What Varastiq does
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Key takeaway: Varastiq is restaurant back-office software that shows where your profit goes, in plain English. It covers six jobs: live plate cost, variance and theft flags, invoice capture, inventory counts, recipe costing and prime cost. Your team uses the Stiq app in a mobile web browser.
What it's worth: one point of food cost on $1M in food sales is $10,000 a year. Varastiq helps you review item usage in reporting and large count changes while counting.
Which feature fixes which problem?
| If this is your problem | Start here |
|---|---|
| You don't know what a dish really costs today | Live plate cost |
| Product disappears and you find out weeks later | Variance and theft flags |
| Ingredient prices change and your costing doesn't | Invoice capture |
| The weekly count takes all morning and nobody trusts it | Inventory counts |
| Your recipe cards live in a binder or a stale spreadsheet | Recipe costing |
| You see food cost and labor in separate places, late | Prime cost |
How do the features connect?
They share one set of records. Review and post an invoice to record ingredient purchase prices; those prices flow into the recipes and preps that use them. Stiq compares the entered item total with the previous count and flags large changes for a second look. Sales from Toast, or a supported item-level sales report, turn recipes into theoretical usage. Recorded labor costs complete prime cost.
You can see every piece on its own page, or try the math first with our free calculators.
Frequently asked questions
What is Varastiq?
Varastiq is restaurant back-office software for food cost, plate margin and prime cost. Teams count inventory in the Stiq app, capture invoices and cost recipes, and Varastiq shows live plate cost and flags variance during the count.
Which POS systems does Varastiq work with?
Varastiq connects to Toast read-only. Supported item-level sales reports can be imported; check your export format with us first. Without a POS, counts, costing and ordering still work.
How much does Varastiq cost?
Varastiq Pro includes the core restaurant workflow. Live integrations are an optional add-on. Confirm connection availability, add-on pricing and optional AI features in your owner portal. Varastiq Pro is $149 a month for the first location plus $99 a month for each additional location, or $1,639 a year plus $1,089 a year for each additional location (1 month free). Guided setup is optional at $299, one-time. See pricing.