The Open Pantry team, the people behind the wholesale ordering platform for food suppliers and restaurants

About Open Pantry

Open Pantry makes wholesale ordering software for food and beverage suppliers, and ordering, menu-costing and inventory tools for the restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs they supply. We were founded in 2018 to connect restaurants to their wholesale suppliers: even with online ordering around, chefs still didn’t like using it, so we set out to make ordering faster and easier than an email or a call.

Who Open Pantry is for

Suppliers. Food and beverage wholesalers and distributors — butchers and meat, poultry, seafood, smallgoods, bakery, dairy, fruit and vegetables, coffee and tea, beer, wine and liquor, and dry goods. They get their own branded ordering app and online store, and orders flow straight into picking, delivery, invoicing and accounting.

Venues. Restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, quick-service, catering and production kitchens that want to order from every supplier in one place and know what each dish really costs.

Open Pantry is not a marketplace. A supplier’s customers order under the supplier’s own brand and see only that supplier’s catalogue and prices, and we take no percentage of order value. Today 600+ suppliers and 5,000+ venues use Open Pantry.

Our products

Open Pantry for Suppliers

A branded web store and ordering app, with orders arriving by app, web store, rep ordering on behalf and EDI — and on Enterprise, email, SMS and WhatsApp orders read by AI into draft orders. There is a Free plan with no time limit, a Pro plan priced by order volume and a custom Enterprise plan; see supplier pricing.

Free ordering for venues

Unlimited orders across unlimited suppliers, pantry lists, order reminders and standing orders, free for the venue and opened by a supplier invitation.

Menu Profit Manager

Menu costing bought once: AI invoice scanning, recipe import from spreadsheets and photos, live profit per dish and price-spike alerts. A one-time payment for lifetime access, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Restaurant Pro Suite

The monthly plan for venues that want automated inventory and stocktake, ordering back to par levels, POS integration and reporting on sales, cost, waste and variance. Current prices for each country are on restaurant pricing.

Where we operate

Australia is our home market. We also publish localised pricing, currency and tax for New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and Singapore. Our free supplier directory lists more than 6,500 wholesale food and beverage suppliers across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Ireland and Singapore.

How customers use it: M&J Chickens

M&J Chickens use Open Pantry to move ordering out of calls and messages and into one digital workflow — a smoother ordering experience for their customers, and fewer errors and less admin for their team.

“Moving to a digital process has transformed our ordering process which is now faster through our own mobile apps.”

Alex Ortiz, Head of Sales, M&J Chickens

Read the M&J Chickens case study.

Integrations

Suppliers get two-way accounting sync with Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, Sage and Zoho Books, card payments through Stripe, EDI purchase orders set up per trading partner, and ERP integrations on Enterprise. Venues send reviewed supplier invoices to Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB as bills, and Triniteq PowerEPOS connects directly to pull the day’s sales into recipes.

The team

We are an eclectic bunch of specialists, from hospitality veterans to user experience designers and product developers. We come from different walks of life, united by our drive to make Open Pantry the best thing to happen to hospitality.

Where to find independent reviews

Customers review Open Pantry on independent software review sites. Read what they say, good and bad, before you decide:

Company facts

Founded
2018
Company
Open Pantry Technologies Pty Ltd (ABN 13 628 014 273)
Products
Open Pantry for Suppliers, free venue ordering, Menu Profit Manager, Restaurant Pro Suite
Markets
Australia (home market), New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and Singapore

Contact us

Email info@theopenpantry.com, ask on our contact page, or look it up in the Help Centre and FAQ. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.