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Count
Know what's in stock
Keep track of ingredients and disposables at every location as deliveries, sales, waste and counts are recorded.
Stock control
Know what's in stock. See what it's worth. Catch what doesn't add up.
Garlic brings deliveries, sales, waste and stock counts together, so you can spot missing stock, slow-moving products and money sitting on the shelf.
Stock counts
Market Street
Tue 21 Jul
All productsNeeds reviewShortagesSurpluses
Total variance
−£34.80
Unexplained value
Shortage
−£63.80
Below expected
Surplus
£29.00
Above expected
Needs review
9
Outside tolerance
Variance review 24
Search counted products
ProductExpectedCountedVarianceValue impactStatus
Boneless chicken thigh
CHK-THIGH-5KG · Meat · 5kg case
Expected
6 cases
Counted
5 cases
Variance
−1 case
Value
−£34.80
Cucumbers
CUC-5KG · Produce · 5kg crate
Expected
4 crates
Counted
6 crates
Variance
+2 crates
Value
+£29.00
Bao buns
BAO-30 · Frozen · 30 pack
Expected
8 packs
Counted
8 packs
Variance
0 packs
Value
£0.00
Expected stock, counted stock and value in one view, shown with fictional sample data.
02
Value
See what it's worth
See the value of the stock you hold and find products that haven't moved recently.
03
Review
Catch what doesn't add up
Put the biggest shortages and surpluses at the top of the list, with their value attached.
Stock moves with service
A dish sells. Its ingredients come off stock.
Connect your locations and menu to Square or SumUp and Garlic uses each sale to remove the ingredients behind the dish from stock. No POS connection? Enter the number sold manually in the dashboard and Garlic depletes stock in the same way.
Deliveries, waste and team adjustments are added too, giving you a running picture of what should be left.
Movement reconciliation
Boneless chicken thigh · Market Street
Opening count
6 cases
Ordered
2 cases
Received
+2 cases
Sales usageSquare · bao sales
−1.5 cases
Waste logged
−0.25 case
Manual adjustment
−0.25 case
Expected closing stock
6 cases
Actual count
5 cases
Square sales of Gochujang chicken bao update ingredient usage automatically; manual entries remain available for movements outside the till.
Boneless chicken thigh
CHK-THIGH-5KG · Meat · 5kg case
Expected
6 cases
Counted
5 cases
Variance
−1 case
Value
−£34.80
Movement reconciliation
Opening count
6 cases
Ordered
2 cases
Received
+2 cases
Sales usage
−1.5 cases
Waste logged
−0.25 case
Manual adjustment
−0.25 case
Expected closing stock
6 cases
Actual count
5 cases
What to check
Check for unlogged waste, prep usage, incorrect recipe mapping, or receiving and counting errors.
Count stock, skip the paperwork
Your team counts. Garlic puts the biggest differences first.
Count stock where it lives. With an opening and closing count in place, Garlic works out what should be left from sales, deliveries and waste. You see what matched, what didn't and how much the difference is worth.
Count stock in the Garlic mobile app, right where it's stored
Compare one completed count with the next
Account for deliveries, sales and recorded waste between counts
See the quantity and value behind every difference
Find where margin slips
When margin falls short, know where to start looking.
Food cost, waste and stock that isn't moving each tell a different part of the story. Garlic keeps them side by side, so you can start with the products and routines most worth checking.
See food cost as a share of sales
See how much recorded waste is costing you
Find money sitting in stock that hasn't moved
See which products are worth a closer look
Operating detail
Margin and cash drivers
Cost of goods
Share of revenue
£12,840 of sales was consumed by product cost.
Waste leakage
Share of COGS
£284 lost to recorded waste.
Slow-moving stock
Share of inventory value
Cash held in stock with limited recent movement.
Every count makes the next order clearer.
Turn what you counted into a better next order.
Shortages, waste and slow-moving stock show where you may be buying too much, too little or at the wrong time. Take that into the next order instead of making the same call again.
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