Cafe Closing Count

Cafe Closing Count is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a cafe or bakery that makes a fixed number of pieces each day and throws away what does not sell. At closing a staff member presses Start today count, types how many pieces of each product were sold and where the rest went, and the app prices the waste. Other losses such as spilt milk go in a second list. A weekly report puts waste next to food sales, and tomorrow bake plan is calculated from what sold on the same weekday.

The problem it removes: Food thrown away is never counted, so its cost stays hidden inside the cost of sales. The croissants are baked to the same number every morning, three are binned every evening, and nobody sees that the seasonal tart loses money every day. A piece that was neither sold nor binned nor given away has simply vanished. This app makes the count a two minute closing habit and shows what the bin costs per week.

What is inside:

• Start today count: one row for every product on your list, with the usual number made, ready to complete
• Each product: made, sold, sold reduced, staff meals, donated, binned and kept for tomorrow, with the pieces left unaccounted for flagged
• Cost of the bin, cost of giveaways and sales value lost, from the cost and price you enter for each product
• Other losses with a reason: dropped, wrong order, expired, prepared too much. The reason Other needs a note
• Weekly report: bin cost plus other losses against the food sales you enter, compared with your own waste target
• Tomorrow bake plan from the average demand on the same weekday over the last eight weeks, plus the buffer you set
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: owners and supervisors of cafes, bakeries, sandwich bars and restaurants with a display case or a daily made batch, who want waste to be counted and priced rather than guessed.

What it is NOT: It does not weigh anything, does not read your till, and does not know how many pieces you sold: you type the sold quantity from your till report. It is not a stock control system and does not track ingredients. It does not give food safety advice, and it does not tell you what is safe to donate or keep. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

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Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (153 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 3101 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed; Firefox: could not be launched. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).