Reads your invoices, prices, stock, sales and menu, and finds what's worth doing today.
A short film of Luma, your food business assistant, and what TABLEVA does, on sample data.
Luma, your food business assistant. Reads your invoices, prices, stock, sales and menu, and finds what's worth doing today. Purchasing, Invoices, Stock, Dish margins, Proven savings, Staffing, Labour costs, Bookings, Sales forecasts, Suppliers, Surplus, Your sites.
Buy better: Smart purchasing. Compare suppliers on what you really pay. Cod loin, 2 kg, for friday's service: Your usual, £36.00 plus £9.50 delivery, £45.50 delivered; Fishmonger, £33.00 plus £14.00 delivery, £47.00 delivered; Nearby, £35.00 plus £4.00 delivery, £39.00 delivered. Your basket: the cheapest delivered, with eggs and lemons from the others, 3 suppliers, 1 approval. One basket for you to approve.
Buy better: Invoice intelligence. Know what you paid, and spot what changed. Butter, 2 kg block, Same butter, same supplier: now £15.35 a block, up £1.15. Last month's invoice, 4 blocks, £14.20 a block; This week's invoice, 4 blocks, £15.35 a block. Spotted before you reorder.
Buy better: Inventory & stock control. Use what you have before you buy more. Stock this morning, Before the next order: Whole milk, Used most days, 6 L; Plum tomatoes, Delivery due Thursday, 2 crates; Free-range eggs, Enough until Saturday, 4 trays; Double cream, Use by Friday, 3 L. Milk is running low. Counted before Luma suggests an order.
Buy better: Menu & dish profitability. See what each dish makes after its ingredients. Fish pie, 66% after ingredients, down from 71%; Steak frites, 71% after ingredients; Mushroom risotto, 79% after ingredients; Burger and chips, 72% after ingredients, against a 70% target. This week's invoice: cod loin went from £16.40 to £18.90 a kg. Costed from your own invoices.
Buy better: Verified savings. Count only the savings you can prove. Rapeseed oil, 20 L tub, Possible today, proven next week: Possible saving, £4.20 a tub (A cheaper price Luma found), then Proven saving, £4.20 a tub (Your next invoice shows it). Counted in Total Saved: Only the proven one. Checked against your own invoices.
Run smarter: Staffing & labour planning. Staff each service for the covers you expect. Saturday dinner, next week, 66 covers expected (from your till and bookings): Front of house, 6 on the rota, 5 suggested; Kitchen, 4 on the rota, 4 suggested; Bar, 1 on the rota, 2 suggested. Luma suggests: move one front-of-house shift to the bar. Your call: move one shift to the bar.
Run smarter: Payroll & labour costs. Know what staffing really costs. What September's staffing cost, Owners only: £28,900 total employer cost. Gross wages, £24,180; Employer National Insurance, £2,240; Employer pension, £725; Agency staff, £1,350; Levy and other costs, £405. 31.2% of £92,600 sales. Totals only, never staff records.
Run smarter: Reservations & bookings. Plan for the covers already in the book. Dinner covers next week, From your booking system's export: Booked: M 12, T 10, W 18, T 46, F 52, S 40, S 22; Walk-ins expected: M 14, T 12, W 16, T 20, F 24, S 26, S 18. Thursday: 66 covers to plan for.
Run smarter: Sales & demand forecasting. Order for the week you're about to have. Fish and chips sold each day: 4 weeks of till sales, then next week forecast. Fish and chips, Friday: about 26. Cod loin: 19 kg needed, less 4 kg in stock: order 15 kg. Friday sells about twice Tuesday.
Run smarter: Luma AI assistant. An assistant that does the checking for you. Today, from Luma, Three things worth doing: Buying, Double cream is up 18p a litre, Check prices; Stock, Milk shows below zero, Count now; Menu, Fish pie slipped below target, See why. Luma suggests. You decide..
Grow together: Supplier marketplace. Find suppliers who deliver to you, and compare them fairly. Suppliers who deliver to you, Free for suppliers to list: 7 on the map, ranked on Price, Quality, Reliability, Delivered in full. Never on who pays.
Grow together: Local surplus & donations. Food you won't use deserves a buyer, not the bin. Early pilot. Chicken thighs, use by thursday: from Your kitchen to A restaurant round the corner, not the bin. They'll use them by Thursday. You check it's safe and set the price.
Grow together: Multi-site & private networks. Run several sites without buying twice. Coming soon. Salmon fillet this week, One group, three kitchens: City centre, Has spare, use by Friday, 3 kg spare; Riverside, Ordering tomorrow, Needs 2 kg; Hotel kitchen, Fully stocked, None needed. Bought from outside the group: Nothing. Sharing between your sites comes next.
How it fits together: Luma joins it all up. Every part teaches Luma something. Together, they show how your whole business runs. Prices, Invoices, Recipes, Stock, Till sales, Staff costs, Rota, Bookings. Prices and Invoices: The best price for each item; Invoices and Recipes: What every dish costs; Stock and Till sales: What you'll use next week; Till sales and Staff costs: Staff costs beside your sales; Rota and Bookings: Where your rota runs over or under.
What it adds up to: Every saving, added up. What each part found in one sample month, rolled into one total. Smart purchasing, Cheaper suppliers found: £412; Invoice intelligence, Price rises caught: £186; Stock control, Less food in the bin: £238; Dish profitability, Better menu margins: £164; Staffing, Rota matched to covers: £276; Local surplus, Spare stock sold nearby (Early pilot): £120. Together, £1,396 saved this month. Sample month for one restaurant. Not a customer result or a promise..
One connected network: Buy better. Waste less. Share the rest. Your kitchen, suppliers, neighbours and local charities, connected by Luma. Your kitchen: Use what you have; Suppliers: Buy at a fair price; Your other sites: Share what's spare (Coming soon); Restaurants nearby: Sell surplus nearby (Early pilot); Local charities: Donate the rest (Early pilot).
8–10%of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food that's lost or wasted. Almost five times as much as aviation.
28%of food wasted worldwide comes from food service, including restaurants.
Who it's for
Built for every food business, not just restaurants.
If you buy from more than one supplier, TABLEVA can help. It puts the suppliers on TABLEVA in one basket, shows where you're overpaying and helps you order closer to what you sell, whether you serve from a dining room, a counter or a hatch.
Restaurants and pubs
Suppliers on TABLEVA in one basket, and every dish costed.
Show 5 kinds of business
Independent restaurants
Pubs and bars
Gastropubs
Casual dining
Fine dining
Cafés and takeaways
Milk, coffee and bakes bought at the best price, and orders closer to what you sell.
Show 4 kinds of business
Cafés and coffee shops
Takeaways
Bakeries
Delis and sandwich shops
Mobile and events
Small fridges, so buy just what you'll use, and cost each menu before you quote.
Show 5 kinds of business
Food trucks
Market stalls
Street food traders
Event caterers
Pop-ups
Groups and hotels
Restaurant and room-service buying in one basket. Every site can start today, and tools for running sites together are coming next.
Show 4 kinds of business
Multi-site restaurants
Hotels
Restaurant groups and chains
Corporate and contract caterers
Suppliers of every size can join too, from farms and butchers to bakeries and wholesalers. See TABLEVA for suppliers
Food trucks & market stallsLumaExample£4.20 less on your frying oilThe same 20 L tub, from a supplier who delivers Friday.Pubs & barsLumaExampleOrder 2 kg less tomatoes this weekBased on what your kitchen actually used.
Luma, your AI assistant
What Luma learns, and where you could save.
Luma starts with your invoices and learns from everything you add. The more it knows about how your kitchen runs, the more it finds: in your rota and your menu margins, not just your ingredient prices. It suggests; you decide.
InvoicesWhat you pay, to whom, and how prices move
Menu and recipesWhat every dish costs to make
Till salesWhat sells, and when
Rota and bookingsHours planned against the covers you expect
Illustrative example: a 60-cover independent restaurant
4.5% lower food cost on its top 20 ingredients
About £290 a month. Spending £6,400 a month on them.
9 hours a week of rota over what bookings needed
About £495 a month. Paid at £12.71 an hour.
5 of 38 dishes below a 70% gross-margin target
About £260 a month. If they hit target: 100 sold a week at £15, now 4 points under.
Together: about £1,045 a month, or about £240 a week.
Possible savings worked for a typical UK independent, not a customer result or a promise. Your own figures come from your own data, and only savings your records prove count in Total Saved.
The Surplus Lab: see if your price beats their supplier
Surplus Lab: 6 kg chicken thighsThe Lantern, SE10 · use by Thursday · per kiloYour priceDeliveryCheapest supplier price there
Collected from you in SE10£4.50 your price£4.50/kgCheapest supplier there: £6.40/kgBeats it by £1.90/kg
Delivered to SE3, £9 charge£4.50 your price + £1.50 delivery£6.00/kgCheapest supplier there: £5.90/kg£0.10/kg dearer
Luma Collected, you're £1.90/kg under the cheapest supplier on TABLEVA. For SE3, charging £8 for delivery brings you to £5.83/kg, under £5.90. 3 restaurants in SE10 are likely to use it before Thursday.
Example · sample data
Selling to another restaurant? Try a price, a delivery charge and the areas you'd deliver to. For each area, the Lab shows whether your price, after delivery, beats the cheapest supplier price restaurants there pay on TABLEVA.
See how many restaurants nearby are likely to use it before its date
Supplier names are never shown, and you see who buys once they've bought
Nothing you try is saved or published
Early pilot: in Sell stock, for anything you've listed.
Today you can upload supplier invoices as PDF, Excel or CSV, and sales from any till that exports a CSV or Excel file. Direct connections are being switched on one by one, and each one replaces an upload.
Coming soon
Square
Epos Now
Lightspeed Restaurant
Toast
Xero
QuickBooks
Stripe
WhatsApp
ChatGPT
Claude
Zettle
Erudus allergen data
Product names and logos belong to their owners. Showing one doesn't mean that company partners with or endorses TABLEVA. Connections work only once they're switched on and you've allowed them.
