For independent cafés on Toast · invite-only beta
Run the café.
Butter runs the numbers.
Your Toast register has been keeping notes for years. Every sale, every sell-out, every slow Monday is in there. Butter reads all of it, writes up the order, checks the delivery when it comes in, and tells you what's off and what to do about it. Nothing to type in. You go back to the bar.
Invite-only while we're in beta · $99/mo per café when we open · we write when it's your turn
your register already holds years of your salesrestaurants lose 4–10% of the food they buyweekly costing is worth 2–5% of salescounts, orders, invoices, labor & consignment — one login
The whole idea
It starts with what
you already have.
The data's already there.
Every sale you've rung through Toast is still there, years of it, and it already says what sells, when, and how the week goes. Plug Toast in once and Butter starts reading. There's no spreadsheet to keep up.
Butter does the homework.
By the time you open, the order is drafted in your vendor's own cases and prices, the delivery has been checked line by line, and yesterday's forecast has been graded. You don't get a chart to squint at. You get a line like “morning buns short by 5, flagged before you pay.”
You get the café back.
The bar, the regulars, the roast. The reason you opened the place. Sunday nights stop being about the calculator, and the money stays in the till, because fewer pastries end up in the bin and fewer short deliveries get paid in full.
How it starts
Three steps.
One of them is yours.
Plug in Toast.
One connection, no spreadsheets — you bring your café's own Toast credentials, and we walk you through the ask. Every sale you've ever rung flows in, and Butter starts learning your rhythm: what sells, when, and how the week bends it.
Teach Butter your vendors.
“We order Thursdays for Monday through Sunday.” “Deliveries come Mon, Wed, Fri.” “It's cases of 12, and they call our croissant BTRCR-12.” Butter speaks fluent supplier — schedules, pack sizes, codes, prices.
Approve and send.
Every order day, a draft is waiting: each item, each delivery day, already converted to cases and priced. Nudge a number if you like, hit send. Done before the first espresso's pulled.
Every morning, Butter grades yesterday's forecast.
day of weekholidays & school calendarsevents, measuredsell-outs
That last one matters: when you 86 the morning buns at 9 a.m., Butter reads it from your live Toast stock — and doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand. Most spreadsheets get that wrong forever.
Then it shows its work. Every past day gets scored green, amber, or rose against what actually sold, and the bias is spelled out in plain English. When weather moves a number, the forecast says so on the day.
The tour · seven stops
Butter runs the back of house.
And helps fill the front.
Every stop is its own page. Walk the whole thing, or skip to the part that eats your Sunday night.
Butter checks the
delivery, too.
Forward the invoice to your café's own Butter inbox — or snap a photo when the van pulls away. Butter reads every line, matches it against what you ordered — even when “Butter Croissant 12ct” shows up as “BTRCR-12” — and flags anything that's short, with the exact lines and numbers you need to claim the credit. The math argues with the vendor so you don't have to.
Received · Mon 6:12 AM · Bakery Co.
| butter croissant | 48 / 48 | ✓ | |
| almond croissant | 22 / 22 | ✓ | |
| morning bun | 31 / 26 | −5 | |
| ham & gruyère | 18 / 18 | ✓ | |
| canelé | 12 / 12 | ✓ |
1 line short → flagged before payment ✓
The door
Invite-only, for now.
We're opening Butter a few cafés at a time, to owners who'll tell us what's wrong with it. When it opens to everyone it'll be $99 a month per café, everything included, with the first 30 days free and no card. Until then, the list is how you get in. We write to every café on it when its turn comes.
Questions
The short answers.
- What is Butter?
- Butter runs the back of house for independent cafés, using the sales your Toast register already records. It learns how your café actually sells, drafts your vendor orders, checks your deliveries, and tells you what's off and what to do about it. You order about the right amount and get back to the counter.
- How does Butter forecast demand?
- Butter analyzes your Toast sales history alongside day of week, holidays, school calendars, and local events — each event carrying an uplift measured from your own sales. Because it reads your live Toast stock, it knows when you 86'd an item and doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand — a mistake most spreadsheets make forever. And it grades itself: every past day is scored against what Butter predicted, with the bias read out in plain English.
- Which point-of-sale system does Butter work with?
- Butter connects to Toast. You link it once with your café's own Toast credentials — Toast issues those, and we walk you through the request — and every past sale flows in automatically.
- What do I have to set up?
- Two things. Connect Toast, and tell Butter how you order: which vendors, which days, and what comes in cases of what. Everything else it reads from your own sales. There's no product list to type in and no spreadsheet to keep up.
- What does Butter do besides ordering?
- Butter reconciles delivery invoices line-by-line — forward them to your café's Butter inbox or snap a photo — and flags every short before it's paid. It tracks stock and pars, draws the week's staffing call from the same demand curve that writes the order, runs consignment with a secure partner portal, lets managers handle counts under roles that keep your financials private, and monitors your neighborhood (new cafés, reviews, and local business news) — all from one login, across every café you run.
- Can my team and my vendors use Butter too?
- Yes. Invite managers with roles that keep sensitive financials private — they can submit weekly counts and calculate pars — and run more than one café from a single login. You can also invite consignment partners to a secure portal where they watch their own real-time sales across the cafés they stock.
- Who is Butter for?
- Independent cafés and coffee shops that want to cut waste and stop guessing their orders. It's built for the 5 a.m. bake, not the 10 a.m. meeting.
- How do I get in?
- Butter is invite-only while it's in beta. Put your email and your café's name on the list and we'll write when your turn comes. We open a few cafés at a time so we can actually listen to each one. If you know an owner who's already on Butter, ask them to mention you.
- How much does Butter cost?
- $99 a month per café once Butter opens to everyone, and that covers the entire product: inventory counting, sales history, demand forecasting, vendor ordering, invoice reconciliation, staffing and schedule-vs-actual, written insights, consignment with a partner portal, neighborhood and competitor intel, and assistant access over MCP. Nothing is metered, so vendors, invoices and the people you invite are never counted. When it opens, new cafés get 30 days free with no card, and cafés in the beta pay nothing while it lasts. Each café is its own subscription, so a second location is another $99. Full details at getbutter.app/pricing.
Invite-only beta · $99/mo per café when we open
Get your Sunday nights back.
Get on the list —
We write to every café on the list when it's their turn · no card, no contract