How methodus works
Recipes become costed fiches. Invoices keep prices honest. Your POS proves the margin. And the team trains on the same standard. The whole loop, and the six features that carry it.
Watch the loop run.
The real product, silent by design: a recipe gets costed, an invoice lands, the margin updates.
The loop, end to end.
Speak the recipe. 35 seconds, zero typing.
Record a voice note at the pass or behind the bar. methodus extracts ingredients, quantities, technique, and allergens into a clean fiche your team can read mid-service. Photo and text import work too.
True food cost, down to the yield.
A kilo of limes is not a kilo of juice. methodus costs every recipe from AP to EP: purchase price, trim and yield loss, house-made preps cascaded into every fiche that uses them.
Drop in an invoice. Prices update everywhere.
Photograph or upload a supplier invoice. methodus reads the lines, matches them to your ingredients, and refreshes the cost of every fiche they touch. Your margins stay current without a single spreadsheet.
Your till feeds the margin, every night.
methodus connects to Zelty and Lightspeed and pulls daily sales automatically. Every sold item is matched to its fiche, so theoretical cost meets what actually went out.
The team learns the same fiche.
Every fiche generates quizzes automatically. Your team takes them on their phones; you see who is certified on what, timestamped. Standards hold even when people change.
$2.40 vs $3.85
What most bars think a Margarita costs, and what it actually costs once yield and prep losses are in.
What's inside, page by page.
Six features, each with its own deep page: the details, the numbers, and the honest limits.
Recipe costing
Dictate a recipe or snap the card; methodus builds the costed fiche with yields, preps, allergens and margin, and keeps it honest as supplier prices move. Eleven PDF exports, version history, one library for bar and kitchen.
See the full page →Menu import
Upload the carte as a PDF or a photo. Every dish and cocktail becomes a draft fiche with estimated costs that hand over to invoice prices. A full carte in an afternoon, not weeks of typing.
See the full page →Invoice scanning
Photograph, upload or forward supplier invoices. Every line is read and checked against the printed totals, prices update, and the fiches re-cost the same day. Price history per ingredient and supplier included.
See the full page →Inventory & stock
Counts by section, on phones, several people at once, priced as you go. From the second count, variance shows where the bar leaks; pars turn counts into order suggestions.
See the full page →Ordering
Purchase orders drafted from 28 days of consumption, sent by email or letterhead PDF, received line by line with variances flagged, and supplier deals compared at their effective price.
See the full page →Team training
Every fiche generates its own quiz. Certifications with pass marks and timestamps, three-minute daily flashcards, live pre-shift quizzes, and an onboarding pack that writes itself.
See the full page →Drive it yourself.
A complete cocktail fiche built from scratch in the real product. Click through at your own pace.
See it on your own menu.
Twenty minutes with the founder. Bring one recipe; leave with its real cost.
14-day trial, no credit card.