Hatchline LabsAsheville, NC Preorder

Back-of-house app · Asheville, NC

Know your plate down to the penny.

Hatchline Labs is the back-of-house app for independent kitchens: smart prep lists, par-level alerts, voice add, shift handoff notes, recipe costing and an offline mode that keeps working when the wifi doesn't.

Preorder on the App Store See the six tools
  • No spreadsheets
  • No training day
  • Works with no signal
An open notebook, a phone and a yellow sticky note on a diner table after service
Walk-in count Par 12 → order 2 cases

The app

Six tools, one counter.

Everything here came off a working prep shift. Nothing in it needs a consultant, a training day or a new tablet.

01

Smart prep lists

Build it once and it rebuilds itself from what actually sold, so pre-service stops being a guess written on a napkin.

02

Par-level alerts

Count it, tap it, move on. When something drops under par you hear about it before the rush does, not during it.

03

Voice add

Hands full of mise? Say it out loud and it lands on the right list, with no wiping your hands to poke at a screen.

A cook speaking a note into a phone propped against a steel shelf mid-prep
Voice add — say it, it's on the list
04

Shift handoff notes

The four o'clock cook tells the nine o'clock cook what actually happened. One screen, not forty unread group texts.

05

Recipe costing

Yield loss, trim and portion size priced in, per plate, down to the penny.

06

Offline mode

The walk-in, the basement, the corner of the dining room where the signal gives up. Hatchline keeps counting anyway, and syncs itself the moment you're back in the light.

“The plate cost isn't a feeling. It's a number you can argue with.”

One app. Six tools. Built for independents.

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Recipe costing

The math that decides whether Friday was good.

Recipe costing takes your invoice numbers, your trim, your yield and your portion and hands you a cost per plate. Then it hands you the part nobody likes: the margin you thought you had.

A kitchen scale with a plated portion, a pencil and a paper receipt on a steel counter
Portion, trim, yield — costed on the line

Plate cost worksheet

Sample figures · short rib, dinner service

Case, as delivered$86.00
Usable after trim7.8 lb
True cost per lb$11.03
Plate cost$5.51
Menu price$24.00
Food cost23%

Priced at 18% before trim. The trim ate the difference.

This is the number to fix first

Shift handoff notes

The page that gets passed between cooks.

Nobody reads a group chat at 4pm with a pan in one hand. Handoff notes are one screen, written like a note taped to the pass: what ran out, what's running warm, what the next cook must not do twice.

  • 86Anything sold out gets flagged the moment it goes.
  • TEMPEquipment problems travel with the shift, not with a rumour.
  • NEXTPrep that carried over is already on tomorrow's list.

2nd walk-in running warm — called it in at 3:40.

Short rib sold out by 8:15, 86'd it on the board.

New case of lemons in dry storage. Do not order more.

Salt the sauce once, not twice.

— the four o'clock cook

A handwritten note taped to a stainless steel prep counter with a cook's hands in frame

Offline mode

Basements, walk-ins and dead zones.

The best counting happens where the signal doesn't go. Offline mode keeps every list, count and note working with no bars at all, then syncs itself the moment you come back upstairs.

Keeps counting Counts, par levels and prep lists keep working with zero connection.
Keeps costing Recipe costs stay editable when you're nowhere near a router.
Keeps the notes Handoff notes written in the walk-in still reach the next shift.
Syncs quietly Back on the floor, everything catches up on its own.
No signal · still counting A cook counting shelves in a walk-in cooler with a phone in hand
Walk-in, no bars, still counting

Preorder

Have it on release day.

Hatchline Labs is built for independent restaurant owners and it's coming to the App Store. Preorder now and it's on your phone the day it ships.

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App Store preorders · Hatchline Labs, Asheville, North Carolina

What you get

  • Smart prep lists that rebuild themselves from what sold
  • Par-level alerts before the rush, not during it
  • Voice add for hands that are already full
  • Shift handoff notes in one screen
  • Recipe costing per plate, down to the penny
  • Offline mode for walk-ins, basements and dead zones