Vaaku — Restaurant Operating Intelligence
Your food cost,
to the decimal.
Vaaku tracks every ingredient across every location, costs every recipe, and flags margin leaks before they cost you — then explains every number in plain English.
Live — Annapurna Veg Kitchen
Food cost
28.4%
-1.2 pts vs last week
Prime cost
61.7%
+0.8 pts — labor up
Waste
$1,240
-$380 vs last week
Vaaku Paneer costs are up 12% — your supplier raised prices Tuesday. Consider the alternate vendor at $0.40/lb less.
Real product UI — not a mockup
What it does
01
Know your costs
Every recipe costed to the ingredient, updated when prices move. Prime cost — labor plus food — tracked weekly against revenue, per outlet. No spreadsheets, no month-end surprises.
02
Catch the leaks
Vaaku watches for the quiet margin killers: a supplier price creeping up, waste spiking on one station, a recipe drifting off spec. It tells you what changed, by how much, and what to do about it.
03
Run every location
Three locations or ten, every outlet rolls up to one view. Compare food cost across stores, spot the outlier, and standardize what works. Built for small chains, not single shops.
The method
Math you can audit.
Language you can read.
Every number Vaaku shows is computed deterministically — the same inputs always produce the same outputs, and every figure traces back to its source. AI is used only to explain what the numbers mean, in plain English. No black boxes, no hallucinations in your P&L.
Track
Connect your POS or log purchases. Inventory, recipes, and labor flow in.
Compute
Costs, variances, and forecasts calculated exactly — every time.
Explain
Vaaku tells you what moved and why, like a sharp ops manager would.
See it work
Fifty seconds,
real product.
A walkthrough of Vaaku running a live demo restaurant — costs, logging, waste, and the assistant answering in plain English. No script, no mockup.
Live — Austin Diner
Recorded on the live demo restaurant — not a mockup
Pricing
Per outlet. No games.
One price per location. No seat licenses, no module upsells, no annual lock-in required.
Starter
$0
free forever
One location, getting serious about numbers.
- ✓1 outlet
- ✓100 SKUs
- ✓Daily briefs
- ✓Email support
Pro
$39
per outlet / month
For operators who run on data.
- ✓Up to 5 outlets
- ✓Unlimited SKUs
- ✓Demand forecasting
- ✓Supplier intelligence
- ✓AI explanations
- ✓Priority support
Chain
$29
per outlet / month, 3+ outlets
For small chains standardizing ops.
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Chain-wide analytics
- ✓Cross-outlet comparisons
- ✓Custom roles
- ✓Dedicated manager