Futavel

For small, independent restaurants

One flat price. Your whole team. Their own language.

Your sales, schedules, the time clock, tasks and inventory in one place, for under $2 a day however many people you have. Thirteen languages, and each person picks their own.

7 days free when you sign in with Apple. Then $49.99 a month or $499.99 a year, plus applicable sales tax. With an email account, your plan starts today. Cancel anytime.

Who we are

Buy back your freedom.

Futavel was made by a restaurant owner, for restaurant owners. Owning a restaurant shouldn’t mean living in one, so we turned the daily running of yours into simple systems on your phone, wherever you are.

Buy your freedom

Schedules, the time clock, tasks, inventory, your menu and your team’s messages, all in your hand. Run the day from home, from the road or from your other location.

Buy your time

Every text you don’t answer and every trip you don’t make is time back. Give the task, see the photo when it’s done, and spend your hours where they add the most value: your guests, your food, your team.

Buy your peace of mind

See today’s sales, who’s on the clock and what’s running low, from anywhere. When someone reports something urgent, your phone tells you. You know how the day is going without calling anyone.

Build your next location

With systems in place, every shift has the same tasks and checklists, whoever’s working. That’s what gives you the time to open your next location, and your menu, stock list and checklist copy right over.

What’s the return on a day off that stays a day off? On the time to open your next location? We don’t think you can measure it.

One flat price. Your whole team. Your time back.

Why we made Futavel

What Futavel does

It replaces the group text, the paper schedule on the wall and the notebook by the register with one app everyone shares. Each person only sees what’s meant for them.

Everyone knows when they work

Build the week by person or by day, and see the hours and labor cost as you go. Your team sees their own shifts on their own phones, and clocks in on a time clock you control.

  • Lunches and breaks on each shift
  • Clock in, lunch and clock out, with an optional PIN
  • An optional location check, only at the moment someone clocks in
  • Timesheets, fixes and approvals for missed hours
The Schedule screen: a week of shifts for six people, with hours and an estimated labor cost for each day.

Tasks that get finished

Give a task to one person, a group or everyone. Say when it’s due and how it should be done, then see that it was.

  • A timer they start when they begin
  • Step-by-step checklists, and a yes or no question
  • A photo when it’s done, and your approval if you want it
  • Repeat it every day or every week
A task called Deep clean the fryer, with a 45 minute timer, four steps, a photo when it’s done and a manager’s approval.

Know what you have before you run out

Type in what came in or went out from a phone, see what’s low and what’s on the way, and keep your menu and recipes in one place.

  • Par levels and running-low lists
  • Deliveries that add to your stock when they’re checked in
  • Your menu, with photos and market prices
  • Recipes that can use up stock as dishes are made
The Inventory screen: stock items with how much is left, which are running low and what’s on the way in today’s deliveries.

Also inside: sales and profit, several locations at a glance, messages, issue reports, checklists, training and your own calendar. See everything

Why Futavel instead of a big all-in-one system

Made just for restaurants, and built around the people running the shift.

One flat price

No charge per person, no contract, no setup fee and no sales call. Hiring another dishwasher doesn’t change your bill.

Their own language

Thirteen languages, and each person picks their own, so the whole kitchen can actually use it. What people type stays as they wrote it.

Made for independents

It runs on the phones your team already has, with big buttons and plain words. Open it and start, with no special hardware.

It doesn’t take orders or run payroll, so keep the tools you have for those. See how it compares

Getting started

  1. Choose your plan

    Make an account, choose monthly or yearly, and name your restaurant. Sign in with Apple and nothing is charged for the first 7 days. With an email account, your plan starts today.

  2. Add your people

    Add each person with a username and password, then share their login. They sign in with your restaurant’s code.

  3. Run the day

    Put up the schedule and hand out the first tasks. Turn on Baby steps if you’d like the app to point to what to do next.

Your information stays yours

We don’t sell your information, show ads or track you across other apps and websites.

  • Each person’s phone only gets what they may see: no pay rates, no one else’s hours, no tasks meant for others.
  • The owner chooses what each manager can see and do.
  • Passwords are only stored scrambled, and information is encrypted on its way to our servers.
  • You can delete your account and your restaurant’s information from Settings at any time.

One price for your whole team

Under $2 a day, however many people you have.

Monthly

$49.99 a month

Under $2 a day for your whole team, plus applicable sales tax. 7 days free when you sign in with Apple.

Monthly subscription

Yearly About 2 months free

$499.99 a year

Works out to $41.67 a month, plus applicable sales tax. 7 days free when you sign in with Apple.

Yearly subscription

Each added location

$35 a month

Plus applicable sales tax, on top of either plan. Your first location is included.

You subscribe here on the website. The iPhone and iPad app, coming to the App Store, will be free to download: sign in with the same account and your plan comes along.

See all the details on pricing

See it for yourself.

Open a full sample restaurant right in your browser, with no account and no card. Try it as the owner, a manager or an employee.