Invisible margins
Recipes stay on paper. The real cost gets lost between the walk-in and the ticket.
Front of house, kitchen, bar.
Your whole brigade, one tool
POS, kitchen, recipes, stock, purchasing and HACCP in the same software, with an assistant that reads your data. You finally see the real cost of every plate — and what is left as margin.
- Live floor / kitchen
- Tablet, phone and PWA
- A dedicated server, hosted in Europe
The floor
Three frictions every service knows
Scattered tools
POS on one side, Excel on the other, reservations elsewhere. Nothing talks.
HACCP paperwork
Logs, lots and non-conformities pile up. The inspector always arrives too soon.
Tour
The app, as it runs
No mockups: every image is a screenshot of the public demo, taken automatically inside the app.
Two stations, the same data
Office and tablet, no retyping
The office runs the menu, purchasing and closes. The tablet holds the service. One ticket, one stock, one food cost — not three files.
In the office
- Sales, Z close and food cost for the service
- Recipe cards, price lists and purchase orders
- Roster, HACCP, guest profiles, assistant
On the tablet
- POS, floor plan and fire-now / hold courses
- Kitchen and bar screens, chases, pass view
- Touch inventory, HACCP logs, reservations
Features
Everything the floor, the kitchen and the office already pass around
One tool, the same data. No more retyping an order, a count or a delivery note.
Service
- Tableside ordering, set menus, notes
- Live kitchen and bar screens, chases
- Floor plan, waitlist, table transfer
- Check, end of service and Z report
Menu
- Recipe cards and sub-recipes
- Cost of goods calculated on every sale
- Allergens, stock and tablet counts
- Waste and consumption report
Purchasing
- Suppliers, order calendar, price list
- Purchase orders as PDF by email
- Partial receiving
- Invoices extracted from your mail and matched
Team
- HACCP: logs, lots, non-conformities
- Directory, roles, sections
- Weekly roster, cost and compliance
- Roster published by email
Guests
- In-house and Zenchef reservations
- Waitlist and no-shows
- Guest profiles linked to checks
- GDPR anonymisation
Assistant
- An orchestrator and agents per domain
- Every action proposed, you approve
- Knowledge base and mailbox
- Anomalies detected every night, audit log
How it works
From the order to tonight’s margin
- 01
Order on the floor
The table orders. Set menus, extras, and fire-now or hold courses.
- 02
Send to the kitchen
The ticket lands on the kitchen or bar screen. Beep, colours, chase.
- 03
Check and close
The check prints, you take payment on your certified till, the ticket closes.
- 04
Stock goes down
Each plate explodes the recipe. Stock drops on its own, lot by lot.
- 05
Real cost and margin
You read the food cost of the service, not a six-month-old estimate.
Operations
One server per restaurant, checked every night
Brigades rents and runs a server dedicated to your house. You buy nothing, you administer nothing, and your data shares nothing with another restaurant.
Dedicated hosting in Europe
One OVH server per restaurant, its own database, HTTPS on your address {slug}.brigades.io.
Encrypted off-site backups
Daily encrypted copy to separate storage, restore tested and timed.
Updates outside service
Deployments run between 3 am and 10 am, never during a service, with rollback ready.
Checks every night
Sales outside any Z, stock differing from its movements, forbidden payment: each check opens an anomaly, and closes it once fixed.
Certified till respected
In external-till mode no payment is recorded, and the server is what refuses. The demo runs in training mode, marked non-fiscal.
Monitoring
Errors reported with the deployed version, instance status readable by monitoring, mailbox read without superfluous rights.
Who it is for
A brigade, not a chain
Bistro
Short menu, tight service, a chef who finally wants the cost of today’s special.
Brasserie
Floor plan, set menus, bar and kitchen that must see the same ticket.
Small gastro
Precise recipe cards, allergens, lots — without one tool per station.
Wine bar
Wine by the glass, tablet inventory, price list and close the same night.
Foundation
Built to hold a service, not just a demo
Real time
Floor, kitchen and bar see the same ticket, with no page refresh. Two tablets opening a ticket at the same instant get two numbers.
Tablet, phone, PWA
Installable on a tablet or a phone. An offline page and a network indicator on the floor.
Roles and permissions
Ten roles, sections, and each person only sees what they need. Audit log by scope.
GDPR
Guest anonymisation and export, marketing consent, duplicate merge.
Excel import and export
Products, recipes and price lists: we start from your existing files. CSV export of sales.
Living demo
Le Petit Bistrot runs live on the demo: tables open at lunch and dinner, tickets in the kitchen, reservations seated.
Transparency
What is shipped, what comes after the pilots
Already there
- Floor POS, kitchen and bar screens, floor plan, chases, waitlist
- Recipes, food cost, stock, tablet counts, waste, lots
- Purchasing, invoices extracted from mail, HACCP, roster, Zenchef
- AI assistant, knowledge base, anomalies, audit log
- One server per restaurant, off-site backups, updates outside service
Not yet
- Payments in Brigades (NF525 certification) and card terminal
- TheFork and a public booking widget
- Multi-site and advanced analytics
FAQ
Common questions
What hardware do we need?
A modern computer, tablet or phone is enough. Brigades installs as an app (PWA): no store required. Kitchen, inventory and HACCP are built for touch.
Can we bring our recipes and price lists?
Yes. Excel import lets you start from the files you already have: products, recipes, suppliers. You do not have to retype everything.
Does it connect to Zenchef?
Yes. Reservations sync both ways (create, statuses, table mapping). TheFork and a public booking widget are not on the roadmap yet.
Where is the data hosted?
On a server dedicated to your restaurant, rented and run by Brigades at OVH, in Europe. Its own database, encrypted backups copied off the server every night, restore tested. No other restaurant shares your server.
Is the POS certified?
Not yet. Brigades works alongside your certified till: it takes the order, sends it to the kitchen, prints a non-fiscal check and closes the ticket; you take payment on your till. NF525 certification, so that Brigades takes payment itself, is the next project.
What does the AI assistant do, and with which data?
It answers from your data (sales, stock, purchasing, HACCP, roster) and proposes actions that you approve. It never writes a sale, a payment or a close. The model provider is your choice, with your key and a capped monthly budget.
Pilot
See Brigades on your floor
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