OpenKitchen

Open-source restaurant & central-kitchen back-of-house software — a free, self-hostable alternative to Apicbase, MarketMan, Craftable, MarginEdge, Restaurant365, xtraCHEF, WISK, meez, Nory, Fullsoon and Supy. It owns your kitchen's cost graph — ingredients, supplier prices, recipes and sub-recipe preps, food cost, inventory, production and supplier invoices — and tracks licenses, permits, leases and HACCP certificates with expiry reminders.

Restaurant inventory management, recipe costing, food-cost control and invoice processing for independent restaurants, multi-site groups, central/commissary kitchens, catering companies, bakeries and cloud kitchens — without the per-seat SaaS bill.

Built on the Clawnify template format. React + Hono + D1 on Cloudflare Workers. Deploy your own copy in minutes, customize freely, own the data.

The idea: record vs action

Most tools in this space bolt a chatbot onto a dashboard. OpenKitchen inverts it. The app is the system of record; your Clawnify agent is the system of action — reachable on WhatsApp and email:

• You send a photo of a supplier invoice → the agent reads it, logs the lines, and reconciles the new costs into your ingredients and price history.
• The app recomputes food cost for every affected dish and flags any that crossed its target margin.
• The agent forecasts next week's volume, drafts reorder lists, and chases your license / HACCP renewals before they lapse.

The app does the deterministic math (cost roll-up, variance, reorder points, cost drift) and exposes it as a clean JSON API; the agent does the judgement. See agent.md for the full contract and playbook.

What it does

• Recipes & preps — recursive bill of materials (dishes built from ingredients and nested sub-recipes), rolled-up cost per portion, margin and food-cost % against target.
• Ingredients & suppliers — cost per unit kept fresh from reconciled invoices, with full supplier price history and allergen tracking.
• Invoices — supplier invoices with line items; one click (or the agent) reconciles costs and appends price history. Cost drift surfaces on the dashboard.
• Inventory & production — stock counts vs par, production runs that drive theoretical usage, and a variance view. Reorder suggestions for anything below par.
• Documents — licenses, permits, leases and HACCP certificates with a valid → expiring → expired lifecycle the agent watches.

Out of scope by design: statutory double-entry books, VAT and e-invoicing — that's open-books, which OpenKitchen sits neatly beside.

Develop

pnpm install
pnpm dev          # local dev at http://localhost:5173

With an empty database the app seeds a small central-kitchen sample so the dashboard looks alive before you've entered anything.

Deploy

pnpm deploy       # deploy to Clawnify

Open-source alternative to popular restaurant back-of-house software

OpenKitchen is a free, self-hostable alternative to the leading restaurant back-of-house and inventory platforms. If you're comparing tools, it covers the same core jobs — recipe costing, food-cost tracking, inventory counts, supplier invoices and purchasing — with an AI agent doing the day-to-day work over chat:

• Back-office & food-cost suites — Apicbase, MarketMan, Craftable, MarginEdge, Restaurant365, xtraCHEF by Toast, Marketman, Optimum Control.
• Inventory & stock counting — WISK, Supy, Sculpture Hospitality, Yellow Dog.
• Recipe & menu costing — meez, Melba, ReciPal, FoodMeUp.
• AI forecasting & ordering — Nory, Fullsoon, Praedixa, Lineup.ai.

Unlike per-seat SaaS, you deploy your own copy, own your data, and pay no monthly per-location fee.

Keywords: restaurant inventory management software, recipe costing software, food cost software, restaurant back-office software, central kitchen software, commissary kitchen management, catering software, HACCP tracking, supplier invoice management, open-source restaurant software.

License

AGPL-3.0.