For independent restaurants and cafés in Brisbane
forelo turns your Square sales into next week’s ingredient needs, rounds them to your suppliers’ packs, and sends each supplier its order. You still press send.
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Thursday 23 October
Order day
Every supplier to order from today, with its order ready to check and send.
Harbour Foodservice
DraftOrder by 2 pm today for Fri, 24 Oct
Covers the 7 days Fri, 24 Oct to Thu, 30 Oct.
13 lines, $412.30 inc. GST
River City Fresh
To orderOrder by 6 pm today for Fri, 24 Oct
Suggested: 6 lines, $148.90 inc. GST
Corner Grocer
Nothing to order until Monday.
To: orders@harbour.example
Order PO-1044 from Demo Kitchen
Deliver Friday 24 October, 5 to 7 am
2 packs of 18 L: Full cream milk 2L (HF-2210)
3 bags of 12.5 kg: Plain flour (HF-0410)
and 11 more lines, PDF attached
10:14 pm, the couch
hey Dave can you add 2 more bags of flour to tmrw
actually make it 3
and did we get the avo this week??
1:55 pm, the pass
Harbour Foodservice
DraftOrder by 2 pm today for Fri, 24 Oct
Full cream milk 2L
2 packs of 18 L
Plain flour 12.5kg
3 bags
Avocado Hass tray (20)
2 trays
You open Order day. Each supplier due today has its order written from what you sold, in its packs, with the reason on every line. Check it, approve, send. Two minutes, at the pass, before the cut-off.
Product tour
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Harbour Foodservice · Draft
Full cream milk 2L
HF-2210 · pack of 18 L
2 packs
Why this amount?
Covers Fri 24 to Thu 30 Oct, until the next delivery
Emailed to Harbour at 1:55 pm
To: orders@harbour.example
Order PO-1044 from Demo Kitchen
Delivery: Friday 24 October, 5 to 7 am
2 packs of 18 L: Full cream milk 2L (code HF-2210)
3 packs of 12.5 kg: Plain flour 12.5kg (code HF-0410)
2 trays: Avocado Hass tray (20) (code HF-3315)
and 10 more lines
PO-1044.pdf
Harbour Foodservice · PO-1044
Delivery · arrived Fri 24 Oct, 6:10 am
Credit to claim from the supplier: $38.50 inc. GST
Claim with Harbour Foodservice
$38.50 inc. GST to claim for what was short or damaged.
Report to supplierCool room
Counted after closing today: tomorrow’s orders start from it.
Flat white
212 sold
Beef burger
96 sold
Full cream milk
41.7 L
Beef mince
19.2 kg
Square sales, and your Uber Eats and DoorDash exports, become ingredient usage through your recipes, then a forecast for the days each order has to cover. A quiet Tuesday and a long weekend get different numbers.
Full cream milk 2L
2 packs of 18 L
Needs 41.7 L for the 7 days Fri, 24 Oct to Thu, 30 Oct, less 6 L in stock, so 2 packs of 18 L.
The suggestion takes off what you have and what’s already on the way, adds a safety buffer, and rounds up to the supplier’s pack: 2 packs of 18 L, not 36 L. Every line says why, in one sentence.
Email with a PDF, a portal, a text or a call, with your venue’s address and account number on it. The app never buys anything: a person always presses send.
Try it
An example, not your numbers: 180 mL of milk in a flat white, next week as busy as last, a 10% safety buffer, 6 L already in the cool room, and Harbour’s milk in packs of 18 L (nine 2 L bottles).
2 packs of 18 L
2 packs hold 36 L: just what's needed.
Ask forelo
why so much milk on harbour’s order?
Full cream milk on PO-1044, for Fri 24 Oct: you’ll use 38.2 L in the 7 days it covers, plus 3.8 L safety extra, less 6 L in stock. That’s 36 L, so 2 packs of 18 L.
we’re closed monday
Close 27 Oct
Closed. Nothing is forecast for that day, and orders won’t count on it.
Step 1: Connect Square
Sales start flowing in a minute. Uber Eats and DoorDash come in as a file.
Step 2: Match your menu
Each dish gets a recipe. The app drafts them, you fix what’s wrong.
Step 3: Count what's on the shelf
A quick count of the 10 items that matter today, on your phone, in the cool room.
Step 4: Open Order day
Each supplier due today has its order ready. Check the lines, approve, send.
Everything to order and count
Starter, plus
Founding: every Pro feature, for the first pilot venues in Brisbane.
No. It writes the order and sends it where you tell it to, and only when you press approve and send. Nothing is bought without a person.
No. Each supplier gets its order the way it already takes them: an email with a PDF, their portal, a text, or a phone call with the list on your screen. If they take orders by email, one tap sends it.
The app drafts a recipe for each dish from its name and your ingredient list, and you correct it. Items that aren’t in any recipe, like cups and napkins, are kept up to a par level instead.
It’s stored in Sydney. The AI features read only the ingredient and sales figures they need, never your customers’ names or card details. Supplier passwords are never stored: you log in to a supplier’s site yourself.
Connect Square, paste or upload your suppliers’ price lists, and match your menu. Most of that is reading what you already have. A kitchen with 30 ingredients is usually ordering from it the same week.
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