Control:Pantry
Control:Pantry · Inventory & food cost

Know your kitchen, to the gram.

Pantry tracks every ingredient, every plate, every pour. It builds your weekly order from real usage, watches for waste, and tells you which supplier is quietly costing you a Sunday brunch in margin.

27.6%Food cost · vs. 30% target
−€42Weekly waste, trending down
Weekly count, by photo
Pantry/ Order draft · Mon
5 suppliers
Pantry suggestion · This week

Switch parmesan to La Tradition. Save €184 / week.

Same wheel rotation, same delivery window. 12% under current price.

Suggested order · Mon delivery€1,184
  • Duck breast, magret
    +12% forecast
    16 kg€456
  • Lobster, live
    Replenish to par
    6 kg€228
  • Sourdough loaves
    42 loaves€189
  • Sancerre 2022
    Pairing menu
    18 bottles€324
Send to suppliersAdjust
7 of 12 stock items at par · 2 criticalFood cost 27.6% ↓
The problem

A 28% food cost isn't a number on a spreadsheet. It's every dish.

And the kitchen knows it long before the books do.

Counts that take three hours and three guesses

Sunday night clipboard, blue tape on the walk-in, mental math at the bar. Then you over-order anyway, just in case.

Recipes priced six months ago

Butter went up 18%, the duck supplier nudged 4%, the wine list rolled over. None of the recipe cards know. The plate is quietly losing margin every night.

Waste that hides in plain sight

Half the over-prep gets eaten by staff. Spoilage lives between counts. By the time the P&L lands, the leak is already a habit.

The kitchen

One screen that knows every gram in the room.

Drafted weekly order. Live stock. Real recipe cost. Waste flagged by pattern, not by who's on the iPad.

Brasserie De Vijf· Amsterdam
Week ending Sun, May 18
Food cost
27.6%
-3.8 pts
Weekly waste
€119
€-42
Par adherence
91%
+14 pts
Avg days on hand
4.6
stable
Food cost · 7 weeks

27.6%

-3.8 pts vs Apr
30% target
W14W15W16W17W18W19W20
Pantry pulse · Today
  • Switch parmesan supplier — €184 / week

    Reggiano 24mo from Kaashuis Tromp is 12% above the regional average. La Tradition is offering the same wheel rotation at €33.40/kg. Same delivery window. Projected save: €184/week at current usage.

  • Risotto base over-prepped 3 Saturdays in a row

    Saturday risotto base prep ran 1.4 kg / 1.6 kg / 1.2 kg over actual usage. Recipe yields are off by 18% from the spec. Bring the Saturday prep down by 1.3 kg — costs you €18/week.

  • Duck food cost down to 26.8%

    Dropped from 31.4% in March. The supplier renegotiation and the trim discipline you started in April are both showing. Hold the line: re-checked next month.

Order draft · Mon delivery

One order, five suppliers.

1566

7 of 7 lines · sent at 06:30

De Reus Slagerij

456
  • Duck breast, magret
    16 kg456
    Forecast +12% over last week; festival promo Fri

Hubert Visgroothandel

396
  • Lobster, live
    6 kg228
    Replenish to par; sole and lobster down 8% — checking
  • Sole, Dover
    4 kg168
    Light week — covers running ~28 / wk

Le Perron

189
  • Sourdough loaves
    42 loaf189
    Friday and Saturday tasting menus

Henri Bourgeois NL

324
  • Sancerre, Chavignol 2022
    18 bottle324
    Pairing menu through next Sunday

Kaashuis Tromp

132
  • Beurre Bordier
    6 kg132
    Tight on stock; weekend prep needs 5.2 kg

Streekboer Zuid

69
  • Heirloom tomatoes
    6 kg69
    Carryover stock fine; light reorder

Pantry compares each line to last 4 weeks. Forecast adjusts for upcoming events.

How Pantry knows

Four data streams, one truth.

Most inventory tools rely on a chef remembering to count something on a clipboard. Pantry pulls from the work your kitchen already does — registers, scales, taps, and supplier confirmations — and cross-checks them against each other.

Linked to your register

Live event stream

Every plate sold deducts the exact recipe ingredients in real time. If a Bavette goes out, 200g of beef leaves the walk-in on the spot.

Bluetooth scale at the prep station

0.5g resolution

Prep weighs in. Yield weighs out. Pantry sees the loss in trimming and tells you when your prime cuts are quietly costing you.

Expediter taps + waste log

One-finger entry

Comps, sends, drops — the things your POS doesn't see. A tap on the iPad and it's accounted for.

Supplier delivery confirmations

PDF + EDI

Pantry reads the invoice the moment it lands, reconciles against what was ordered, and flags the gap if a crate is short.

Pantry reconciles all four streams every 5 minutes. When they disagree — say, the register shows 12 covers but only 11 mains weighed out — Pantry surfaces it. That's usually where the bleeding is happening.
Cross-checked
Order automation

One basket. Every supplier's favourite format.

Sligro takes EDI. Boer Wim wants a PDF on email. The bakery still prefers a phone call. Pantry builds the weekly basket from real usage and sends it the way each supplier actually accepts orders — no more switching between four different ordering rituals.

This week's basketMon · Week 22
  • Sligro Hospitality
    Dry goods · proteins
    Method
    EDI feed
    Structured order over EDI · auto-acknowledged
    This week
    47 lines · €2,840
    confirmed
  • Boer Wim
    Local farm · produce
    Method
    Email + PDF
    Generates a PDF in his preferred order template, body in Dutch
    This week
    12 lines · €410
    sent
  • Vinotheek Amsterdam
    Wine + spirits
    Method
    Web portal
    Posts the order to their portal via login + 2FA flow
    This week
    18 lines · €1,920
    confirmed
  • De Bakker Centrum
    Daily bakery
    Method
    Phone call + SMS
    Drafts the call script, sends SMS confirmation card to manager
    This week
    8 lines · €280
    queued
Pantry handles the format. You see one basket, one approval, one send. Every supplier gets exactly what they expect.
How it works

Half a day in your kitchen. Two weeks to clarity.

01We map your kitchen

Every recipe card, every supplier, every shelf

We come in for a half-day. Photograph the walk-in, build your recipe cards, link your suppliers. By the end of the week your kitchen is digital — without anyone having to type it in.

02Pantry learns your rhythm

Real usage, real forecasts, real par levels

Pantry watches what actually gets used by station, by daypart, by event. Par levels self-adjust. The Friday duck order is bigger than the Tuesday one — because Pantry knows that.

03Monday morning, one order

Draft order, all suppliers, one approval

Pantry compiles your week into one screen on Monday at 6am. Approve the lines, send to suppliers in their preferred format. Adjust whatever feels off. The kitchen never runs out, never sits on dead stock.

Why it's different

Built around the kitchen. Not the spreadsheet.

Inventory tools were designed by accountants. Pantry was designed by a chef who'd had enough of clipboards.

Counting by photo, not by clipboard

Take a picture of the shelf, the walk-in, the wine rack. Pantry reads counts off the photo. Sunday stock check goes from three hours to twelve minutes.

Recipes that re-price themselves

When a supplier price changes, every recipe using that ingredient updates the next morning. You see margin drift on the plate before it shows up in the P&L.

Supplier comparisons, ranked

Pantry tracks what you pay against the regional benchmark. When La Tradition is undercutting your Reggiano supplier by 12%, you see it — with the saving in euros per week.

Waste that pattern-matches itself

Pantry doesn't just log waste — it spots the third Saturday over-prep in a row, the spike after a walk-in temp event, the comp that traces back to an allergen miss. The leaks find you.

Cost of inaction

What an unmeasured kitchen quietly costs.

The annual numbers below are conservative estimates for a small multi-location kitchen running on intuition and a Friday stock count. The bleeding is invisible because nobody's looking at the line items.

Food cost drift

Without active management, food cost creeps 1–2 points above target. On a modest monthly food spend, that's a few hundred euros quietly leaving every month.

per year8,400

Waste you don't see

Trim losses, over-portioning, spoilage in the walk-in. A few percent of stock per month is conservative for a kitchen without instrumentation.

per year6,000

Silent supplier creep

Prices on the invoice quietly drift. Pack sizes shift. Without line-by-line reconciliation, the only one watching is the supplier.

per year2,400
Annual bleed, today

What you're paying every year just to keep the kitchen running the way it's running.

~€16,800

per year

Figures shown are illustrative estimates for demonstration. Final scope, pricing, and projected impact are set together when we discuss your specific situation.

A standing offer

We'll find €1,000 in your walk-in. In half a day.

Book a kitchen visit. We'll spend a service mapping your stock and recipes. If the first weekly report doesn't surface at least €1,000 of recoverable margin, we don't take the project.

Where Pantry sits in the market
MarketMan (Operator tier)~€230 / location / mo
MarginEdge~€280 / location / mo
CrunchTime€450+ / location / mo
Pantry, standard rate€399 / location / mo

Pantry's standard rate sits inside the premium tier. We're still building toward parity with the established platforms — and one developing partner per product gets year-one access below the comparable market rate while we get there.

Standard investment
Pantry monthly€399 / location / mo
One-time setup€2,000 (flat)

Monthly rate is per kitchen — one tier across every location of the group. Setup is flat regardless of count: wiring Pantry to your register, configuring the Bluetooth scales, ingesting your recipe book, and onboarding supplier ordering rituals.

The launch path
  1. 01
    Discovery + buildIncluded in setup

    ~1 month of focused development. We wire Pantry to your register, ingest your recipe book, and configure the photo-counting flow for your kitchen.

  2. 02
    Weekly cadenceIncluded in setup

    Stand-ups every week until the product is stable, adopted by your team, and producing the weekly report that pays for itself.

  3. 03
    Year contract beginsYear 1 starts here

    Your developing-partner year starts when the product graduates, not when you sign. Until then, you only owe the setup fee.

Developing partner
1 of 1 slots open
  • Year one
    post-graduation · billed annually
    €199 / loc / mo
  • Year two onwards
    permanent founding-partner rate, locked while you stay
    €299 / loc / mo
  • Standard
    for reference — what new customers pay post-launch
    €399 / loc / mo

One operator per Control product launches it with us. You're in early when the product is still being shaped — your input lands in the roadmap, and you go on record as the first kitchen running Pantry. After year one, your rate steps to the founding-partner permanent. You never pay full sticker. Standard is for the kitchens who came after.

By appointment · Built and supported by Control.