A restaurant's software is mostly the till, and the till is a subscription with a processing fee — we priced that stack line by line in what a six-person café pays for software every year. Around the till sit three jobs that are not the till's, and the Restaurant Ops Suite is those three as self-hosted products bought once: the food-safety diary, the menu digitization nobody will quote for, and the review request. This page is what each does, what each refuses, and how they hand off.
The three, and where each stops
Safora replaces the paper food-safety diary. Six record types; temperature readings entered by staff and flagged automatically when they deviate; a green-amber-red compliance calendar; a manager's daily sign-off; an audit-ready export for the environmental health officer. It chases the breach nobody closed and treats a closed day as a closed day rather than a missing record. It does not connect to fridge probes or sensors — staff enter readings, though a sensor can post to its REST API and raise the same alert a person would — it submits nothing to any authority, and it is neither legal advice nor a certificate of compliance. One business per installation.
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Menura gets a menu into the till: photograph or upload the menu, let your own AI key extract every item and price, review before anything is exported, then write the file the POS imports — POS CSV, nested CSV or JSON, with the columns documented and pinned by tests — for as many menus as you keep. Bring your own model key. It does not speak any till vendor's API and holds no till credentials; it writes files you import. Scanned menus are the model's job and models vary; there is no OCR built in. One restaurant per installation, shared by your staff with viewer, member and admin roles. Getting a menu into your POS is the account of why this job has no price list.
Revup asks for the review, once, at the right moment: a send window that releases itself, one follow-up sent only to silence, a rating page that shows every customer your public review link and offers the unhappy ones a private message too, unique single-use rating links, your own SMTP and Twilio. Plain-text email by design, because a plain message from your own server lands where a templated one often does not. It is a window plus one follow-up, not a drip campaign — a second ask reads as pestering and costs more reviews than it wins — and the unattended schedule needs a cron entry you install.
All three are self-hosted PHP applications with the data in your own database, an audit trail, two-factor authentication, backup and restore, and — since the 3.0 release — a REST API and an MCP endpoint behind a scoped key.
How they hand off
Menura's output goes into the till and stops there; the till stays whatever the till is. Safora's diary runs beside the kitchen every day and produces the export on the day the inspector visits. Revup fires after the meal, from your own mail server, and asks every customer the same way. Three products, three moments in the operation, no overlap and no pretense that any of them is the POS. If you want a self-hosted POS as well, Vendra is that product and it is in the Retail Suite; the reason it is not in this one is that most restaurants keep the till they have.
The arithmetic, labeled as arithmetic
At the single-license prices on the product pages today, 2 September 2026 — Safora $79, Menura $89, Revup $99 — the three bought separately are $267. The Restaurant Ops Suite is $149; the suite page computes the saving live from the current prices, so trust it over this paragraph if they ever differ. On the rented side, from the vendors' own pages and dated: SafetyCulture's Premium plan at $24 per seat per month on annual billing and FoodDocs' Lite at $79 per site per month on annual billing (excluding VAT), both read on 5 July 2026 and re-read on 3 September 2026 with both figures unchanged — though SafetyCulture's address now redirects to mitti.com, where the product is branded Mitti (by SafetyCulture) and the free plan is stated as being for teams of up to ten people — the per-seat versus per-site crossover works out which is cheaper for a kitchen of your shape, and the answer is not the one the vendors' comparison pages give.
The refusals, once more
No sensors. No submission to any authority. No till API. No OCR. No drip campaigns. A restaurant that needs one of those needs a different product and would rather know before paying. The three demos are open without a sign-up — Safora, Menura, Revup — and own the stack is the overview of every suite. Every vendor figure on this page is in the Price Observatory, dated and source-linked, free to cite.