Mobile Inventory App
Kitchen Inventory
A mobile inventory and ordering assistant for restaurants that replaces whiteboard-based stock tracking with a shared, role-aware workflow.
- Industry
- Restaurant Operations
- Outcome
- Mobile Inventory App
- Type
- Personal Project
Project Overview
How The Project Came Together.
Kitchen Inventory is a mobile-first operations app designed for restaurants and multi-location food businesses that still manage ordering informally. The product is built around one practical insight: a kitchen team will not adopt a tool that is slower than a whiteboard. The interface is therefore optimized around quick low/out capture, explainable quantity suggestions, manager verification, and role-aware location workflows. This is one of the stronger product-direction projects in the portfolio because it is grounded in a real back-of-house problem, not just a generic app idea. It is also being built with actual mobile distribution in mind through Expo and EAS.
Challenges
What The Project Worked Through.
- Designing a stock-flagging workflow that is genuinely faster than a kitchen whiteboard.
- Supporting BOH and FOH ordering without making the mental model confusing.
- Balancing speed for line staff with enough manager oversight before orders are finalized.
Takeaways
What I Learned From The Build.
- Operational software gets adopted when it respects the pace of the environment it serves.
- Explainable suggestions can build more trust than opaque automation in ordering workflows.
- Mobile-first enterprise-style apps need stronger prioritization because the screen real estate is unforgiving.
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