Smart inventory managementfor your restaurant
Tare connects the POS you already run to every bottle, case, and pound on your shelves. Counts go five times faster, and you see exactly where your margin goes.
- Works with on-prem and cloud POS
- Counts offline in the walk-in
- Count-ready in an afternoon
Trusted by independent restaurants and bars
Every sale, traced to the shelf. Tare closes the loop between what you sell and what you stock.
1Connect
Keep the POS you already run
Tare reads every check from the system on your counter: the on-prem servers other inventory tools won't touch, or cloud POS through official APIs. Nothing changes for your staff.
ConnectedDining POS 4.2
Local server · Terminal 03
- 7:422 Brisket Plate, 2 Old Fashioned, 1 Caesar$102.34
- 7:393 Draft Lager$24.00
- 7:361 Salmon, 1 House Cabernet$41.00
- 7:312 House Burger, 2 Draft Lager$52.00
- 7:281 Filet Mignon, 1 Don Julio Añejo$76.00
Expected usage from check 4182
- Smoked brisket−1.0 lb
- Bourbon−4 oz
- Demerara syrup−0.5 oz
- Romaine−6 oz
2Map
Map what you sell to what you stock
Smart Map links each menu item to the bottles, cases, and pounds behind it. It suggests the obvious matches and sets aside the house pours, prep batches, and modifiers that deserve your judgment.
Smart Map suggestion
164 of 186 items mapped
Brisket Plate
Menu item · $24 · 46 sold this week
- Smoked brisket8 ozMatched
- Mac and cheeseBatch6 ozMatched
- ColeslawBatch3 ozMatched
- Dill pickles2 slicesReview
3Count
Count from a phone, even in the walk-in
Scan barcodes, weigh open bottles on a Bluetooth scale, or estimate partials by eye. Walk-ins and basements have no signal, so counts keep going offline and sync when you're back.
Tito's Handmade 1L matchedOffline · 38 counts savedSyncs when you reconnect4Know
See the variance, in dollars
Expected usage from sales meets actual usage from counts and receiving. Tare shows what ran over, what it cost, and where to look first.
Smoked brisket · Sep 1 – Sep 7
- Expected
- 18.0 lb
- Actual
- 23.0 lb
+5.0 lb$41.50 this weekThree comped plates on Friday have no void reason. Portions on the line match the recipe.
Where to look next
- House Cabernet 750ml−$47.50
- Don Julio Añejo 750ml−$43.34
- Draft lager−$15.12
Count the whole bar before the first ticket. Real recordings of the Tare app at work, not mockups.
Scan a shelf in seconds.
Point the camera at a barcode and Tare finds the product, confirms it with a photo, and adds it to the count. Tequila, beer, vodka, wine: one motion each. Tap a phone to watch its clip.
- Barcode scanning
- Phone camera or a high-speed scanner, with the product photo on every match.
- Bluetooth scales
- Weigh open bottles and the remaining volume lands in the count.
- Visual partials
- Mark the fill line on the bottle when there is no scale nearby.
- Works offline
- Keep counting in walk-ins and basements, then sync on the way out.
Scanning Tequila
Partials, weighed to the gram.
Set an open bottle on a connected Bluetooth scale. Tare converts the weight to what's left in the bottle while you reach for the next one.
Live in the app
On the scale
Invoices in, costs updated.
Photograph a supplier invoice and the receiving report fills itself in, with new prices flowing into your recipe costs.
Scan the invoice
Receiving report
Keep the POS that works. Add the intelligence it never had.
You shouldn't have to replace a dependable POS to get modern inventory and AI. Tare connects to the system already running in your restaurant, so your team keeps the terminals, workflows, and muscle memory they trust.
Tare is the intelligence layer, not another POS company. We build custom connectors for the on-premises setups other platforms overlook, and use official API integrations for cloud systems.
- No staff retraining
- The screens and service flow your team already knows stay put.
- No risky migration
- No new hardware, no rebuilt menus, no paused service.
- Your history stays intact
- Years of sales you already own become usable intelligence.
- Built around your setup
- A connector designed for the way your restaurant runs.
Count-ready in an afternoon. Messy files are fine.
Send us supplier files, item spreadsheets, and POS exports. Restaurants with thousands of items move from scattered exports to a review-ready workspace in a single afternoon. AI handles the predictable matches; you spend your time on the house pours, prep batches, and signature dishes that make your operation yours.
- Suppliers
- Send PDFs, photos, CSVs, or spreadsheets. We extract the details and match suppliers you already have.
- Item catalog
- Products, pack sizes, units, and categories come over in bulk, not one row at a time.
- POS menu and sales
- Menu items, prices, and sales history, including from on-premises systems.
- Ingredient mapping
- Smart Map handles the obvious matches and isolates the recipes that need your judgment.
Small COGS improvements, big profit gains.
COGS often represents one of the largest controllable expenses in a restaurant. Tare helps operators track inventory, purchasing, receiving, and variance so they can identify where margin is leaking.
What a 6% COGS improvement looks like
Example: a restaurant doing $1M in annual sales with 35% COGS spends $350k on food, beverage, and supplies. Improving COGS by 6% would lower that rate to about 33% and keep roughly $21k more in the business each year.
Estimate your savings
Every assumption below is yours to adjust, and results update as you change them.
This calculator provides an estimate based on your inputs and industry benchmarks. Actual savings vary by restaurant type, operating practices, menu mix, and implementation.
Built with operators who count every ounce. From long-standing dining rooms to high-volume bars.
“Tare gave us the inventory intelligence we wanted without asking us to replace the POS system our team already knows. Sales now flow into clear variance and usage reporting, while our front-of-house operation keeps working exactly as it always has.”
Dal Rae Restaurant
- Custom on-prem POS integration
- Actual vs. expected usage
- No staff retraining
“Our invoices, ingredient costs, and recipes finally tell one consistent story. When supplier pricing changes, Tare updates the numbers behind our menu and makes the margin impact visible before it becomes a month-end surprise.”
Sena on Myrtle
Automated invoice processing · Live recipe costing · Margin and price alerts
“Counts are faster, ordering is more deliberate, and the reporting gives us something we can act on instead of another spreadsheet to interpret. Tare helps the team see what is low, what is moving, and where our attention belongs.”
Nikki C's Restaurant & Bar
Mobile inventory counts · Preemptive stock alerts · AI-assisted reporting
Questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? We're happy to talk through your POS, your counts, and your setup.
No. Tare connects to the POS your restaurant already uses, on-premises or cloud. We build around your existing terminals and workflows, so your staff keeps the interface they know while your sales data gains modern inventory, reporting, and AI capabilities.
Yes. Where your POS offers an official API, we connect through it. Our differentiator is also going deep on legacy on-prem systems that most inventory tools will not touch, so you get the same inventory intelligence either way.
Yes, you can use your mobile phone or opt for our high-speed barcode scanner for maximum efficiency. Both options offer real-time visual confirmation of each item scanned.
Our platform provides visual item confirmation during scanning, ensuring accurate tracking and reducing errors commonly associated with manual entry.
Absolutely! Inventory updates occur in real-time, so any changes made using the scanner or mobile device are instantly reflected across the system.
Restaurants have bad connectivity as a rule, not an exception. Walk-in coolers and freezers are Faraday cages, dry storage and basement stockrooms have no signal, and back-of-house Wi-Fi is often weak, saturated, or shared with the POS. Anywhere inventory needs to be counted is probably where the internet connection won't be. After the initial sync, Tare keeps the catalog on the device so staff can finish the count offline and upload automatically when they reconnect.
Keep your POS. See everything it's been missing.
We build the connection. Your team keeps working the way it already knows.