Brigado

Know what every plate costs.

Brigado counts your shelves, prices your recipes and reads your invoices. It runs on the iPhone in your apron and the iPad on the pass, and keeps your data in your own iCloud.

Coming to the App Store in 2027.

Want to hear when it's out? Email support@brigadoapp.com.

$39.99 or $79.99 a month after a free month. No contract, no setup fee.

Counting the walk-in cooler on iPhone: chicken thigh, a keypad, and a note that it's 40 lb less than last count.

One restaurant on every screen.

Count on your phone in the walk-in, cost recipes on the iPad, run the month on the Mac. Everyone on your team sees the same numbers.

The dashboard on iPad: menu food cost 10.2%, an invoice to review, the biggest price increases and count changes. The same restaurant's Today screen on iPhone: menu food cost 10.2% and the latest price increases.

iPhone and iPhone Duo, iOS 18 or lateriPad, iPadOS 18 or laterMac, macOS 15 or later

Storage areas on iPad in walk order: walk-in cooler, freezer, dry storage and bar, each last counted last week.

Count in the order you walk.

Your storage areas in shelf order, a big keypad for gloved hands, cases and loose amounts in one go. Every number is saved the moment you type it, even with no signal in the walk-in.

  • Hold the button and say what you see
  • Scan a barcode to jump to the item
  • Split the areas between people and count at once
A recipe on iPhone with each ingredient's cost and the dish's food cost against a 28% target.

Every dish, costed to the cent.

Ingredients in any unit, trim and cooking yields, sauces as sub-recipes. Each dish shows its cost per plate and its food cost against your target, and what a price change would do to it.

  • New prices flow into every recipe that uses them
  • A heads-up when a supplier raises a price
Invoices on iPad: one from Green Valley Produce for $133.05 waiting, with one line to check.

Photograph the invoice. Check only what's flagged.

Brigado reads each line and checks quantity times price, the lines against the total, and the price against last time. You look at the lines that need it. When the truck arrives, tick the delivery off against the same invoice.

Invoice reading is part of Kitchen: 500 pages a month.

This month's report on iPad: opening stock, purchases and closing stock giving cost of goods, then every price change by supplier.

Food cost for the week, ready on Monday.

Opening stock plus purchases minus closing stock, by week or month, with spend by supplier and every price change. Send your accountant a CSV, or keep a full backup.

Your data stays in your iCloud, not on our servers.

Counts, recipes and invoices live in your Apple account and sync between your team's devices. We never see them.

No sign-up

Brigado uses the Apple Account already on your phone. No new password, no sales call.

Export any time

CSV, PDF or a full backup, whenever you like, even after a plan ends.

Nothing is deleted

If a plan ends, Brigado turns read-only. Every count and recipe stays where it was.

How your data is kept

Two plans. The first month is free.

Essentials Counting, recipe costs and price lists for up to 3 people. $39.99 a month
Kitchen Everything in Essentials, plus invoice reading and cloud voice counting, for up to 6 people. $79.99 a month

A year costs ten months: $399.99 or $799.99. Billed and cancelled through the App Store. Pricing details