Self-hosted restaurant & café software
Menu digitisation with your own AI key, the food-safety diary, review requests, shift rotas, timesheets, and a POS — the back office of a food business without monthly fees. Every tool below is a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, and your data lives on your own server.
Self-hosted without the assembly
The other answer to “self-hosted” is a repository: clone it, read the compose file, provision a database, wire up mail, then keep it patched yourself. That is a fair answer when running infrastructure is already your job, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Everything on this page is the other kind — all 6 of them. Each is bought once, the full PHP source is in the download, and the web installer finishes on ordinary shared hosting in about two minutes. No Composer, no Node, no build step, nothing to compile, and nothing that phones home.
Menura
Photograph a menu, extract every item and price with your own AI key, review, then export POS-ready data.
Safora
Replace the paper food-safety diary with auto-flagged deviations and an audit-ready PDF and CSV export.
Revup — Review Requests with a Rating Gate (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted review requests for local service businesses: ratings at or above your threshold go to your public review page, and anything below it lands in a private inbox instead.
Rostera — Staff Shift Scheduler & Rota (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted staff shift scheduler — a weekly rota, exact hours, double-booking caught.
Clockora — Staff Timesheet & Time Tracker (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted staff timesheet — hours by project, exact totals, approvals. No invoicing.
Vendra — POS & Inventory System (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted POS & inventory engineered so overselling is impossible.
Restaurant Ops Suite
Menu engineering, food-safety logs, and review requests — the back office of a food business, self-hosted. — 3 of the tools on this page are in it.
Year one, rented
- Trustpilot — $1,188.00 in year one at $99.00/month (their own page, read 2026-09-03; replaced by Revup)
- Lightspeed Retail — $1,068.00 in year one at $89.00/month (their own page, read 2026-09-03; replaced by Vendra)
Every tool on this page is one payment; the figures above are the vendors' own published monthly prices multiplied by twelve, nothing else.
Replacing what you rent now
Read before you buy
What the Restaurant Ops Suite bundles — Safora for the temperature diary and deviations, Menura for getting a menu into the POS, Revup for asking the right customer for a review — with each product's refusals, the hand-offs between them, and the arithmetic beside buying them separately.
The limitation-smash release: your tools now write to the people they serve — client emails through your own SMTP, calendar feeds, attachments, export presets — every one of them off until you switch it on.
Typing 140 dishes and prices into a new POS is a day of work every restaurant does at least once. The one API vendor tracked for this won't publish a price and sits behind a $500 platform minimum. Here is the honest arithmetic.
The second angle behind "iauditor alternative for hospitality": the difference between a checklist app and an inspection register, why hotels mostly need the register, and the three states — due, overdue, never done — a spreadsheet cannot hold.
SafetyCulture prices iAuditor per seat — $24 a month each on annual billing, read from its own page. A hotel with twenty people doing checks pays for twenty seats. The self-hosted pair that covers the fire round, the kitchen diary and the evidence for a one-time price, refusals first.
Five registers, no payroll: what the Workforce Suite bundles, what each product refuses to do, how the rota, the timesheet, the leave calendar, the onboarding plan and the training matrix hand off to each other, and the arithmetic beside buying them one by one.
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