Café profitability resource hub
Anteiku helps independent cafés recover margin by tracking food waste, stock discrepancies, and margin leaks in daily operations — without replacing your POS.
Solutions
- Food waste software for cafés
Log floor waste in seconds, tie it to menu costs, and see where margin leaves your café each day.
- Café margin tracking
Track stock variance, waste cost, and margin leaks across one or more café locations.
- Café inventory management
Daily opening and closing counts for café menus — accountant-style, not warehouse software.
- Bakery waste management
Track pastry, bread, and prep waste with floor-friendly logging built for bakeries and café bakeries.
- EU food waste compliance for cafés
Build structured waste records and period exports to support EU food waste reporting expectations.
Tools and templates
- Café profit margin calculator
Estimate monthly waste cost, recoverable margin, and Starter plan payback from your revenue and food-cost assumptions.
- Café waste log template
A simple CSV waste log template for cafés — date, product, quantity, reason, and cost columns.
- Spreadsheet vs Anteiku
When a spreadsheet is enough for café waste tracking — and when daily Anteiku logging saves more time and margin.
From the blog
- Your café menu and your tracking list are not the same thing
Waste does not happen at menu level. It happens before the croissant is baked and before the flat white is poured. Track ingredients and finished items separately — with supplier cost, not selling price.
- EU food waste regulations: what independent cafés need to know
Around 60 million tonnes of food is wasted across the EU each year. Restaurants and cafés are now explicitly in scope — with national implementation due by June 2027.
- Why your café is losing money without a waste log
Your POS shows sales. Your accountant shows spend. Neither shows what vanished in between — and that gap is larger than most owners realise.
- Daily stock counts vs waste logs: what actually matters
Stock variance shows something changed. A waste log shows what you threw away, remade, or gave away — and that is the number that protects margin.