Upload the sheet
Send the weekly or monthly inventory spreadsheet your team already uses. CSV, TSV, XLS, and XLSX are supported for pilot intake.
Restaurant Inventory
Weekly inventory, turned into an owner report.
Restaurants already count inventory. Answered turns the spreadsheet into low-stock alerts, reorder lists, waste notes, and weekly or monthly summaries.
Spreadsheet-first. Integrations where they help. No forced POS replacement.
Sample owner report
Friday inventory check
12items below par
4waste notes
$640reorder estimate
Chicken breastBelow parOrder 2 casesSysco
To-go cupsLowOrder by ThursdayRestaurant Depot
RomaineWaste spikeCheck prep volumeProduce vendor
RibeyeOverstockHold reorderUS Foods
How it works
Start with the sheet your team already trusts.
The first version should not ask a restaurant to change every system. It should read the current inventory process, clean up the messy parts, and make the owner's next move obvious.
Map the columns
Answered normalizes item, category, unit, vendor, count, par level, cost, and reorder notes into one clean operating view.
Connect what matters
Where available, the system can connect to POS, accounting, ordering, or vendor tools. Spreadsheet intake remains the fallback.
Send the owner report
The owner gets low-stock items, overstock risks, waste notes, 86 items, reorder lists, and trend changes without rebuilding the restaurant's process.
Connected systems
Connect where useful. Keep the spreadsheet fallback.
Restaurant systems vary. Some operators have clean POS exports, some have vendor order sheets, and some still run inventory from a manager's spreadsheet. Answered can work from the spreadsheet first, then connect systems only when the connection creates better reporting.
Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, or other POS exports
QuickBooks or bookkeeping spreadsheets
Sysco, US Foods, Restaurant Depot, and local vendor order lists
Manager-entered 86 items, waste notes, and prep-count comments
Pilot intake
Send the current sheet. We will map the reporting path.
This is the practical first step: upload the inventory file, name the system you use now, and tell Answered what the owner report needs to catch.
Food safety, accounting, and vendor purchasing rules stay with the restaurant. Answered organizes visibility and reporting.
For larger files or private vendor portals, Answered follows up with a secure upload or connection plan.