Built for seasonal kitchens
Saltline learns your restaurant's patterns — weather, events, school schedules, your POS — and generates a precise morning prep list before your crew walks in. Less waste. Fewer 86s. No spreadsheets.
Prep list accuracy
±9%
MAPE — last 14 days
Waste saved this week
$110
↓ 18% vs prior week
What Saltline does
Barcode scan & count
Scan any product UPC to build your inventory catalog. Morning counts take 6 minutes, not 25. Works offline, syncs when you're back on WiFi.
Auto-generated prep lists
A prep list lands in the app every morning based on predicted volume. Updated in real-time as Toast order data comes in throughout the day.
ML trend detection
The model learns your restaurant's patterns over time — which dishes spike on rainy days, what a local festival does to your chowder, how school calendars shift your lunch traffic.
Intra-day Toast forecasts
Live POS data from Toast feeds the model throughout service. If lunch is running 30% over projection, the prep list updates so your 3 PM prep isn't caught short.
Waste accountability
By mapping raw ingredients → prepped items → plates → POS orders, Saltline can tell you how much product left the kitchen versus how much ended up on a ticket.
Weather & event signals
Saltline reads the forecast, local school calendars, and event schedules. A rainy Tuesday in August is not the same as a sunny one — your prep list knows the difference.
Why coastal New England
Seasonal restaurants on the New England coast face a set of pressures that generic software was never designed for. You do three months of revenue in the summer. A cold snap in July, a road closure on 1A, a canceled fireworks show — any of these can tank a Saturday that was supposed to carry the week.
I've spent seven years in kitchens on this coast. Saltline is the tool I wished existed — one that understands that a chowder Friday in September after a lobster festival is nothing like a random September Friday, and preps accordingly.
"Know your line." — how much you can make, how much you need, where the waste is going.
Seasonal revenue swings
Your model is trained on your seasonal rhythm, not a national average. Week 1 of tourist season is weighted differently than week 1 of October.
Event & weather sensitivity
York Days, Hampton Beach concerts, Ogunquit Fest, school vacations, nor'easters — Saltline tracks the signals that move volume on the coast.
Small team, thin margins
No enterprise license. No dedicated IT. Saltline is built to run on a phone or tablet with zero training beyond scanning a barcode.
Off-season continuity
The model doesn't go dark in November. Off-season data is what teaches it why December looks nothing like August — and prices your spring prep accordingly.
Get started free. Your first prep list will be ready the morning after your inventory is counted.
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