AI built for restaurant operators

Know your food cost before it surprises you.

Taro AI connects vendor invoices, ingredient stock, recipes, and POS sales into one live system — so your team spots margin leaks before they hit month-end.

Built forIndependents · GMs · Chefs · Multi-unit groups
Comes with your own AI assistant — a sous chef for the numbers.
Chef plating in a restaurant kitchen
Food cost · this week
29.4%
▼ 1.8 pts vs last week
Live the moment a delivery lands

Know your true food cost today — not at month-end.

The second an invoice hits, Taro re-costs every affected recipe and flags what's eating your margin — while you can still do something about it.

See it on your numbersHow it works
Every line
of every invoice read, matched, and priced automatically.
Day 1
margin alerts instead of month-end surprises.
Zero
re-keying — duplicates caught before they distort the books.
One loop
invoices, counts, and sales in a single live picture.
The real problem

Your numbers live in too many places to trust.

Inventory in one spreadsheet, invoices in a binder, recipes in a doc, sales in the POS. By the time the numbers meet, the margin is already gone.

Costs lag your deliveries

Ingredient prices stay weeks behind the last invoice you received.

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Sales fly blind

POS sales never connect to what they actually consume.

Surprises at month-end

Variance shows up long after you could have fixed it.

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Buried in manual entry

Hours of re-keying invoices instead of running service.

How Taro works

One loop, from invoice to insight.

Every delivery, count, and sale feeds the same live picture — and Taro tells your team what to do next.

STEP 1

Import invoices

Upload or auto-receive supplier invoices. Taro extracts every line, tax, and fee.

Sysco delivery · 38 lines parsed
STEP 2

Track inventory

Costs update automatically. Counts, prep, and spoilage keep stock value honest.

Chicken breast $3.89 → $4.59/lb
STEP 3

Map recipes to sales

Connect POS items to recipes so every sale explains its true ingredient usage.

142 POS items · 96% mapped
STEP 4

Get daily insights

Taro surfaces what's eating margin — with the evidence and the next action.

3 priority insights this morning
Practical AI, inside the work

AI does the tedious parts. You review and verify.

Not a chat-box bolted on the side — AI built into recipes, counts, and the daily admin your team already does. Every result comes with confidence and reasoning, and a manager confirms before anything is saved.

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Nutrition analysis

Generate a reviewable nutrition breakdown from recipe ingredients and prep components — totals, sources, and AI notes.

612cal / serving · from 14 ingredients & 2 prep components

Allergen analysis

Flag likely allergens across ingredients and recipes with confidence and reasoning — a manager verifies before it's saved.

Peanuts · highSesame · medSoy · med
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Count sheet recognition

Upload a completed count sheet PDF or photos. Taro reads quantities, matches them to ingredients, and flags rows to review.

83 parsed6 to review
Taro AI Assistant

Your personal sous chef for the numbers.

Ask it anything about your inventory, invoices, recipes, and sales. It knows your restaurant, answers in plain language, and does the busywork — so you can stay on the floor instead of in a spreadsheet.

Knows your live counts, costs, recipes, and POS sales
Suggests prep, par levels, and reorders before you run short
Only makes changes after you confirm — never behind your back
Meet the assistant →
Taro AssistantOn shift
What should I prep tonight for tomorrow?
Tomorrow projects ~180 covers. Based on par levels and what's on hand, prep:
Pad Thai sauce2.5 L
Curry base4 batches
Diced chicken9 kg
Anything getting expensive I should know about?
Yes — chicken breast is up 18% on today's Sysco invoice. It pulls Pad Thai margin down 4 pts. Want me to flag the affected menu items?
Yes, show meNot now
One platform

Everything that touches food cost, connected.

Explore the full platform →
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Inventory that stays connected

Track ingredients by area, category, unit, and par. Counts, purchases, sales, and spoilage feed one honest view of stock value.

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Invoices become updated costs

Upload supplier invoices, match products, organize taxes and fees, catch duplicates — costs update without rebuilding spreadsheets.

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Recipe costing for real kitchens

Cost menu and prep recipes from current prices, track yields and versions, and connect what you make to what you sell.

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Know what every sale consumes

Map POS items to recipes so sales drive theoretical usage, menu-margin reporting, and real variance analysis.

Daily insights you can act on

Price creep, margin erosion, stockout risk, stale counts, duplicate invoices — each with the numbers and the next step.

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Reports that explain food cost

Variance, ideal cost, sales mix, recipe cost, vendor spend, and accounting-ready GL summaries — all exportable.

The dashboard

Open Taro and see where the money is moving.

Sales and food-cost trend, low-stock risk, recent invoices, and the day's priority insights — every number links straight back to the work behind it.

Live food-cost % against your target, day by day
Low-stock and days-of-cover alerts before you run out
Recent invoices and vendor spend at a glance
DashboardRiverside Kitchen ▾
Food cost
29.4%
▼ 1.8 pts
Net sales
$48.2k
▲ 6.1%
Gross profit
$34.0k
▲ 4.2%
Low stock
6
items
Recent invoices
Sysco$2,418
US Foods$1,260
Pacific Seafood$884
Sysco · dup?review
AI insights

An assistant that reads your restaurant, not the internet.

Taro watches across invoices, counts, recipes, and sales and surfaces the issues that quietly eat margin — each one grounded in your own numbers, with a button straight to the fix.

Explore AI Insights →
HIGHInvoices
Possible duplicate invoice
Sysco #48213 matches a $2,418 upload from Tuesday.
MEDIUMMargin
Burger buns at 2.3 days cover
Reorder point hit — usage up 14% this week.
SALESPOS
12% of sales unmapped
Hidden food cost — 9 POS items need a recipe.
DEAD STOCKStorage
$4,200 in slow-moving stock
Dry storage items unused for 30+ days.
Built for the whole operation

One system, every role on the team.

From the pass

Operators who stopped guessing.

Chef plating a dish

"We caught an 18% jump in protein cost the morning it landed — not at month-end. That one insight paid for Taro."

Marcus Reyes
Executive Chef · Riverside Kitchen
Restaurant dining room

"Counts, invoices, and reporting used to live in four tools. Now my GMs run the whole loop in one place."

Dana Whitfield
Owner · Harbor & Vine Group
Modern restaurant interior

"The unmapped-sales insight found hidden food cost we'd been eating for a year. Margin's up three points."

Priya Anand
General Manager · Asha Modern Thai

See your true food cost in one demo.

We'll connect your invoices, counts, recipes, and sales and show you the margin story in your own numbers.