Most takeaway stock control lives in one of two places: a spreadsheet that gets updated when someone remembers, or an EPOS module designed for supermarkets that nobody in the kitchen has ever opened. Both fail for the same reason — they sit outside the system that actually takes the orders. So today we are switching on something we have quietly been building into the MyFoodFast back office: full stock control, designed around how a takeaway actually works.
Ingredients, not just products
A takeaway does not sell flour and mozzarella — it sells pizzas made from them. So stock control starts at the ingredient level: every ingredient with its unit, cost, supplier and a live stock figure, with minimum-stock alerts so you reorder before Friday night finds the gap. Import your ingredient list from a spreadsheet in one click, and export it back out whenever you want.
Recipes that cost every dish on your menu
Map each menu item to a recipe and the back office rolls ingredient costs up into a total food cost per dish — then shows your food-cost percentage against the selling price, live, as you change a recipe line. Set a target margin and it suggests the selling price. Batch recipes handle your prep too: cost a batch of red pesto or pizza dough once, and every dish that uses it stays accurate per gram.
Supplier orders that do the stock work for you
Build a purchase order in the back office and email it straight to your supplier. When the delivery arrives and you mark it received, stock is credited automatically — no retyping the invoice. Reorder from your last order in one tap, or fill the order up to your maximum levels automatically.
Built for franchise groups
For multi-site groups this is where it gets interesting. Ingredients and recipes can be managed once at company level while every store keeps its own stock figures and ordering. And stores that buy from a central kitchen or head office can raise internal orders inside the same screen they use for any other supplier — head office is simply marked as an internal supplier. If you run a franchise, your supply chain and your tills finally live in one system.
One brain, again
Like everything in MyFoodFast, stock control is not a bolted-on module — it runs on the same engine as your menu, your POS, your kiosk and your ordering site. Your menu only exists once, so your recipes, costs and stock all agree with each other by construction. Stock Control is a per-store monthly add-on with no contract — the price is published, like everything else, on our pricing page. If you have ever wanted to know your real margins per dish without a weekend of spreadsheet work, it pays for itself the first time it catches a mispriced dish. And if you are still on a legacy EPOS that treats stock as an enterprise add-on, we should talk.
