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What Restaurant Codex is
Restaurant Codex is operations software for restaurant groups. It holds the daily checklists, the written standards, the training and the inventory counts for every location in one system, so an owner can see what actually happened on a shift without being in the building.
Who it is for
Owners and operators who run more than one shift than they can personally watch. That includes a single location where the owner is trying to step back, and a group where the second site does not come out like the first.
The people who use it day to day are general managers, kitchen managers and floor staff. Staff join on the phone they already carry, with a QR code, and do not need an app store account or a company email address.
What it does
It has four parts, and they share one set of standards.
- Operations
- Daily task lists, opening and closing routines, line checks and shift handoffs. Work is closed out with evidence, a photo or a temperature reading, rather than a tick. Details
- Knowledge Base
- Written standards in one place: procedures, recipes, plating specs and policies, each with an owner and a review date, so there is one current version rather than a copy per location. Details
- Training
- Courses, onboarding paths and sign-offs for new hires and new managers, with a record of who has been trained on what and when. Details
- Inventory
- Counts, pars, waste logging and food cost, so a variance shows up in a weekly number instead of at the end of the month. Details
What it does not do
It is not a point of sale. It does not take orders, run payments or print tickets, and it does not replace the POS you already use.
It is not an accounting system, a payroll system or a scheduling system. It does not file taxes, cut paychecks or build the rota.
It is not a reservations or delivery platform, and it does not manage your guest bookings or your marketplace listings.
How it differs from the nearest alternatives
Against a point of sale: a POS records the transaction. Codex records the work behind it, whether the line check was done and at what temperature.
Against a training platform: a training tool teaches a procedure once. Codex keeps the procedure as the live standard the shift is measured against afterwards.
Against a checklist app: a checklist app collects ticks. Codex ties each task to the written standard it comes from, and asks for evidence rather than a tick.
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The facts
- Product
- Restaurant Codex
- Company
- Food Hub & Restaurant Codex LLC
- Founded
- 2026
- Based in
- Miami, Florida, United States
- Founder
- Jose David Castro Zabarain
- Category
- Restaurant operations software
- Runs on
- Any modern web browser, on a laptop, a desktop, a tablet or a phone. Staff use a phone app.
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Pricing
- Paid, priced per location and quoted on a call. There is no free tier.
- Free to use without an account
- The template library and the profit margin calculator.
How it is usually set up
Most groups start by putting their existing standards in first, whatever is already written down, then turning the two or three routines that break most often into daily checklists. Training and inventory come after, once the standards they depend on exist.
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