The sous-chef for the back of house — it doesn't change how you run your line. Snap the invoices, menus and recipes you already handle and Lowboy adds a smart layer that turns your gut into numbers and hands you the fix: the plate that slipped, the price that crept, the dish to re-price. Actionable, computed from your data — never guessed. The sous-chef for the back of house — it doesn't change how you run your line. Snap the sales, counts and prep you already handle and Lowboy turns your instincts into numbers and tells you what to do: prep sized to your real Fridays, pars that stay right, less time on the spreadsheet. From your history, not a template.
You didn't open a restaurant to do paperwork. Lowboy takes the back office — the craft stays yours.
Photograph any paper you already handle — Lowboy doesn't just file it, it builds the whole ecosystem around it: money saved, a smoother line, and hours back for the parts you love, from one photo. Pick a snap and watch what it creates:
Every number tells you how sure it is — computed from your data, never guessed.
Costing shouldn't live in one person's head or one laptop. Every recipe carries its own plate cost and food-cost %, and the whole crew can open it, scale it to the batch they're cooking, and make it exactly the same — every shift. The recipe leaves your head and lives with the line — so your attention can go back to making the food better.
And every hour it hands back is an hour for the food, the crew, and the room.
One number for what you're losing this month — split into the exact causes, each one a fix.
The dishes over target — and the price that restores margin.
A supplier creeps a price? You know before month-end.
Buying more than you use — trimmed to real usage.
Your stars and your quiet money-losers, ranked.
Tomorrow's list from your real Fridays — the average of similar days, netted against what's on hand.
Pars re-tuned to the last month of real usage.
Spots prep that shares a base — batch it in one cook.
Costed, scaled by yield, printable — shareable to the crew.
Snap the paper you already handle. It stays current on its own.
Every photo you share is another piece of the puzzle — and with each one, the picture of your kitchen gets clearer. That picture is how it all intertwines: a price, a recipe, a sale, a count, all connected in one full circle. You bring the pieces; Lowboy assembles them.
Each piece sharpens the whole — and every insight traces back to the photo it came from. Lowboy calls this your Clarity, and it climbs with every snap: the clearer the picture, the more it saves you, in money and time.
Type a real question in plain language. Lowboy answers from your own recipes, prices, sales and counts — computed, with the receipt, never a made-up number.
You don't give up the basics to get the good part. Lowboy does the table stakes every recipe/COGS tool does, then keeps going where point tools stop — at a price that undercuts the ones that even come close.
| meez | MarketMan | MarginEdge | Restaurant365 | Lowboy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe book — costed & printable | ✓ | – | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per-plate COGS & food-cost % | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ingredient price tracking | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inventory counts & pars | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share & scale recipes with the team | ✓ | – | – | ~ | ✓ |
| Forecasts prep & pars from your history | – | ~ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Connected sous-chef insights (leak → fix → receipt) | – | – | ~ | ~ | ✓ |
| Stays current from a photo — no data entry | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Price / month | $19 | $199+ | $350 | $499+ | $149 |
| Setup & contract | none | $500+ · annual | none | $2–10k · multi-yr | none · monthly |
✓ full · ~ partial · – none. The cheap tool (meez) is recipe-only; the deep ones (R365) carry enterprise price and setup. Lowboy is the one that checks every box and stays affordable, month-to-month, no setup.
Connect your POS and your menu and sales auto-fill instantly. Not on a supported POS, or not ready to connect? Snap a menu and type a sales number — Lowboy works the same either way.
The POS is the fast lane, never a gate. Lowboy is POS-agnostic by design — the manual snap lane is first-class, because trust is earned and not every kitchen runs Square.
The free audit shows the value first. When you're ready to keep it running, it's one simple price — every feature, the whole crew, with a real safety net. It buys back the money leaking out of the walk-in and the hours you'd rather spend on the floor.
Not for you in the first month? One tap, full refund — on monthly and annual, no questions.
Let Lowboy handle the numbers — the costing, the counts, the ordering, the paperwork — so your hours go back to the parts of this you actually love: cooking the food, testing a new dish, training and leading your crew, and connecting with the regulars and community that keep your doors open. Less time doing the work, more time doing what you got into this for.
A free food-cost audit — no login, no card. Snap a menu and a few invoices and meet the sous-chef that saves you money and time.
Let Lowboy carry the back office. You get back to the food, the crew, and the room you opened this place for.
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