Know your real plate margin.

Drinks, modifiers, and a truck or two

You, if: lattes with size + milk options, a pastry case, and maybe a mobile cart on weekends.

• Size & substitute modifiers roll their own ingredient cost in — an oat-milk 16 oz isn't priced like a 12 oz with whole milk.
• Per-POS stock buckets keep the cart's beans and cups separate from the main bar, each with its own reorder alert.
• Stock transfers log the pre-service load-out in seconds so counts never drift.

High volume, thin margins, hidden combo cost

You, if: you push hundreds of sandwiches and breakfast plates a day and 30¢ a plate is the difference.

• Per-item margin sorts your menu by what's carrying the kitchen and what's quietly bleeding.
• Combo & modifier breakdown shows the true cost of the "add bacon, make it a meal" path, not just the headline item.
• Waste tagging — a Square discount named "Waste" pulls those plates out of revenue and into a waste line.

Complex recipes, prep items, a menu that changes

You, if: multi-component dishes, station prep, and a chef who reworks the menu every season.

• Recipe Book + one-click backup/restore so a menu rewrite — or a fresh onboarding — never loses your recipe knowledge.
• AI recipe suggestions draft the ingredient list for a new dish from your existing catalog; you review before saving.
• Low-stock alerts & purchase orders — a daily email of what's below par and who supplies it, with PO drafts ready to send.

One mobile unit, a tight menu, commissary load-outs

You, if: you cook out of a commissary and run service from a truck, a stall, or an event tent.

• Per-POS stock buckets treat the truck as its own inventory pool — what you loaded, what sold, what's left.
• Stock transfers record every commissary-to-truck move with who, when, and why.
• P&L by device tells you whether the truck itself is profitable after its share of overhead — not just the business as a whole.

Stock, sell, reorder — without the recipe model getting in the way

You, if: a small shop, café merch shelf, bakery jar wall, or coffee bag rack — a few dozen SKUs you buy and resell.

• Retail mode flips the app to a 1:1 stock-item-per-product model and relabels the UI (Products, Stock Items, Product Catalog) so nothing reads like a kitchen tool.
• Auto-create on Square sync — every catalog item gets a stock item with one click. Fill in wholesale cost; margin, low-stock alerts, and POs all light up.
• Per-location buckets & transfers work the same as the food side, so two-shop operators see stock per store.

Not for: variant matrices (size × color), UPC scanning, vendor RMAs, or 1,000+ SKU catalogs. Pick a purpose-built retail POS for those.