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The kitchen app for your line

The app your line wants — and the only one wired to your food cost.

Lowboy puts the daily work in your crew's pocket — prep, line checks, counts, the recipe book, capture. Cooks see the work and never the dollars — but every tap still feeds your food cost, inventory and inspection. One flat price for the whole crew, not per cook.

No cost shown on the line One flat price, whole crew Nothing to set up for cooks
9:41Line · Tuesday
Your station today
Sauté · AM prep
✓Butcher & portion chicken
✓Batch marinara — 2×
Prep mise — dinner service
Line check · before service
Count walk-in · proteins
No prices here — just the work.

What the line cook sees. You set it from Team View on the web.

How it works

The line cook's day, start to finish.

Watch it run — or tap a step. Exactly what your crew sees and taps, no dollars anywhere, every step flowing back to you.

TEAM VIEWSauté · Tue
Build the day
Opening checklisttemps + stationevery shift
Prep listsized from parsdaily
Walk-in tempcoil & fanweekly
9:41Line · Tuesday
Today · 2 of 7 done
Opening checklist5 items · tempsStart
Prep — 3 itemstick as you goPrep
Walk-in temp · 38°Flogged
OPENING CHECKLIST5 of 5
Line check
Walk-in≤ 41°F38°F
Line fridge≤ 41°F39°F
Hot hold≥ 135°F142°F
SNAPreading…
Snap the invoice
lining up the page…
Produce invoicehigh confidenceread
Sent to Ana to confirm✓ in the manager's queue
TODAY'S PREP3 · 1 done
Prep as you go
Marinaratarget 2 qt · from parsDone
Caesar dressingtarget 3 qt✓ Done
Diced oniontarget 6 lbDone
COOKBOOKno cost
Marinara · yields 2 qt
SCALE1×2×4×
Crushed tomato2 qt
Garlic, minced3 tbsp
Olive oil¼ cup

▸ Plays on its own · tap any step to jump

◍ The one rule that makes it work

No cost, ever, on the crew.

This is the line that separates Lowboy from a generic checklist app. Food cost, margins, COGS, invoice prices — none of it is on the line app. The crew sees tasks, temps, counts and recipes; the dollars live in the back office with you. A cook can snap an invoice without ever seeing what's on it, and the price only appears after a manager approves it. That means you can hand the app to the whole team without handing them your margins.

  • Cooks see the work, not the numbers. Prep, checks, counts, recipes — never a dollar sign.
  • Capture is safe either way. Anything that touches cost is queued for your approval before it hits the numbers.
  • Everything stays stamped to who sent it, so the day is traceable without anyone policing it.
  • Every tap still feeds the brain. A check, a snap, a count — each updates your food cost, inventory or inspection automatically. A checklist app connects to nothing; this runs your kitchen.
  • One flat price, the whole crew. $149/mo for everyone, line cooks to GM — never per-seat, so inviting the team never costs more.
The manager's half

You build the day once; the crew just opens it.

In Team View on the web you drag each station's routine onto the day and set how often it runs — once. From there Lowboy surfaces each cook's “today” automatically, and everything they send flows back to your back office stamped and traceable. The crew never sets anything up.

FAQ

Common questions

Do line cooks see food cost or margins? +
No. The line-cook app shows the work — prep lists, line checks, counts, recipes and capture — and never shows cost, margin or COGS. Every dollar stays in the back-office manager app. You can hand the app to the whole team without exposing your numbers.
Is there a per-seat fee for the crew? +
No. Lowboy is one flat price for the whole crew — line cooks to GM — at $149/mo or $1,490/yr. There is no per-user or per-seat charge, so inviting more of your team never costs more.
What devices does it run on? +
It's a web app that runs on any phone or tablet the crew already has — iOS or Android — plus a shared kitchen tablet if you'd rather one device on the line. Nothing to install from a store.

Give your line the app — keep the numbers yours.

Run the free audit on your real invoices and counts to see Lowboy on your kitchen. Then hand the app to the whole crew — one flat price, no per-seat fees, no cost ever on the line.

Get your free audit →
~3 minutes · no account required