custom software for restaurant operations
Recipe cards, staff training, line checks, prep lists, cleaning lists, email templates, and more. Customized into one app for your restaurant.
Start with one tool. No long-term lock-in.
Burgers · Grill
Burgers · Plancha
Smash Burger
- Smash the ball on the flat top. Salt and pepper.
- 2 min, flip, cheese on, 30 sec.
- Mayo, patty, diced onion, top bun.
- Aplasta la bola en la plancha. Sal y pimienta.
- 2 min, voltea, agrega el queso, 30 seg.
- Mayonesa, carne, cebolla picada, pan de arriba.
Recipe cards
Recipe cards, staff training, line checks, prep lists, cleaning lists, email templates, and more.
Built around how your restaurant already runs, used by the front of house, back of house, and everything in between.
Your app. Your brand. One team.
We build the app your staff uses and the brand your guests see. Websites, menus, branding, photography, video, and social content, all handled by the same team that already knows your restaurant.
When your menu changes, we can update the recipe cards, staff training, printed menus, website, and launch content together. You don’t have to explain the same change to five different people.
Recipe cards your line will actually use.
Photos, specs, portions, plating, and allergens on a tablet at every station. In English and Spanish. Change a recipe once and every location has it.
- Photo of every plate
- English and Spanish in one tap
- Change it once, every store has it
Cleaning lists with proof that it actually got done.
Daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning by station, with a name, a time, and a photo on every sign-off. Managers see what was missed before it becomes a problem.
- Each station sees only its own list
- Photo proof on every sign-off
- Missed tasks flagged by morning
Your words. Not a manager freestyling at midnight.
You write the templates for guest emails and owner recaps. Managers fill them in. No rambling nightly notes, no rogue guest replies.
- You write the guest and owner templates
- Managers fill them in, not freestyle
- No rogue emails, no rambling recaps
While we’re at it
The same team. Every part of your restaurant’s brand.
Integrations
The apps you have weren’t made for your restaurant. This one is.
Most restaurant software tries to fit every concept. We build around how your restaurant already runs: front of house, back of house, and everything in between, so your team actually uses it.
Generic restaurant apps
- Built for every restaurant, so it fits none of them exactly
- You change how you work to match the software
- Five apps, five logins, nothing talks to each other
- Generic checklists you have to rewrite anyway
- Your team ignores it after the first month
Built by TRC Custom
- Built around your menu, your stations, and your stores
- The software matches how your best managers already work
- One app for your checklists, logs, training, and prep
- Your recipes, your checklists, your words, in English and Spanish
- Short, specific screens your team actually opens
Built from restaurant experience, not a marketing agency.
Brad brings two decades working every position inside restaurants, deep in recipe cards, allergy guides, menus, and training. What we build also integrates with Toast, DoorDash, SpotOn, Restaurant 365, and more.
These are the tools we wished we had back when we were printing every recipe card, checklist, and temp log by hand.
Brad Nichols · Founder, The Restaurant Creatives
Common questions
What can we upload to the app?
Photos, recipes, checklists, training docs, menus, logos, and the rest of what your team already works from. If it runs the restaurant today, we can usually get it into the build.
Can we move our group chats to the app?
Yes. Shift notes, handoffs, store updates, and the all-caps threads that used to live in group text can move into the app, with names, timestamps, and a record you can actually find later.
Do the recipe cards come in Spanish?
Yes. Plus all of the content we create can be translated into as many languages as you want, with a quick click of a switch.
Does the app work on iPhones and Androids?
Yes. Phones, tablets, and the office computer. Your team uses whatever they already have in their pocket or on the line.
Do you have to download it from the App Store?
No. Your team signs in from a private link and saves the app to their home screen with your logo, on iPhone and Android. No waiting on App Store approval. If you want a listing in the App Store or Google Play under your name, we can add one.
Can we connect our current systems to the app?
Yes. Builds can integrate with the systems you already run, including Toast, DoorDash, SpotOn, Restaurant 365, and more, when that connection helps the tool do its job.
How do we make updates?
You change a recipe, checklist, or par once and every location gets it. Managers update content from the app. Bigger feature work goes through us, so the product stays yours without becoming a DIY project.
What if we have an issue with the app?
You talk to us. Real support from the people who built it, not a ticket queue. We fix what breaks and help your managers get the team back on track fast.
Is the data secure?
Yes. Access is limited to your team, hosted on modern cloud infrastructure, and built so recipes, checklists, and store notes stay inside your restaurant group, not floating in a shared group text.
- 01 / Bring what you have
Your materials. Your workflow.
Show us what your team uses today and what you want to improve. Recipes, checklists, menus, or an existing website are a useful starting point.
- 02 / Agree on the work
One focused deliverable.
We agree on what we’re making, what’s included, and what we need from you. You have a clear scope before work starts.
- 03 / Review and use it
Made for your actual day.
You review the work in context. We refine it together, then hand over the agreed files or tools and show you how to use them.
Let’s talk.
Tell us what your restaurant needs. We will come back with a plan and a clear next step.
- Start with one tool. No long-term lock-in
- Built around how your restaurant already runs
- English, Spanish, and more, in one tap.