Your menu is only as profitable as your worst guess.
Marlo replaces the spreadsheets, clipboards, and shoebox invoices with one back office built for restaurants and bars — recipe costing, inventory, vendor orders, budgets, and POS data, all in one place.
Built for operators who are done reconciling three systems to answer one question.
Recipe cost
Braised Short Rib
- Braised short rib, 8oz0.5 lb$3.85
- Red wine reduction2 oz$0.62
- Root vegetable mash4 oz$0.71
- House stock + herbs3 oz$0.44
Plate cost
$5.62
Menu price
$28.00
Margin
80%
Built with feedback from the people who run the floor, the kitchen, and the bar program.
Your back office wasn't built for how a restaurant actually runs
Most systems ask you to slow down and enter data. Marlo is built to keep up with a kitchen and a bar in real time.
Recipe costs drift the moment produce prices move.
Marlo reprices every recipe automatically as vendor costs change, so your plate cost is never based on last quarter's invoice.
Weekly counts eat a night off the floor.
Count by shelf-to-sheet order on a phone or tablet — counts that took hours drop to minutes, with variance flagged automatically.
Invoices pile up faster than anyone can key them in.
Vendor invoices are captured and matched to orders automatically, so nothing sits in a shoebox waiting for month-end.
Budgets are a spreadsheet nobody trusts by week three.
Budgets stay live against actuals pulled straight from your POS and vendor data — not a static file that's out of date by Tuesday.
One system for the numbers that decide your margin
Five parts of the back office that usually live in five different tools — finally talking to each other.
Recipe Costing
Know your true plate and pour cost, always current.
Inventory Management
Counts that take minutes, not a night off the floor.
Vendor Management
Ordering and invoice matching without the shoebox.
Budgeting
Budgets that track actuals, not last quarter's guess.
POS Integration
Sales data flowing in — no manual entry, ever.
Live in a few weeks, not a quarter
Marlo is built to plug into what you're already running — not replace it on day one.
Connect your POS and vendors
Link your point-of-sale and vendor accounts once. Marlo pulls in sales, item, and pricing data automatically from there on.
Build your recipes and par levels
Set up recipes, sub-recipes, and par levels for each location — Marlo uses these as the baseline for costing, counts, and ordering.
Count and order in minutes
Run counts from a phone by shelf order, and place vendor orders guided by par levels and real usage trends.
Watch your margins in real time
Recipe costs, budgets, and variance update automatically as new data comes in — no month-end scramble to find out where you stand.
[XX]%
average reduction in food cost variance
[XX] hrs
saved per week on counts and ordering
[XX]%
of invoices matched automatically
Illustrative figures — placeholders pending real customer data.
What operators say once the guesswork is gone
“We used to find out our food cost was off after the P&L landed. Now we see it move in real time and can actually do something about it.”
“Counts went from a three-hour Sunday night ritual to something one person finishes before close.”
“The vendor invoice matching alone paid for itself — we caught pricing errors we'd been eating for months.”
Simple packaging, per location
Placeholder pricing — final tiers and figures confirmed once your account is scoped.
Starter
For a single location getting recipe costing and inventory under control.
- Recipe costing & menu engineering
- Mobile inventory counts
- Basic vendor ordering
- 1 location
- Email support
Growth
For growing groups that need budgeting and vendor management across locations.
- Everything in Starter
- Vendor invoice matching
- Budgeting & variance reporting
- Up to [X] locations
- POS integration
- Priority support
Enterprise
For multi-unit and enterprise groups with custom reporting and support needs.
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited locations
- Custom reporting & exports
- Dedicated onboarding
- Dedicated account manager
Placeholder pricing — final packaging confirmed during your demo.
See Marlo running on your own menu.
Book a walkthrough and we'll show you recipe costing, inventory, and vendor management set up the way your kitchen and bar actually run.