Restoke.ai

Restaurant margins in 2025: 2.8%. yep, not a joke! 1 in 9 venues went under last year. The operators who survive this won't be the ones working harder. They'll be the ones who finally stopped flying blind. Restoke.ai got a feature in today's RealCommercial piece — alongside Johnny Di Francesco of Gradi, who said it best: recipes used to live across Excel spreadsheets. Now every cost moves the moment the market does. You can't fix what you can't see. To every operator still in the shit.. I've been there, the craft is worth it. The grind isn't. (not a single hair left on my head) We're building you a kitchen that fights for you. Less spreadsheet. More sauté. Article 👇

Supplier price creep is one of the most overlooked margin killers in hospitality. It doesn’t show up all at once. It slips in—invoice by invoice—until your food costs are out of line. For teams like The Woodfired Oven, Restoke puts them back in control. Price changes get caught early, not after the damage is done. “I love how Restoke helps us manage everything—from compliance to recipe costing—and check supplier pricing so we don’t miss the price increases. Restoke is very powerful and a great tool for any hospo business.” Less firefighting. More control over your margins.

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Menu changes can transform a business, but they can also make cost control harder. That’s the challenge LifeGrain faced after a major menu overhaul and supplier change. Recipes lived in spreadsheets, ingredient prices kept shifting, and it was difficult to see how those changes affected margins. With Restoke, the team connected recipes directly to supplier pricing, gaining real-time visibility into their costs. The result: a sustained 7% reduction in COGS — even as ingredient prices change. Clear visibility. Faster decisions. Stronger margins. Explore the full story: https://bit.ly/4sSmQKI

One of the most dangerous moments in a restaurant isn’t obvious. It’s when a high-volume dish quietly becomes unprofitable. No alarms. No clear signal. Just your margins slipping away over time. It’s something Assaf Stizki, our CEO & Co-Founder, talks about on the Unicorns Podcast—and something we help venues solve every day. When operators can see what’s really happening, the impact can be significant—up to ~$22k/month back in the operation within 6–8 months. 🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4dtt3Z1

In hospitality, inefficiencies add up fast. Extra time guessing what to prep. Overmaking and throwing it away. Last-minute scrambles during service. For Espresso Cafeto, that was the daily reality until they introduced Restoke. “We don’t have to keep asking what to make. It’s already there.” With clearer inventory and processes in place, the team spends less time figuring things out and more time executing. Less waste. Better efficiency. More focus on the experience. Restoke is made to take the guesswork out of daily operations.

Restoke now integrates with MYOB Acumatica 🎉 When you connect MYOB Acumatica to Restoke, invoices flow straight from ops into accounting – costs, inventory, and margins update automatically ‼️ No late-night data entry. No double handling. No paying the same bill twice. Just sharper numbers, cleaner books, and a live view of your margins. Thanks to Luke Simmons and the MYOB team 🙏

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After many years in the trenches of hospitality, I’ve been reflecting on the journey that got me here. Hospitality is an industry that teaches you resilience, humility, and the true meaning of hard work. Long nights, early mornings, pressure-filled services, and countless lessons learned along the way. Like many of us, I made mistakes, learned the hard way, and grew through every challenge the industry threw at me. Those experiences shaped not just my career, but the way I approach leadership, teamwork, and the responsibility we have to the next generation of hospitality professionals. Now, stepping into a new role, I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to give back to the industry that gave me so much. My focus now is on education, mentorship, and helping others navigate hospitality without having to repeat some of the mistakes that were simply accepted as “the way things were” in the old days. We are Restoke.ai 🔥 Not just another Ai company entering hospitality. We are deeply committed to understanding the real challenges operators face every day — the pressures, the margins, the complexity of running great venues. Our mission is simple: help hospitality businesses run smarter, scalable, more sustainable operations while protecting the heart of what makes hospitality special — people. We’re building tools that empower operators, support teams, and give the industry the technology it actually deserves. Not tech for the sake of tech, but solutions & strategies designed by people who truly understand the business. We are hospitality. Here’s to building a better future for hospitality together. 🔥🚀 #Hospitality #HospitalityIndustry #AI #HospitalityTech #Leadership #Mentorship

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