Born from a real restaurant
BasilBook started at Beef & Basil— our own restaurant. We needed accounting software that understood food operations, but the options were either too generic or too expensive. QuickBooks alone cost over $500 a year, and it still couldn't track recipes, waste, or daily reconciliation the way a restaurant needs.
So we built what we needed. We named it BasilBook— after the basil in our restaurant's name and the book that keeps it all together. Today it's the platform we use every day, and we're making it available to every restaurant that refuses to overpay for software that doesn't fit. Available on Web, iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
What we believe
Operational first
Users interact with daily workflows — recording purchases, importing sales, counting stock. The accounting happens automatically underneath.
Make losses visible
Restaurants lose profit through recipe inaccuracies, uncontrolled waste, stock leakage, and delayed receivables. BasilBook makes all of that measurable.
Built for restaurants
This is not a generic bookkeeping tool. Every feature is designed around how food businesses actually work — purchasing, recipes, POS, waste, reconciliation.
The problem we lived
Running Beef & Basil, we used a POS for sales, spreadsheets for stock and recipes, manual cash tracking, and separate payroll calculations. Accounting was always done later. The tools didn't talk to each other, and the blind spots were enormous.
We looked at QuickBooks, Xero, and other platforms. QuickBooks cost over $500 a year — and still couldn't handle recipe costing, waste tracking, stock counts, or daily cash reconciliation. We were paying premium prices for generic software and filling the gaps with spreadsheets anyway.
That's when we decided to build exactly what a restaurant needs: one system where purchasing, inventory, recipes, sales, waste, payroll, receivables, and reconciliation all feed into accurate, automatically generated financial reports.
We named it BasilBook — after the basil in Beef & Basiland the accounting book that ties everything together. It's what we wish existed when we started. Now it does, and it costs a fraction of what we were paying before.