For cafés, restaurants & bars · Ireland & UK

One weekly report. Four pillars that protect margin.

Drift sends the owner one clear Monday morning summary. Managers get live alerts when prices shift. Accountants get clean exports at month-end. Stocktake stays practical. No full back-office needed.

How it fits together

Alerts feed the report. The report drives action. Exports close the loop. Stocktake tightens control.

01

Live manager alerts

GM sees price moves on WhatsApp the same day.

02

Weekly owner report

One Monday email: spend, moves, and what to ask.

03

Accountant export

Clean PDF, CSV, and Xero-ready files at month-end.

04

Smart stocktake

Top 50 margin lines counted in 20 minutes.

Pillar 01

Live manager alerts

When a supplier delivery hits and a key line jumps outside tolerance, the GM sees it that day — on WhatsApp, not in a report six weeks later. Time to query the rep before the next order goes out.

Instant alert — price move outside tolerance, with old vs new

Clear context — supplier, item, unit, and date of change

Built for the floor — not for sitting in front of a dashboard

WhatsApp · GM, Bayview BistroTue 11:14

Price alert

Chicken breast · Murphy Meats

€4.20€5.04 per unit

+20%

Price alert

Ethiopian beans · Roast Co

€18.50€20.72 per unit

+12%

Price alert

LPG 47kg · Calor Gas

€68.00€73.44 per unit

+8%
Pillar 02 · The heartbeat

The Monday owner report.

One email at 07:00 every Monday. Total spend, biggest supplier, price moves that matter, missing dockets, and the single line worth a phone call this week. Built so an owner reads it over coffee, not at a desk with a spreadsheet.

From Drift · owners@bayviewbistro.ie

Your Monday report — week 46

Mon 07:00

Spend

€14,280

▼ €340 wk

Food cost

29.6%

▼ 0.4 pts

Price alerts

4

3 above tol.

Largest price moves

  • Chicken breast · Murphy Meats+22%
  • Whole milk · Fresh Foods+9%
  • Rapeseed oil 20L · Bidvest+6%

Largest supplier

Bidvest — €4,120 (29%)

Missing dockets

2 — Fresh Foods, Bidvest

The one thing worth asking about this week

Chicken breast jumped 22% on Tuesday's delivery. Worth a call to Murphy Meats before Friday's order goes out.

Built for owners who don't open dashboards.

Email and WhatsApp. No app to check.

Five minutes to read. One action to take.

Not a data dump. A weekly decision prompt.

Tuned for Irish and UK suppliers.

Bidvest, Musgrave, Booker, Brakes, local butchers.

drift / month-endNov 1, 09:02

October 2025 · Summary.pdf

Owner review pack

1.4 MB

October 2025 · Detail.csv

All lines by GL

112 KB

October 2025 · Xero.csv

Ready to import

78 KB

Pillar 03

Accountant export

At month-end, one clean folder: PDF for the owner, CSV for analysis, Xero-ready file for upload. The accountant stops chasing dockets and starts reconciling.

PDF month-end pack — summary, variance, supplier breakdown

CSV by GL or category — ready for pivot tables

Xero-ready import — dates, suppliers, VAT, reconcile

Pillar 04

Smart stocktake

Full stocktakes are too heavy for weekly use, so they get skipped. Drift counts the top 50 lines that move margin — bar spirits, proteins, key dry goods — in under 20 minutes on a phone. Variance flagged against expected usage.

Auto-built templates — from highest-spend lines

Mobile count flow — walk the bar, tap quantities

Variance vs expected — compare stock to predicted use

drift / stocktake · bar23 of 50
Tanqueray 70cl6/7−€28
Heineken keg 50L2/2€0
Jameson 70cl4/3+€22
Espresso beans 1kg8/6+€18
Time to finish~18 minutes

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For operators who want better weekly visibility, faster questions, and cleaner month-end control.