For restaurants on Square
Food cost software for Square restaurants
Smooth Ops is food cost software built for restaurants that run on Square. Through the Square integration, your sales, cash, and inventory import automatically, and you can model a menu price change against last month's real Square sales. Built by operators with 14+ years of operations across 20+ locations. Try it for 30 days free, no credit card.
Why Square-first food cost tracking is different
Most food cost tools were built around a different POS, or around no POS at all, and treat your sales data as an afterthought you upload by hand. When your restaurant runs on Square, the useful questions are cross-cutting: which dishes actually sold last month, what did their ingredients really cost that week, and what happens to margin if a price moves. Smooth Ops answers those from your live Square data instead of a stale export.
The other half of the loop is purchasing. You snap a photo of every supplier invoice, the AI reads each line, matches it to your catalog, and flags any price that moved since last time. You approve the change, and every dish that uses that ingredient re-costs itself. That is how plate cost stays current without a weekly spreadsheet session.
What you can do with it
Know the true cost of every plate
Build a recipe once and watch plate cost update itself as ingredient prices move. Dishes losing margin rise to the top against your target.
Scan invoices instead of typing them
Snap a photo and the AI reads every line. See how it works on the restaurant invoice scanning page.
Catch vendor price increases
Every invoice line is checked against your price history and anything that moved is flagged for your approval. More on how Smooth Ops helps you catch vendor overcharges.
Check your numbers before you commit
Want a quick gut check on a dish first? Use the free food cost calculator to cost a dish and set a target menu price.
One app, nine modules, start with one
Smooth Ops is one back-office app with nine modules: Food Cost, Invoices, Sourcing, Payments, Cash, Inventory, Tips, and Tasks. Each module is $25 a month per location, everything together is $99 a month per location, and Sourcing comes free with Food Cost and Invoices. Month to month, no contract. Start with one module, add more later.
Most Square restaurants start with Food Cost and Invoices, which is the pair that keeps every dish costed from real invoice prices.
Running a specific kind of shop? There are dedicated guides to food cost software for coffee shops, food trucks, pizza shops, bakeries, boba shops, bars, juice bars, and ghost kitchens. Running more than one location? The guide to food cost software for restaurant groups covers rolling out across 2 to 20 locations.
Food cost on Square, answered
How does Smooth Ops work with Square?+
Sales, cash, and inventory import from Square automatically. Square reports feed the Cash module for reconciliation, and you can model a menu price change against last month's real Square sales.
Do I have to buy the whole suite?+
No. Smooth Ops is one app with modules: Food Cost, Invoices, Sourcing, Payments, Cash, Inventory, Tips, and Tasks. Start with one module at $25 a month per location and add more later. Everything together is $99 a month per location.
How does the food cost tracking stay current?+
You snap a photo of each supplier invoice. The AI reads every line, matches it to your catalog, and flags any price that moved since last time. You approve the change and every dish that uses that ingredient re-costs itself.
Do I need to replace my POS?+
No. Smooth Ops sits alongside Square and imports your reports. Nothing about how you ring up sales changes.
Is there a contract?+
No. Month to month, cancel anytime, and you can try everything first: 30 days free, no credit card.
See your real food cost this week
Connect Square, snap a few invoices, and every dish is costed by day 3. Start with one module at $25 a month per location.
30 days free, no credit card