Do you know the cost of one slice of cheese on that burger? You could dig through your invoices, find the cost of all your ingredients, and do the math. It might take you 5-10 minutes! But with Cooking the Books, you can get it done in just 3 clicks. But that’s not the only reason our customers love us!

Our customers love Cooking The Books because it gives them the power to operate their venue at a higher level.

Cooking the Books provides transparency and control over food and beverage costs for over 11,000 users in Australia and counting. Our customers love us because it empowers them to operate their venue at a higher level. Before, kitchens used paper invoices, phone orders, and spreadsheets, which meant extra work and complicated recipe costing. Cooking the Books streamlines this process, reduces manual labour and gets chefs back in the kitchen.

 

10 years ago, our founder Andrew wanted to modernize the kitchen and hospitality industry but couldn’t find the right software, so he decided to build it himself. His vision was to bring order to the chaos of running a kitchen and hospitality business.

 

Cooking the Books is an online kitchen management platform designed to tackle industry challenges and streamline your workflow with complete financial and operational transparency. By leveraging data from your supplier invoices, Cooking the Books ensures you always have the latest costings at your fingertips. Discover the cost of that cheese in just three clicks!

 

Invoice and Stock management

 With your Cooking the Books subscription, you get access to CTB AND CO’s Invoice Ripper. This tool extracts data from your invoices at the line item level, eliminating manual data entry and updating your stock numbers, valuations, and ingredient costs in real-time.

Cooking the Books also manages locked-in or contracted pricing for you, flags incorrect pricing, and generates credit note requests during the invoice approval process. This way, you don’t have to handle pricing for hundreds of stock items manually.

Streamline your invoice approval process by linking invoices to purchase orders, receiving stock, reviewing deliveries and pricing, and exporting the invoice to your accounting package with ease.

 

Create and Place Purchase Orders with Your Suppliers Directly

A seamless connection between your venue and suppliers helps you build relationships and focus on what you love. We bring real-world experiences and processes into our technology to solve hospitality-specific problems.

Cooking the Books isn’t a buying group, so you can keep working with your preferred suppliers while building real-time purchasing history reports to leverage volume and drive price reductions.

Create purchase orders in Cooking the Books and send them to your suppliers. This helps with budgeting, provides a record of every order, and gives you a clear view of expected deliveries for better planning.

Our virtual whiteboard feature lets you manage your orders from both desktop and mobile, helping you create, send, and track your orders all from one spot.

Recipes are at the heart of any food business. Making your recipe count is crucial for profitability.

 

Recipe and Food Cost Management

 Recipes are the heart of any food business, and managing them well is key to profitability.

Our powerful recipe builder lets you create and manage recipes based on up-to-date pricing, streamline training, and maintain consistency in your kitchen. You can track food costs, margins, and even generate nutritional data from global databases.

We’ve been focused on what chefs and operators need to have better control in their kitchens. Review your menu using menu engineering. Combined with the latest sales data from your POS, menu engineering provides detailed insights into your menu’s performance. Paired with our food-focused reports you can drive profitability in the kitchen.

Since our early days we focused on understanding what chef’s and operators wanted increased control in their kitchen. Review your menu as a whole using menu engineering – complete with your latest sales data directly from your POS. Powerful food focused reports provide detailed insights using your latest data giving the kitchen the ability to operate at a higher level.

 

 

You can use real-time data to model or price your recipe to improve your profit margin.

Complete Kitchen Management Platform

Between Invoice management, central ordering and recipe manager, Our software can optimize all parts of your operation. Yet, We don’t stop there. Our perspective is to provide you with every tool for success.

 

CTB AND CO. gives your transparency and control of your food and beverage costs.

 

From invoice management to ordering and recipe management, Cooking the Books optimises every part of your operation. And we don’t stop there. Our goal is to give you every tool you need for success.

CTB AND CO. brings real hospitality to hospitality software. Our experienced implementation team helps you maximise efficiency, and our Australian-based support team is always ready to assist. For us, every customer is more than just a number—they’re a partner.

We’re with you from day one to help onboard your data, build your recipes, and navigate the software. Our close collaboration bridges the gap between real-world processes and digital solutions, making the transition smooth and setting you up for success.

Integrating with your Point of Sale and preferred Accounting Platform, Cooking the Books offers a complete kitchen management platform. Calculating the price of the cheese on your burger is only the beginning.

For more info, visit the CTB AND CO. team at Fine Food Australia 2024 Stand T8 or start your free trial at www.ctbandco.com/about-ctb.