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Stock, counted in ingredients.
Purchases in, recipe-driven consumption out, wastage logged - one ingredient-level ledger across the kitchen and the store.
Functionality
What ingredient inventory does
Ingredient-level ledger
Stock is held in ingredients - kilos of flour and litres of oil, not just finished dishes - so what the kitchen actually uses is what the system actually tracks.
Purchases flow in
Goods bought are recorded into stock, so the ledger reflects what came in as well as what went out.
Consumption via recipes
Every dish billed deducts its recipe’s ingredients automatically - consumption records itself as you trade. Explore →
Wastage, logged
Spoilage, spillage and write-offs are recorded against stock - the ledger explains where stock went, not just that it’s gone.
Kitchen and store, one view
Stock across the kitchen and the front store sits in one system - no parallel registers to reconcile.
Variance shows shrinkage
Expected stock - purchases minus recipe consumption and logged wastage - against actual counts. The difference is shrinkage, surfaced in numbers.
How it works
The ingredient ledger, day to day
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Purchases come in
Goods bought are recorded into ingredient stock - kilos, litres and pieces, not just finished dishes.
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Sales draw it down
Every dish billed deducts its recipe’s ingredients automatically - consumption accumulates as you trade, with no end-of-day entry.
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Wastage gets logged
Spoilage, spillage and write-offs are recorded against stock - the ledger explains where stock went, not just that it’s gone.
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Kitchen and store stay one view
Back-of-house and the front store sit in a single system - no parallel registers to reconcile.
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Variance names the shrinkage
Expected stock - purchases minus recipe consumption and logged wastage - against actual counts. The difference is shrinkage, in numbers.
Outcomes
What changes in the store room
Ordering gets sharper
A live ledger shows what’s actually running down, so purchases track consumption instead of habit.
Buy what you use.Wastage stops hiding
Logged wastage and computed variance turn “stock seems to vanish” into a number with a cause.
Shrinkage, named.Stock-takes get shorter
Counts reconcile against a live expected figure - the audit starts from data, not from zero.
Hours, not days.Food cost holds steady
Consumption discipline at ingredient level is what keeps recipe costing honest.
The ledger behind the margin.Where it fits
Store rooms with a number on everything
Restaurants, cloud kitchens and food courts all bleed margin in the store room; ingredient-level discipline is what keeps recipe costing honest and purchasing tied to what the kitchen actually uses. For chains, the same ledger runs identically in every outlet.
Downstream, the data keeps moving: purchase and inventory records flow into your ERP, and consumption patterns surface in F&B analytics.
Questions, answered.
At what level is stock tracked?
At ingredient level - raw materials in their own units (kilos, litres, pieces) across the kitchen and store, not just finished dishes.
How is consumption recorded?
Automatically, through recipes. Each dish billed deducts its ingredients from stock, so consumption accumulates as you sell.
Can wastage be recorded?
Yes. Spoilage and other write-offs are logged against stock, so the ledger accounts for stock that didn’t become a sale.
How does DINO show shrinkage?
By variance: expected stock from purchases, recipe consumption and logged wastage is compared with actual stock - the gap is shrinkage, visible in numbers.
Do purchases go into the system too?
Yes. Goods purchased are recorded into ingredient stock, keeping the inward side of the ledger current.
Does inventory data reach my ERP or accounts?
Yes. Purchase and inventory data can flow into your ERP through DINO’s ERP integration.
How is restaurant inventory different from retail inventory?
Retail tracks what it sells - finished SKUs on a shelf. A restaurant sells dishes but consumes ingredients, so stock has to be held in kilos and litres and drawn down through recipes as dishes are billed. DINO’s ledger is ingredient-first for exactly that reason.
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