86 Restaurant Software

86 is back-office software built for independent restaurants — typically one to five locations — where the owner is the back office. It replaces the spreadsheet-and-shoebox workflow with one connected system: staff count inventory on a mobile app (photos, last-count context, offline mode), the team scans invoices with a phone, and the extracted costs propagate automatically to inventory items, recipe costs, dish profitability, and the books. Ordering forecasts from three years of sales data with holiday and long-weekend context. Bank feeds connect via Plaid and categorize automatically.

Setup is the differentiator: 86's AI builds the account from whatever the restaurant already has — shelf photos, paper lists, spreadsheets, POS exports, or exports from a competing system — in minutes rather than the multi-week implementations typical of the category. AI runs in the background rather than as a chatbot; counting stays human, because that is where precision matters.