Futavel started with a restaurant owner who wanted something made just for restaurants. A restaurant is hundreds of small things that all have to happen today.
Who’s on tonight. Whether the walk-in got cleaned. How much salmon is left. Who’s covering Saturday. Whether the new server knows how to close.
In a lot of restaurants, all of that lives in a group text, a paper schedule on the wall, a notebook by the register, a spreadsheet and the owner’s head. It works until someone’s out sick, the notebook goes missing, or you open a second location.
We made Futavel so it can all live in one place instead, on the phones people already carry. Here’s what we decided along the way.
If an app takes training, nobody opens it during a dinner rush. So Futavel uses big buttons and plain words, says what things are instead of hiding them behind icons, and has a Baby steps mode that points to what to do next.
Hiring another dishwasher shouldn’t change your software bill. Futavel costs the same whether you have five people or fifty, so you never have to think twice about adding someone to it.
It’s your restaurant, so you choose what each manager can see and do, who counts stock, who edits the menu and whether the time clock checks a location. Everyone else only sees what’s meant for them.
Kitchens run in more than one language. Futavel speaks thirteen, and each person picks their own. What people type stays as they wrote it.
You pay for Futavel, and that’s how we make our money. We don’t sell your information or show ads, and our website has no trackers.
Futavel doesn’t take orders or card payments at the counter, and it doesn’t run payroll. Keep the tools you have for those, and use Futavel beside them. See how it compares.
Sales, fees, gross pay, net pay and profit, by week, month or year, with graphs and a PDF you can save. Connect Stripe to bring your sales in, and type in your DoorDash and Uber Eats numbers from their statements.
Each location’s card shows who’s on the clock and a color from green to red for how much it needs you. Do one thing at several at once instead of doing it over and over. Each location after the first is $35 a month.
Send to one person, a group or everyone. Urgent messages stay at the top of Home until they’re opened, and private ones open with a PIN.
Anyone can report something broken or unsafe, with a photo. Urgent issues come straight to the top of your day.
Each group has its own list, so closing is the same whoever closes.
Short lessons for the kitchen, cashiers and servers, plus your own videos, and you can see who has finished.
A private to-do list and calendar for the owner, shared only if you choose.
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Russian and Hindi. Each person picks their own.
The sample restaurant opens in your browser, with no account and no card.