You pour, plate, fix, and greet — meanwhile your menu changes even when you don't touch it: prices creep, seasons turn, neighbours reprice. Lacrema notices, shows you what it means in money, and drafts the move. You make the call.
Free while you get started · No POS required · Set up in an afternoon
A menu and an address are enough to start — no POS connection, no spreadsheet homework. Lacrema builds a trusted picture of your venue — every item, ingredient, cost, and piece of equipment — and every number keeps its source, its freshness, and how sure Lacrema is of it.
Lacrema watches your margins, your suppliers, and your local market. Each day worth your attention brings three to five cards, ranked by impact and fit with your goals — every one a decision with the money attached, the evidence one tap away, and the change already drafted.
Not every move is a price move: sometimes it's a clearer name, a better placement, or a bundle. Nothing is applied until you click — and when nothing needs you, the feed stays quiet.
Most tools reset to zero every time you open them. Lacrema is different: it remembers every conversation, every decision, and how each one played out. A few weeks after a change, it comes back with what actually happened — held against what it expected. The longer you work together, the sharper its advice becomes.
Your venue, costs, and suppliers mapped. First quick wins on pricing and portions.
It has seen your seasonality and bestsellers, and remembers which suggestions you took, which you refused, and why.
The more calls you make together, the more it carries: menu plans, negotiations, your next location.
Marina runs a café with a 58-item menu. Last week she gave Lacrema two things: her menu and her address. No POS connection, no spreadsheet homework. This is Tuesday, 7:40 AM.
Milk costs more than it did in spring. A cappuccino with local headroom. Eleven ingredients used in exactly one dish.
"What if the flat white goes to one size?" Lacrema drafts it: recipe updated, cost per serve recalculated, the old version kept.
The menu gets a new version with the reason attached. She adds one rule in passing: no price rises before September. Filed where she can see it.
Margin per serve is up and the kitchen likes pouring one size. She keeps it. Next winter, Lacrema starts from what worked.
Marina and her numbers are illustrative — the flow is exactly how Lacrema works.
No analyst team, no week to spare for a rollout. If your menu decisions live in gut feel and a spreadsheet, Lacrema is for you.
You pull the shots, fix the grinder, and do the books after close. Lacrema watches the numbers side and brings you only what's worth a minute — you stay the one who decides.
Two to ten venues, one brain. See every site's picture in one place, spot the one overpaying for milk, and roll what worked in one venue out to the rest.
The menu isn't printed yet. Cost it before you commit, set opening prices with local context, and open on day one with cost and margin per serve already mapped.
A photo of your menu and your address is enough. Add supplier invoices whenever you want costs confirmed — or just describe your place in chat.
Lacrema maps items to ingredients and costs, labels what's confirmed and what's estimated, and reads your local market for context.
Review the day's cards in your Pulse and approve the ones you like. Each change lands as a new, revertible version — and Lacrema returns with what happened.
Every plan starts with free access — no card, no commitment.
We onboard a small number of venues each week so every one gets set up properly. Tell us where you are and we will send your setup link.