Cafe startup planning for Australian cafe founders. Shape your menu around your cafe, cost every dish to the cent, and push it to Square before you open, so you start trading knowing the numbers work.
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HospoSure focuses on the numbers that decide whether a cafe makes it: your financial planning and your menu costing. Cafe recipe costing, financial modelling, cash flow projections and bank-ready reports, with every dish priced for profit and ready to export to Square. We make those numbers simple to get right, well before opening day.
Over 200 chef-tested cafe recipe templates from our test kitchen library, proven in working cafes. You don't write a recipe or run a single calculation. Each pre-costed cafe recipe ships with the prep, the plating and the costs done, so the 21-year-old on the pass can turn it out the same way every shift.
Open any dish and you get a full specification, not a recipe scribble. It covers recipe and preparation method, portion sizes, hold times, plating reference images, service instructions for the pass, and allergen information.
It all comes ready to use, structured so your team can recreate the dish consistently, plate it the same way each service, and push it live to your Square menu. Select the dish, load it into your system, and hand the card to the team for prep and service.
These are the numbers that close cafes, and none of it has to apply to yours. Drop in your overheads, labour and opening costs, and HospoSure turns each hard truth into a plan you can read, so you know it works before you sign the lease.
of Australian food businesses closed in the last year, the highest failure rate of any industry.
CreditorWatch Business Risk Index, 2025
is the food cost and cafe COGS range to control, with the current net margin for cafes around 3 to 5%. ATO benchmarks set the industry range.
ATO benchmarks, industry data, 2025
the likely age of the cook running your kitchen, often with no formal training. The menu has to work for them.
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Your overheads, labour and opening costs become cash flow, food cost and break-even, so you know the numbers work before you sign the lease, not after.
Every dish is costed live as you build, so you hold your food cost in the 25 to 35% range that keeps a cafe alive, from day one.
Chef-built recipes, shaped to your cafe and pre-costed, ship with the prep and plating done, so the 21-year-old on the pass turns out the same plate every shift.
The HospoSure dashboard pulls revenue, food cost, labour and gross profit into a single live view, updated from your Square sales. See where the money is, spot what is leaking, and ask Jodie what to do next, with every number tied back to the plan you opened on. Download a bank-ready cash flow report whenever you need one, for a lender, a landlord or your own records.
Accredited hospitality coaching, built into your cafe startup planning. Real cafe consultants log in, check your numbers and sign you off when you're ready to open. The pre-opening work that used to cost $15,000 to $20,000 is included.
A real cafe consultant walks through your overheads, your menu and your numbers. No guesswork.
Sense-checks before you commit, so you see the leaks first. You don't open until the numbers stack up, with human sign-off on the menu and the plan.
The in-platform helper answers the questions you'd otherwise save for a $400 an hour consultant. Snap a photo of an old menu and she reads it straight in.
Ops team at hosposure have been amazing. Couldn’t recommend them enough. The ease with which they’ve made the whole process of opening our cafe has been top notch.
Stephen Chapman
AU · 1 June 2026
Hosposure's price has the balance of value and affordability. With Hosposure, I can list and access my overheads and costing for my cafe with ease and clarity. Hosposure can also integrate with the current POS to make data import quick as well.
Khanh Tran
AU · 24 May 2025
HospoSure has given me the clarity and confidence I needed to get started with my business. Super easy to use and honestly a game changer for me. It’s helped me understand my costs better and price my menu properly, highly recommended
Yass K
AU · 23 May 2025
“Tim’s review really helped my café improve significantly. His insights were thoughtful and constructive, and they motivated us to make meaningful changes. We’re seeing great results!”
Pheng kuoch
AU · 22 May 2025
I learnt more about cafe business planning and the numbers involved in one day then I have in months searching online, great experience, loved it.
Fraser Ihaka
NZ · 29 June 2024
Hosposure really help me calculate just how much I was using in over heads. With that I was able to lower my running costs and use that money in other key areas to gain more growth.
Mark Flett
AU · 24 June 2024
One path, not a menu of plans. The demo is free to explore, the one-time $499 unlocks the platform to build your plan, then $39 a month keeps you live once you open. No book-a-demo gate, no hidden fees, cancel any time. Prices include GST where it applies.
The free demo is a look around the platform. The one-time $499 unlocks it, so you can model your numbers, cost your menu and get ready to open. Then it's $39 a month to stay live.
We built the tool we wished we'd had. Decades across hospitality between us, from the cafe floor to international operations. Now we're putting that experience into software, so any cafe founder can get to the same numbers without paying for a consultant.
Michelin trained chef. Opened and scaled cafes, multiple sites, 2,000+ menus built. Trusted by some of the biggest hospo portfolios in the country.
25+ years in hospitality technology, from hotel IT foundations to cloud-native development and AWS. Leads platform architecture and the Square integration that keeps every cafe's data dependable.
20+ years across international venues in five countries. Leads onboarding and gets every cafe's Square POS running from day one.
HospoSure's AI helper, trained on what cafe founders actually need. She costs your dishes, explains your gross profit, and points you to the right next step, with the expertise of a consultant on call any time of day.
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