Drift is built for cafés, restaurants, bars, and hotels. Live supplier alerts for managers, a weekly report for owners, and clean month-end exports for accountants — without waiting on the accounts to tell you what already happened.
Live alert · 09:42
Whole milk up 18% from Fresh Foods Ltd
€1.42 → €1.68 per L · Affects flat whites, batch brews
Week-to-date food cost
28.4%
▼ 0.9 pts vs last week
Open price moves
3
2 above tolerance
Monday owner report
ScheduledSent Monday 07:00 to owners + finance
See how Drift catches margin problems before month-end.
Managers get the alert on delivery day. Owners get the weekly read. Accountants get a clean month-end export.
Price jump · delivery today
Chicken breast up 22%
€7.20 → €8.80 per kg · Murphy Meats
Last 4 wks
€7.10
Today
€8.80
Earlier
Missing docket · Premier Drinks
Tue delivery not uploaded
From Drift · To owners@bayviewbistro.ie
Your week — 3–9 Nov
Spend
€12,480
▲ 4.1%
Food cost
29.6%
▼ 0.4 pts
Missing
2
dockets
Price moves this week
Two dockets missing from Premier Drinks. Reply to chase.
October 2025
Bayview Bistro · 4 suppliers
Summary.pdf
1 page · totals + variances
Invoices.csv
146 lines · coded
Xero_import.csv
Mapped to chart of accounts
Missing_dockets.pdf
2 items flagged
Coded, reconciled, ready for Xero
The problem
Most hospitality businesses only learn what went wrong after the period closes. Drift collapses that gap to days — sometimes minutes.
By the time the accounts close, the bad week is already four weeks old. Decisions are reactive, not preventative.
A 12% jump on milk, oil, or beer is invisible until someone notices the invoice — and by then it has been ordered all month.
Weekly numbers live in a manager's head, a WhatsApp thread, and a folder of PDFs. Nothing is consolidated, nothing is timely.
Short, opinionated, and built from how hospitality actually runs.
Cost issues surface on delivery day — not 28 days later in the accounts.
Price jumps, missing dockets and supplier drift are flagged the moment they happen.
Managers get live alerts. Owners get weekly clarity. Accountants get clean month-end exports.
Smaller outlets count the top 50–100 lines that drive margin — not a 2,000-line inventory.
Drift is live cost control for hospitality. Built for action, not reporting.
What Drift does
Not another reporting dashboard. Drift is a live cost-control layer sitting between your suppliers, your team, and your accountant.
01 · For managers
The moment a supplier price jumps or an invoice lands outside tolerance, the manager on shift gets a notification. Catch it before the next order goes out.
02 · For owners
A short, clean summary in the inbox at 7am Monday. Spend by category, biggest cost movements, and what to ask about this week — no logins required.
Food
28.4%
Bev
21.1%
Labour
32.0%
Dairy +6.2% drove food cost up; bar margin held. Ask about milk supplier mix.
03 · For accountants
Hand your accountant a PDF summary, a clean CSV, and a Xero-ready file. No more month-end scramble, no more chasing missing invoices across folders.
04 · For smaller outlets
Built for places that don't run full stocktakes. Count the 50–100 lines that actually move margin — coffee, milk, spirits, top food items — in minutes, not hours.
How it works
Send invoices by email, WhatsApp, or upload. Drift handles the rest — no integrations to wrestle, no POS rip-and-replace.
Line items, units, and prices are extracted automatically and compared against the last time you bought the same thing.
When prices move outside tolerance, the right person knows immediately — not three weeks later.
A weekly summary every Monday. A month-end pack — PDF, CSV, Xero — ready when accounts close.
About Drift
Drift exists because hospitality runs on weekly margins and monthly accounts — a gap nobody can afford anymore. Energy, food, and labour have all moved too fast for month-end reporting to be the first time anyone notices.
We work directly with cafés, restaurants, bars, and hotel F&B teams. Every feature comes from a real shift, a real invoice, or a real accountant asking for one less spreadsheet at month-end.
Drift is not another dashboard company. We give you live cost control — and we get out of the way the rest of the time.
Book a demo
15 minutes. We'll walk through Drift on a venue like yours and show you exactly what your managers, owners, and accountants would see this week.
See how Drift catches margin problems before month-end.