Inventory and recipes

How stock is tracked, how recipes let a sale automatically deplete ingredients, and how till purchases add stock back in.

For a restaurant, the ingredient behind a menu item is what actually runs out — not the dish itself. Recipes connect the two, so selling a burger can automatically take the right amount of beef, buns, and cheese off your shelf.

Setting up a recipe

You tell Ryde how many of a menu item you get out of a given quantity of an ingredient — like "20 burgers from 5 lb of beef" — and the app works out how much of that ingredient a single sale uses. Ryde AI can help you set this up by asking you a few simple questions about your menu.

A newly suggested recipe doesn't touch your stock counts until you confirm it. And editing a confirmed recipe puts it back into review, so a change never silently applies before you've checked it.

Restocking with a till purchase

When you buy supplies from a vendor, record it as a till purchase: pick the supplier, photograph the invoice and the goods, and Ryde reads the items and quantities automatically. Once you finalize it, the purchase both logs the cash spent and adds the stock to your inventory in one step.