Byte Works
Byte Works is a digital purchasing assistant that automates supply ordering for restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, and catering kitchens. The platform connects to existing supplier accounts, learns consumption patterns from staff shelf-tagging, and builds a weekly order priced across 5+ vendors, sending it to the user's phone for one-tap approval. It also offers reporting tools that track spending by item and supplier, plus optional point-of-sale integration to calculate return on every menu item.
- Food Technology
- Commerce & Shopping
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, and catering kitchens rely on manual inventory counts and guesswork to manage weekly food and supply purchasing. Staff spend significant time walking shelves with clipboards, comparing prices across multiple suppliers by hand, and assembling orders—a process prone to shortages, overstocking, and missed cost savings.
Solution
Byte Works is a digital purchasing assistant that automates supply replenishment for food service businesses. The platform connects to the suppliers a business already uses, loads current inventory, and learns consumption patterns as staff mark items taken off the shelf. Before supplies run low, Byte Works builds a weekly order, prices every item across 5+ connected vendors, and selects the lowest total. The order is sent to the user's phone for one-tap approval; nothing is placed without confirmation. This reduces weekly purchasing work to roughly one minute of staff time and claims to save 45+ hours of staff time per month. The platform also includes reporting tools that track spending by item and supplier, and can connect to a point-of-sale system to calculate return on every menu item.
Target Audience
Primary customers are restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, and catering kitchens that need to streamline recurring food and supply purchasing. The platform also serves child care centers, preschool programs, and after-school programs, as it originated in that sector.
Features
- Connects to existing supplier accounts and loads current shelf inventory automatically
- Learns weekly consumption patterns from staff shelf-tagging, requiring about two taps per week
- Auto-builds weekly orders and prices every item across 5+ vendors, selecting the cheapest total option
- Mobile approval workflow delivers orders to the user's phone with a single-tap confirm action
- Menu rules built in (e.g., gluten free, nut free, halal, organic) to prevent swapping in a cheaper item that breaks a rule
- One app across every location with role-based logins for staff
- Reporting suite showing top items by spend, spend by supplier, trends over time, and multi-location spending views
- Optional point-of-sale integration that pairs item sales with ingredient costs to calculate return on every item