | Price | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourdough bread | 1 each | $0.34/ | $0.34 |
| Avocado | 0.5 each | $0.83/ | $0.42 |
| Olive oil | 0.25 oz | $0.30/ | $0.07 |
| Flaky salt | 0.03 oz | $0.63/ | $0.02 |
| Menu price | $11.00 | ||
| Profit · 8% cost | $10.15 | ||
Snap & upload receipts
Upload distributor invoices, market receipts, or handwritten notes. Grain parses your purchases so you just review and confirm.
Cost your menu items
Paste or build recipes from your logged inventory. Add your menu price and Grain instantly calculates cost and profit.
Invite your team
Add up to 4 staff members to help count stock and view prep recipes without ever seeing sensitive cost data or pricing.
Track inventory & save
Log counts directly on your phone and find insights when price shifts impact dish profitability or point to cheaper vendors.
Ask anything
Ask Grain how much you typically spend on an item, what ingredients are in a dish, or which vendor you buy most from.
What it looks like
Sample data.
Butter
Price history
- Restaurant Depotcheapest now$0.27/oz
- Hillside Dairy$0.30/oz
Where you saved
- +$16.00Whole milkRestaurant Depot → Hillside Dairy
- +$14.00BaconRestaurant Depot → Harbor Meat Co.
- +$8.70CheddarRestaurant Depot → Hillside Dairy
About Grain
Charlotte Moche
Founder & Engineer
Grain offers an intuitive platform designed to help small establishments manage food costs with ease. By streamlining inventory, organizing menus, and tracking vendor purchases, Grain helps teams make smarter decisions, and improve overall profitability. With built-in smart querying, users can get instant answers, whether an owner is checking historical spending on an ingredient or staff is verifying ingredients in a dish.
Having spent nearly a decade in hospitality before becoming a software engineer, I designed Grain for the establishments the industry's software tends to overlook: the small restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and bars that need practical tools, built and priced for how they actually operate.
Grain is independently built and maintained, so there's no sales team or outsourced support desk. Owners work directly with me, an engineer who has worked in the restaurant industry. I'm using the connections I have in both industries to make Grain accessible to those who need it, sharing a love for solving problems and great service.
$20/mo
or $200/year, save $40
30 days free • No card required
- ✓ Receipt and invoice scanning
- ✓ Menu item costs and what to charge
- ✓ Catches price hikes
- ✓ Stock valued at your latest purchases
- ✓ Inventory from your phone, no clipboard
- ✓ Up to 4 staff logins for inventory help
Cancel anytime. Grain is built and maintained by one person. Questions? [email protected]