The complete platform

The restaurant operating system for food cost.

Inventory, invoices, recipes, sales, prep, insights, and reports — one connected system that turns daily restaurant work into food-cost clarity.

Chef plating in a working kitchen

One system, running where the food actually moves.

From the walk-in to the P&L, every step feeds the same live picture of your food cost.

One
system, every step
Daily
AI insights
Real-time
food-cost visibility
Inventory & counts

Inventory that stays connected to the work.

Track ingredients by storage area, category, unit, and par level. Counts, purchases, sales, and spoilage all feed a clearer view of what's on hand and what it's worth.

·Counts by area, category, or selected ingredients — with templates
·Units, conversions, reporting units, and par levels
·Waste and spoilage tracked as real inventory events
Chicken breast, boneless
Proteins · Walk-in cooler
Price ▲ 18%
On hand
42 lb
Unit cost
$4.59
Days cover
5.1
Price history
$3.89$4.59 / lb
Sysco · Invoice #48213Auto-imported
Mar 14
Line itemMatchedTotal
Chicken breast 40lb✓ Auto$183.60
Romaine 6ct case✓ Auto$28.40
Olive oil 3LReview$41.20
Ingredient cost$2,261.40
Tax$118.20
Fees$38.40
Total$2,418.00
Invoice automation

Upload an invoice. Taro updates your costs.

Extract every line, tax, and fee, match products to ingredients, catch duplicates, and update ingredient costs — without rebuilding spreadsheets.

·Sysco EDI intake and supplier invoice processing
·Duplicate detection before numbers get distorted
·Clean spend breakdowns with exportable GL summaries
Recipe & menu costing

Recipe costing built for real kitchens.

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

·Nested prep recipes, yields, and version history
·Flags for missing prices or conversion issues
·Allergens and nutrition pulled from ingredient data
Pad Thai · v468% margin
IngredientQtyCost
Rice noodles120 g$0.62
Chicken breast90 g$0.91 ▲
Tamarind sauce (prep)40 ml$0.34
Practical AI, inside the work

AI that does the tedious parts — you review and verify.

Nutrition analysis, allergen analysis, and count-sheet recognition run inside normal restaurant workflows. Taro generates a reviewable draft with confidence and reasoning; a manager confirms before anything is saved.

AI nutrition analysis

Nutrition analysis without starting from scratch.

Generate a reviewable nutrition breakdown from a recipe's ingredients, quantities, and nested prep components — with nutrition-facts-style totals, ingredient data sources, and cooking-effect notes.

·Per-ingredient calories, fat, carbs, protein, and sodium
·Data sources and AI notes you can audit before saving
·A clear recalculate-and-save workflow after review
Pad Thai · NutritionAI draft · review
Nutrition Facts
Per serving · 1 plate (340g)
Calories612
Total Fat21 g
Total Carbs78 g
Protein29 g
Sodium980 mg
Ingredient breakdown
Rice noodles
USDA · 120g
198 cal
Chicken breast
USDA · 90g
149 cal
Tamarind sauce (prep)
Prep recipe · 40ml
96 cal
Peanuts, crushed
USDA · 14g
82 cal
AI note · Frying adds ~40 cal from oil absorption. Generated from 14 ingredients and 2 prep components.
Verify before saving
RecalculateSave nutrition
Pad Thai · Allergen analysis✓ Verified by manager
PNPeanutsSOSoySESesameEGEggs
HIGH
Peanuts
Crushed peanuts listed directly in the recipe and in the garnish.
MEDIUM
Soy & Sesame
Likely present via tamarind sauce (prep) — soy sauce and sesame oil in the base.
AI-assisted analysis · not a guarantee of allergy safety. Review before saving.
AI allergen analysis

Allergen visibility built into recipes.

Analyze ingredients and recipes for common allergens, see the confidence and reasoning behind each result, then let a manager verify what gets saved.

·Allergen icons with high / medium / low confidence chips
·Short reasoning text so every flag is auditable
·Verified status saved after a manager confirms
Count sheet AI recognition

Paper count sheets, back in the system faster.

Print a count sheet, fill it out on the floor, then upload the completed PDF or page photos. Taro reads the quantities, matches them to ingredients and prep recipes, and flags low-confidence rows for review.

·One PDF or multiple page images, handwritten or typed
·Confidence, notes, skipped rows, and unreadable values
·Editable count entries you review before save and finalize
Dry storage count · reviewPDF · 4 pages read
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count-sheet-mar14.pdf
Recognized
Ingredient / prepCountedConfidence
Flour, AP3 bagsHigh
Canola oil · unit → gal2.5High
Jasmine rice7 ?Review
Tamarind sauce (prep)Unreadable
83 entries parsed · 6 need review
Review rowsApply to count
POS item mappingToast · 142 items
POS itemRecipeStatus
Pad Thai - ChickenPad Thai v4Mapped
Spring Rolls (3)Spring RollMapped
Chef Special 03/14— unmappedReview
12% of sales unmapped — hidden food cost until linked
POS sales & usage

Know what every sale consumes.

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

·Scheduled sales sync for supported POS sources
·Conversion factors for portions and combos
·Find unmapped items before they distort reports
AI assistant & insights

Ask your restaurant data a question.

A store-aware assistant that understands invoices, counts, recipes, and sales — and surfaces daily insights grounded in your own numbers, each with the next action.

See AI Insights →
Taro Assistant
Why did food cost go up this week?
Food cost rose 1.4 pts, mostly from chicken breast (+18%) on Tuesday's Sysco invoice. It affects 3 menu items — Pad Thai margin dropped most.
Open ingredientView invoice
Ask about inventory, recipes, invoices…
Reports & profit visibility

Reports that explain food cost.

From daily dashboard to month-end, every number ties back to the work behind it.

Variance report

Opening, purchases, ending, actual vs. theoretical, by category or area.

Sales mix

Item contribution, profit, and cost % so you know your real movers.

Ideal cost

What food cost should have been, against what actually moved.

Recipe costing

Current cost and margin across every menu and prep recipe.

Vendor spend

Where purchasing dollars go, by supplier and category.

Spending by GL account

Accounting-ready summaries for cleaner month-end review.

Roles & access

Staff, manager, admin, and super-admin levels. Give the right people the right access across stores.

Audit trail

A clear record of what changed, when, by whom, and where — invoices, counts, imports, and settings.

Accounting-ready spend

Chart of accounts, tax and fee setup, and GL summaries that make purchasing easier to review.

Integrations

Connects to the systems you already run.

Taro syncs sales from your POS and purchases from your suppliers, so counts, invoices, and food cost stay accurate without double entry.

POS

Pull sales and item-level data straight from Profitek to map dishes to recipes and track real food cost.

Supplier

Bring in orders and invoices from Sysco automatically, with prices and line items reconciled against your counts.

More integrations are on the way. Use a POS or supplier we don't list yet? We're always adding new connections and will work with you to build one.

Request an integration

See the whole platform on your numbers.

Book a walkthrough and we'll connect a sample of your invoices, recipes, and sales.