Prime cost = Food + Labor

You're making sales.
Are you making money?

Your profit leaks where you never see it — the walk-in, the prep line, the garbage can. Varastiq reads your menu, invoices, and counts, and shows you the leak in dollars, per item, per week.

Request a demo → 20 minutes · on your real menu
The leak you can't see

Your food cost isn't a monthly surprise. It's a daily one you're not measuring.

Most kitchens count to check a box. Varastiq counts to catch the money moving — the moment it moves.

Each count
Compare what's on the shelf with recorded deliveries and sales usage. Investigate the gap while the details are fresh.
Your prices
Cost recipes from your recorded purchases. See which ingredients drive the dollars on each plate.
One view
Bring counts, invoices, recipes and recorded labor together for the period you're reviewing.
What Varastiq does

Five ways it pays for itself before the month closes.

Counts in walk order

Walk your restaurant. Count in the same order.

Set up your storage areas in the order you actually walk them — cooler, freezer, dry, bar, prep. Every count follows that path. Search for an item, enter the quantity or measured weight, and continue. Drafts save on your device while you're offline.

  • Simple setup — your areas, in your walk order
  • Every count follows that path, fully resumable
  • Count by weight, case, each, or prep build
✓
Waffle Frieslast 9 cs
8 cs
🍗
Boneless Wingstap to count
28 lb
🥩
Ribeye 12 ozexpires in 2 days
Exp
Catch variance & theft

A big drop gets flagged on the spot.

Stiq compares your entered item total with the previous count and flags large changes for a second look. Use sales-based usage reporting separately to investigate the difference between recipes, deliveries and actual stock.

  • Large changes from the previous count
  • Recount or log the variance in one tap
  • Submitted counts appear in the owner portal
⚠That's a big dropworth a second look
Expected
~28lb
Counted
4lb
Change
−86%
Always order to par

Submit a count, get the order.

Every count updates what's below par. The moment you submit, your order to par is built by vendor — no over-buying, no 86'd specials on a Friday night.

  • Par levels tracked per item
  • Order built by vendor, ready to send
  • Never double-buy what's already on the shelf
📦
Order to par ready2 vendors
build
Waffle Fries8 → par 24
+16 cs
Boneless Wings4 → par 60 lb
+56 lb
Know your real numbers

See the dollars on your shelf, right now.

The value of your inventory, live, and exactly how it moved since last week. Food cost stops being a number you find out about after the month closes.

  • Live on-hand dollar value
  • Week-over-week movement
  • Break it down by area or category
On your shelf right now
$14,280
+$370 vs last week
Cut waste & catch expiry early

Use it before you lose it.

Expiration dates are flagged before they happen: items nearing their date rise to the top of the list, with the dollars at risk right beside them. Turn a would-be write-off into tonight's special.

  • Expiry surfaced first, automatically
  • Dollars-at-risk on every flag
  • Waste logged, not guessed
⏳
Ribeye 12 ozexpires in 2 days
$210
🥬
Spring Mixexpires tomorrow
$44
Counting without the guesswork

Same shelf, counted two ways. Only one tells you the value in real time.

The old way
Boneless Wingshow many cases again?
≈ 5?
Value on shelfask the owner at month-end
?
That missing productnoticed 3 weeks later
—
With Varastiq
✓
Boneless Wingsweighed · 4 lb on hand
$16
Value on shelflive, right now
$14,280
Wings varianceflagged at the count
−86%
What it's worth to you

The money you're leaving on the shelf.

Explore an illustrative reduction in food spend from less over-ordering, waste and unexplained variance. This is a planning scenario, not measured customer results.

Monthly food purchases, per location$45,000
Locations1

Estimate only, based on a 3% midpoint recovery. Your results depend on your menu, prep, and how tightly you run par.

Estimated recovered / year
$16,200
range $10,800 – $21,600
How it works

From walk-in to order to par in one pass.

🚶
STEP 01

Walk & count

Open the app and follow your areas in walk order. Enter quantities or measured weights. Drafts save on your device in the walk-in; submit when you're back online.

⚠️
STEP 02

Review variance

Before you submit, Varastiq shows what doesn't add up — big drops, pending items, things expiring — so nothing slips through.

📦
STEP 03

Order to par

Submit, and Varastiq builds your order — everything below par, grouped by the vendor you buy it from, ready to send. Your on-shelf value updates and the owner sees it all — instantly.

See it in action

A closer look at your next shift.

Short walkthroughs of counts, recipes, and costs. Choose a video to see the app at work.

Pricing

Varastiq Pro. Two ways to pay.

One plan for your operation. Choose monthly or save one month with annual billing. Self-serve signup is temporarily unavailable. Request a demo or contact us to discuss Varastiq Pro.

Pro monthly
Billed monthly · 1–10 locations
$149first location / month

$99/month for each additional location, up to 10 total.

  • Guided counts & walk-order areas
  • Menu & recipe costing
  • Variance flags at the count
  • Order to par, by vendor
  • 14-day money-back guarantee on software
Pro annual1 month free
Billed annually · 1–10 locations
$1,639first location / year

$1,089/year for each additional location, up to 10 total.

  • Everything in Pro monthly
  • Same features, one annual payment
  • One month free compared with monthly billing
  • 30-day money-back guarantee on software

Optional guided setup: $299 one-time, only if you choose it. Guided setup is excluded from the software money-back guarantee and is non-refundable once completed. A demo request does not create a subscription or collect a payment. Prices exclude applicable tax.

Have 11 or more locations? Request a custom quote →

Questions

The things owners ask us first.

Pro is $149/month for the first location plus $99/month for each additional location, or $1,639/year plus $1,089/year. Self-serve signup is temporarily unavailable. Request a demo or contact us to discuss Varastiq Pro. The software money-back guarantee runs from your first software payment: 14 days on monthly plans and 30 days on annual plans. Optional guided setup is $299 once if you choose it, excluded from the software guarantee and non-refundable once completed. Published rates cover 1–10 locations; 11+ get a custom quote.

It depends on your item list, storage areas and routine. Counts follow your walk order, with item search and manual quantity entry, so you can record the count where the items live.

Yes. The app is offline-first. It saves every entry on the device and syncs the moment you're back on signal — you'll never lose a count to a dead spot in the freezer.

Toast connects read-only. Supported item-level sales reports can also be imported; check your export format with us first. Counts, recipe costing and ordering work without a live POS connection.

No. Stiq runs in a modern web browser on the phone or tablet your team already has. Enter quantities manually, or weigh partial packs on your own scale and enter the measured weight.

The current count-screen guard flags large changes from the previous item count so you can recount before submitting. Use sales-based usage reporting to compare recipes, sales, deliveries and counts. A flag is a prompt to investigate; it is not proof of theft.

Stiq uses large tap targets, item search and counts arranged in your storage-area order. Start with one area so your team can learn the routine using your own items.

Your on-shelf dollar value updates, an order to par is built by vendor, submitted count results appear in the owner portal, and anything expiring is surfaced so you use it first.

You do. Your menu, prices, and counts are never shared with your vendors or your distributor, and you can take your data with you or revoke access at any time.

Something else? 💬 Ask Vara — answers now, no sales pressure.

Request a demo

See Varastiq on your kitchen.

We'll count one of your areas together and show you the money it surfaces — live, on your real inventory. No slides.

  • See your on-shelf dollar value in minutes
  • Watch it flag a real variance
  • Leave with an order-to-par you can send
Locations
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No commitment · 20 minutes · we count a real area together