Skip to content
About Tech for Tabs

Made for the people who close.

Restaurants are run by people who do two jobs: one on the floor until close, and one in the office after it. Tech for Tabs is for the second job — so it takes minutes, not the rest of the night.

It started in a back office, not a boardroom.

Tech for Tabs began as the back-office system for a single busy cocktail bar — built next to the bar, used every night, and rewritten every time it got something wrong. Invoices on a clipboard became a price ledger. A recipe spreadsheet nobody trusted became live plate and pour cost. A P&L that arrived on the 20th became one that updates every day.

Then other operators asked for it — a café that wanted the dairy bill under control, a group that needed three locations side by side, a kitchen that wanted its prep list to know it was Saturday. So we made every part of it a module, added a point of sale, a kitchen display, reservations and scheduling, and put it all on one login.

Today Tech for Tabs is 23 modules you can buy as a plan or one at a time, for every kind of room — from a food truck to a hotel with five outlets.

What we believe

Four rules the whole system is built on.

They're why the numbers in Tech for Tabs are the ones you can take to your accountant, your partners and your bank.

01

Price history is the product.

Every approved invoice line writes a price event that is never updated or deleted. When the numbers are argued about — with a vendor, an accountant, or yourself — there is one record everyone can trust.

02

Nothing reaches the ledger until a person approves it.

AI can read an invoice and a CSV can create one, but neither can post it. A typo corrected thirty seconds later never becomes a price change, and whoever codes an invoice can't approve it.

03

A number that can't be computed is never guessed.

A recipe line whose units don't convert, or whose item has no price yet, says so. A plate cost that is quietly 40% low is worse than no plate cost at all.

04

Your house, your words.

Rename anything, hide anything, reorder anything. Software should fit the way a restaurant already works — not make a bar talk like a hotel.

The name

Why “Tabs”?

A tab is the smallest unit of a restaurant's business: a guest, an order, a promise to pay. Our mark is the paper guest check a server carries — torn at the bottom, two printed lines. Everything we build should be as simple and as dependable as that piece of paper.

Close the books before you close the doors.

Start a 14-day free trial of any plan. No credit card, no setup fee, and your data is yours from day one.