Count on phone, scan UPCs, import items with AI, and send orders to vendors.
AI-first restaurant inventory
Start with invoices or an inventory list and let AI organize your products, vendors, pack sizes and prices. Add your menu to begin building recipes and food costs from the products you actually buy.
Count on your phone, compare vendors, send orders and keep every cost current as new invoices arrive. Add photos or recipe details whenever you want more depth.
Free trial · No credit card · Unlimited users
Free trial · No credit card required.
You don’t need everything before you start. Get a useful inventory first. Add more when it helps.
Upload invoices, order guides, spreadsheets, PDFs or an existing list. AI identifies items, vendors, pack sizes, purchase units and current prices.
Now you can count and order inventory—and compare vendor prices.
Share your website or menu URL, a menu PDF or other menu files. AI uses your inventory and the products you actually purchase to create a useful recipe-book and food-costing starting point.
Now you can see plate costs and model recipe changes before they reach the menu.
Dish photos, existing recipes, recipe books and prep notes improve ingredient quantities, yields and costs. None of them are required to begin.
Now you can improve portion sizes, yields and costing with your own restaurant detail.
Bring invoices, inventory, menus, recipes and vendor data together. AI can compare purchasing options, show plate costs changing with prices and read emailed invoices to keep everything current.
It all starts with one import.
Count inventory where the work happens. Use a phone in the liquor room, walk-in, prep area, or storage room, then turn real counts into vendor-ready orders.
Count food, liquor, beer, wine, prep and supplies on a phone, tablet or computer. Multiple users can work across the walk-in, bar, cellar and storage rooms at the same time.
Use reusable count templates for ordering counts, spot counts and end-of-period inventory. Count one storage location or the whole operation.
Scan UPCs where appropriate, switch devices as you work and keep every counter on the same live inventory.
Set PAR levels so the count shows what needs to be purchased, then carry that need into ordering.
Countertop turns a count into purchasing decisions, not just a total on a screen.
Compare equivalent products across vendors, with current prices and normalized pack or unit pricing where the products can be compared reliably.
Choose better purchasing options, group items by vendor, generate purchase orders and email them directly. Vendors need no Countertop account or portal.
Track sent, opened, amended, replaced, voided and completed orders, with a clear record of what changed.
Forward or receive invoices in Countertop, or scan them from your phone. AI extracts the lines, matches them to inventory and keeps your purchasing picture current.
Add a menu after your inventory is in place. AI can draft editable recipes tied wherever possible to the products you actually purchase and their current vendor costs.
Use your website, a menu URL, PDF or menu files to create a useful first draft—not a claim of a perfect final recipe.
Add dish photos, existing recipes, recipe books, prep notes, portions and yields whenever you want more accuracy.
Connect recipe ingredients to inventory products so changing vendor prices flow into ingredient and food costs.
Countertop doesn’t require you to change your POS, vendors or accounting system. Export a PDF or CSV from the systems you already use and let AI turn it into structured Countertop data.
Bring the data you have. No proprietary integration is required to start.
Inventory, recipes, prices, counts and orders improve each other. New invoices keep the loop current.
Start with what you have. Add more when it helps.
From setup through end-of-period reporting, Countertop keeps restaurant inventory and purchasing in one place.
Manage items, categories, pack sizes, vendors, storage locations, multiple stores and reusable count templates.
Run ordering, spot and period-end counts, use PAR levels and review inventory, COGS and purchasing information.
Relate equivalent multi-vendor products, compare trustworthy prices and keep a history of what each supplier charged.
Create and email purchase orders, track order email activity and compare what was ordered with what was invoiced.
Create editable recipes, connect ingredients to inventory and calculate costs from current purchasing prices.
Bring the whole team. Multiple people can count and work together without per-seat fees.
Use Countertop for hotel restaurants, bars, banquet prep, room-service storage, kitchens, and beverage programs. Count each storage area separately, roll totals together, and send orders to the vendors you already use — hotel foodservice inventory software that works the way a property already runs.
Food, prep, dry storage, walk-ins, and kitchens.
Liquor, beer, wine, mixers, cages, and beverage storage.
Event prep, recurring templates, and storage-area counts.
Shared vendors, separate locations, and cleaner reports.
Hospitality inventory software for the way your team already counts and orders. Jump to the guide that matches your operation.
Food inventory, prep, and dry storage counts with vendor ordering and restaurant purchase orders.
Liquor inventory plus beer and wine inventory, counted by the bottle or the case with full price history.
Retail SKUs, supplies, and prep in one clean catalog with vendor and pack size on every line.
Restaurants, bars, banquets, and storage rooms in one property.
Shared vendors and consistent purchasing reports across every location.
Unlimited users. Use your own vendors. Cancel when you choose.
More answers on the full FAQ page.
Not unless you want to. Countertop runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet, or laptop — or use the native iOS or Android app for offline counting in the walk-in. One login syncs every device in real time.
Yes. Build POs straight from a count and email any vendor you already work with — no portal, no marketplace, no asking your rep to sign up. Re-send, amend, replace, and void are all one click with a full audit trail.
Yes. Paste your menu URL or upload the PDF and AI extracts every ingredient. Drop in a distributor order guide, invoice, or price sheet and items come back mapped to vendors and pack sizes. Need to fill a gap mid-count? Scan the UPC with your iPhone or iPad — no barcode scanner required.
Liquor, beer, wine, food, prep, retail SKUs, and supplies — across the categories and locations you define. Build templates so every walk-in, liquor room, and storage area counts the same way every week.
$49/month or $490/year per store with unlimited users included — free trial, cancel anytime.
Forward the documents you already receive. Scan the products already on your shelves. Let Countertop turn that information into inventory, orders, updated prices and purchasing totals.
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