Menus that go stale
Every new dish or price means another print run.
Digital services for restaurants
Digital menus, pages and smart QR codes for your guests. The comandiera for the floor and the kitchen. A storeroom that knows what each dish costs. All on the phones and tablets you already have.
Why we built it
Every new dish or price means another print run.
Tickets carried by hand between the tables, the kitchen and the bar.
Stock, costs and recipes in notebooks, so food cost is a guess.
A different app, subscription and contract for every piece.
BoxGrape puts them in one account, and each piece switches on when you need it.
Pages
An entry page that sorts guests: the lunch menu, the wine list, takeaway, bookings. One link for the door, the tables and your social profiles.
Osteria
Welcome
Lunch menu
Wine list
Takeaway
Book a table
Open today 12–15 · 19–23:30
Smart QR codes
A smart QR code decides where each guest lands, by the time of day and by the language of their phone. The guest chooses nothing and sees nothing: they simply arrive where they should.
Time bands follow your restaurant’s clock, not the guest’s phone: a traveller still lands on the right menu. A built-in test shows where the code leads at any hour, in any language.
How to use them
Lunch menu at noon, dinner and wines in the evening. One code, printed once.
A phone set to English opens the English menu, one set to Spanish the Spanish menu.
Point it to your entry page today and to a new menu tomorrow, without reprinting.
Switch the code off for the evening, and back on the next day.
Scans by day, country and language: you see whether anyone uses the code on the table.
High error correction, so a worn or scratched code still reads.
Comandiera
In an Italian restaurant the comanda is the order ticket, and the comandiera is where it lands. Ours is digital: the waiter sends the order from the table, the kitchen and the bar each receive their part, and the floor manager follows the whole room.
Waiter · phone or tablet, 4-digit PIN
Course 1
Course 2
1 without pepper
Kitchen and bar · a screen each
1 without pepper
Floor manager · the whole room
It installs like an app. No special hardware to buy or rent.
You create a one-hour code for each device; staff sign in with their own PIN.
Sales by dish and by waiter. A translated menu counts as the same dish.
Orders, kitchen and pre-bill run here; the fiscal receipt stays on your register.
The comandiera is opening one restaurant at a time. Ask us for yours.
Storeroom
Stock is never a number typed somewhere: it is the sum of every delivery, count and write-off, each with who and when. The storeroom has its own tablet, and its staff sign in with a PIN that opens only the storeroom.
| Item | Zone | In stock | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozzarella fiordilatte | Cold room | 44 pcs | €1.50/pc |
| Burrata pugliese | Cold room | 16 pcs | €1.80/pc |
| GuancialeRunning low | Cold room | 0 kg | €14.50/kg |
| Farina 00 | Pantry | 90 kg | €0.62/kg |
| Olio extravergineRunning low | Pantry | 3 l | €8.90/l |
Deliveries
Delivery note, paper invoice, receipt or price list. Or say “twenty mozzarellas at one fifty”.
Load the goods and update the costs, or update the prices only.
Pack sizes are learned once: one sack is 25 kg.
Next time, the same supplier’s lines match by themselves.
A note loaded twice is flagged. Nothing enters stock without your tap.
“Mozzarella twenty-two, burrata four.”
Counts
Recipes and food cost
Example from our demo restaurant
| Ingredient | Dose | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Spaghetti | 320 g | €0.58 |
| Guanciale | 150 g | €2.17 |
| Egg yolks | 4 | €1.20 |
| Pecorino romano | 50 g | €0.94 |
| Black pepper | to taste | – |
| Whole recipe | 4 portions | €4.90 |
| Per portion | €1.22 |
Food cost 10% of the €13.50 dish, VAT excluded: a margin of €11.05 per plate.
The storeroom is opening one restaurant at a time. Photos and audio are read and not kept.
Coming next
Next, for the storeroom
Upload the XML, P7M or ZIP from the tax portal: goods and prices update themselves.
What is running low, grouped by supplier, sent with one tap by email or WhatsApp.
Then
Food cost between two counts, spend per supplier, prices over time.
A basket on the public menu: guests order from their own phone.
A QR label on every prep and ingredient, with its batch and use-by date.
Booked tables together with the room: who arrives, when, where they sit.
Reads what sells and suggests what to prepare, what to order and which dishes earn most.
Plans
Create your account for free, without a credit card, and switch on Pro when you need it.
Pro
€25 a monthor €240 a year
AI packs
€1.50as you go
Extra slots
€1 eachpaid once
Tailored
For groupsask us
Prices in euro, Italian VAT included. The comandiera and the storeroom open one restaurant at a time: ask us for yours.
Why BoxGrape