Chef plating a dish in a professional kitchen
The operating system for food businesses

Sell meals. Fill seats. Watch revenue run itself.

Subscriptions that renew on time. Meal passes paid before you cook. Kitchens, routes, and renewals on autopilot — run by OpSy, your AI operations manager.

30 minutes, your numbers, no slides · Works with or without Shopify · Built for US & Canada

Your dashboard · live

Today, 8:04 AM

MRR this month

$8,420

+12% vs last month

Collected up front

$4,320

32 passes sold this week

Renewals on time

100%

0 double-charges, 0 missed

OpSy

“Tomorrow's cook list is ready — 2 skips already applied.”

The math that makes operators switch

$2,000/mo

in scattered SaaS fees consolidated into one platform

10+ hrs

per week of manual data entry, back in your kitchen

20%

of revenue typically lost to churn — recoverable with self-serve & win-backs

8 → 1

disconnected tools replaced by one system of record

Built by a founder who ran a $120K/month meal operation — and felt every one of these numbers.

Tonight, in every food business

The order is the easy part. Then the chaos starts.

A meal order isn't an order — it's a recurring delivery schedule with skip days, pauses, add-ons, and per-day addresses. No checkout models that. So the margin leaks out, one duct-taped tool at a time:

Overhead view of a busy kitchen prep counter

11:04 PM · WhatsApp

“hey can u skip tmrw thx”

Every one of these moments costs money. PlateOS was built to make them stop.

One system of record from checkout to doorstep — on Shopify or fully standalone. Here's how the money story changes:

01

Subscriptions

Revenue that renews itself.

A one-time customer buys lunch. A subscriber buys every week — worth many times more over a year. PlateOS models the whole schedule (skips, pauses, add-ons, per-day addresses) and bills each renewal exactly once, exactly on time.

  • Predictable MRR you can plan a kitchen around

    Weekly and monthly plans with delivery-day scheduling and cutoffs.

  • Churn caught before it happens

    Skip-rate spikes trigger early warnings; pause offers go out before cancellations do.

  • Zero-ticket self-serve

    Customers skip, pause, and swap themselves — your support inbox goes quiet.

Meal prep containers with fresh healthy food

Weekly Veg Plan

Renews Fri Jun 21 · $129 billed

This month

186 active subscribers

Warm restaurant interior with wooden tables
MEAL PASS10-meal pass
7/ 10 credits

Collected this morning

+$1,350

before a single meal was cooked

02

Meal passes

Get paid before you cook.

Sell 5, 10, or 20-meal passes online or at the counter. The cash lands today; the customer comes back ten more times. Redemption is just a phone number — no app, no QR code, no friction.

  • Cash flow, front-loaded

    Prepaid revenue smooths slow weeks and funds ingredients before service.

  • Loyalty without a program

    Every unredeemed credit is a guaranteed next visit — and higher attach-rate spend when they come.

  • Ledger-audited to the cent

    Every credit, redemption, refund, and comp logged. Balances always reconcile.

Staff Redeem Terminal

(555) 014-2288 → Maya R. · 1 credit redeemed

Done in 10s
CHAPTER 03 · OPSY AI

The operations manager who never clocks out.

Every hour OpSy takes off your plate goes straight back to margin. Talk to your whole operation in plain English — it proposes, you approve, it executes. Nothing moves without you.

  • Your morning briefing, before coffee

    Cook counts, route status, renewals due, payment retries — and anything that needs a decision.

  • Plain English in, precise operations out

    “Swap dal for paneer in all Friday packages.” 34 packages found, impact shown, one click to approve.

  • The busywork, gone

    Bulk imports, prorated upgrades, multi-package overrides — the work that used to eat your evenings.

  • Guardrails, always

    Every write is a dry-run proposal with an audit trail. OpSy never touches data without your approval.

OpSy Online

Pause Rahul's plan till the 24th, he's travelling

M

Found Rahul S. (Weekly Veg Plan). Pausing Jun 10–24 preserves his 9 remaining meals and shifts his end date to Jul 8. Friday's cook list drops by one; Route A goes to 17 stops.

Pause subscription · Jun 10–24

Approve

Done — paused, rescheduled, cook list updated.

04

Kitchen & delivery

Every saved hour is margin.

The cook list computes itself — exact per-dish counts for any date, with skips, swaps, and add-ons already applied. Labels print sorted by route. Routes optimize themselves. Drivers navigate from a magic link. You stop paying for chaos.

  • No more evening tally

    Date-specific cook lists with one-day swaps across packages — without touching plan templates.

  • Routes that plan themselves

    AI-optimized multi-stop routes, live tracking links, photo proof of delivery.

  • Waste down, accuracy up

    One missed skip is wasted food. PlateOS applies every change to the list, automatically.

Hands preparing fresh vegetables in a kitchen

Cook list · Friday

Skips applied
Butter Chicken 12oz42
Paneer Sabzi 12oz34
Jeera Rice 8oz64

Route A

18 stops · In transit

See your kitchen's numbers in a live demo.

Bring your menu and your order volume. In 30 minutes we'll show you your subscriptions, your cook list, and your routes running on PlateOS — your data, no slides.

The whole platform

Generic subscription apps stop at “rebill the card.”

PlateOS understands meals — plans, passes, kitchens, routes, and renewals. That depth is the product.

Subscription engine

The richest meal-subscription model anywhere: delivery days, skip dates, pauses that preserve meals, add-ons, and per-day addresses.

  • Skip / pause / swap with safety guards
  • Add-on & master-package fitting
  • Meals-remaining math done right

Prepaid meal passes

Sell 5, 10, or 20-meal passes that customers redeem with a phone number at the counter — prepaid cash flow with built-in loyalty.

  • Staff redeem terminal on any device
  • Ledger-audited credits, refunds & comps
  • Balance notifications for customers

Kitchen cockpit

The cook list your kitchen actually follows — exact counts for any date, with overrides, add-ons, and skips already applied.

  • One-day item swaps across packages
  • Size-aware item library (8/12/16oz)
  • Labels & kitchen sheets, auto-generated

Delivery & routing

Zones, vehicle-route optimization, driver magic links, live customer tracking, and photo proof of delivery.

  • AI-optimized multi-stop routes
  • No driver app to install
  • Live tracking links for customers

Renewals & billing

One orchestrator bills each plan exactly once, on time — with dunning, taxes by jurisdiction, and churn-prevention emails built in.

  • Never double-charge, never miss
  • Failed-payment recovery (dunning)
  • GST/HST & tax handled per address

Portal & storefront

A branded storefront to sell plans and a self-serve portal where customers skip, pause, upgrade, and track — no tickets.

  • No-code portal builder & theming
  • Prorated upgrades
  • Embeds in Shopify customer accounts

Messaging & support

SMS, WhatsApp, and email in one inbox — customers text “skip” and it just works, with AI-drafted replies on support tickets.

  • Intent-parsing customer commands
  • AI-drafted support replies
  • Templated lifecycle notifications

Analytics

Revenue, customers, skip trends, and daily-change metrics in one dashboard — with OpSy summarizing what changed and why.

  • Revenue & churn dashboards
  • Skip/pause trends as early warnings
  • CSV export for everything

Commerce, your way

Deep Shopify integration when you want it — orders, products, and billing sync natively. Fully standalone when you don’t.

  • Built-in checkout & billing
  • Native Shopify order sync & mapping
  • Multi-brand, multi-store ready

Built in a real kitchen, not a boardroom

“I ran a meal business doing $120K a month. The spreadsheets, the 11 PM skip texts, the renewal I billed twice — I lived all of it. Every feature in PlateOS exists because something in my kitchen broke without it.”

Founder, PlateOS

Previously ran TPFU Bitebox — a $120K/month subscription meal operation

Pricing

Process your first $10,000 with $0 PlateOS software fees.

Launch your website, menu, Meal Passes, subscriptions, catering, and direct checkout without a monthly PlateOS software bill. Standard card-processing fees apply. After $10,000 in lifetime sales processed through PlateOS, Business is $199 per month. Direct PlateOS storefront orders have 0% PlateOS commission. Signed YOFO marketplace orders use 10% for pickup, 20% for delivery, or 5% for orders over CA$500.

The $10,000 figure is a pricing milestone, not an earnings promise or revenue guarantee.

Launch

Start here

The complete PlateOS platform — $0/month in software fees while you process your first $10,000 through the platform.

$0/mo

Until $10,000 in lifetime sales processed through PlateOS

  • The complete platform — no feature limits, no caps
  • Unlimited orders, customers, meal plans & subscriptions
  • Customer Portal & cinematic storefront
  • Meal Pass, Catering, Restaurant, Meal Prep & Tiffin
  • Direct PlateOS storefront orders have 0% PlateOS commission — standard Stripe card-processing fees apply
  • Signed YOFO marketplace orders: 10% pickup, 20% delivery, or 5% over CA$500
  • Analytics, reporting & OpSy AI (with AI credits)
  • No countdown clock — reach the milestone at your own pace

Process your first $10,000 with $0 PlateOS software fees

Most popular

Business

After the $10,000 milestone

The same complete platform, after PlateOS has demonstrated measurable value.

$199/mo

Begins after $10,000 in lifetime sales processed through PlateOS

  • Everything in Launch — nothing is taken away
  • Direct PlateOS storefront orders have 0% PlateOS commission — standard Stripe card-processing fees apply
  • Signed YOFO marketplace orders: 10% pickup, 20% delivery, or 5% over CA$500
  • Add operational modules (below)
  • Priority support
  • Clear advance reminders before Business billing ever begins

Direct storefront: 0% PlateOS commission. YOFO marketplace rates are separate.

Modules

Add operational power as you scale

Available on Business. Turn on only what you need.

Delivery Manager

$29/driver / mo

Drivers, routing, dispatch, labels, driver app, live tracking — includes Pickup.

Smart Inventory

$99/mo

AI inventory tracking, recipe-based deduction, purchasing & forecasting.

AI Customer Support

$49/mo

Website + portal AI chat, subscription self-service, FAQ & order automation.

Additional Stores

$49/store / mo

Each additional location beyond the one included in your plan.

AI Credits — OpSy and AI features run on usage-based credits. Buy bundles of 100, 500, or 1,000 credits and only pay for what you use.

Not sure which plan fits? Book a 30-minute demo and we'll walk your numbers with you.

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