4.3.2026
Square has announced the global launch of Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan, an integration offering AI-driven ingredient and recipe management directly within the Square platform. By unifying front-of-house sales with back-of-house purchasing and food cost intelligence, the innovative solution provides restaurants with real-time visibility into ingredient usage across locations. Sellers are further equipped with automated purchasing tools to help track inventory levels, optimize pricing, and make smarter ordering decisions.
“Restaurants shouldn’t have to guess when managing one of their most important and controllable expenses,” said Morgan Kuntze, Global Partnerships Lead at Block. “Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan solves this by bringing forecasting and ingredient-level intelligence directly into the Square platform. Sellers can now confidently translate these insights into tangible improvements: streamlining recipe management, batch prepping, and updating menus. By eliminating the friction of juggling multiple systems and contracts, we’re enabling restaurants to operate smarter in a single destination.”
Turning Ingredient Data Into Smarter Menu Decisions
Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan enables operators to automate purchase orders, manage vendors and suppliers, and scan invoices, all while monitoring waste and identifying loss trends before they impact margins.
“With six locations, juggling ingredient inventory used to eat up hours on spreadsheets, manual counts, bulk-to-store conversions, and never knowing when a shop might run out mid-service,” said Walt Alexander, Managing Member of Pine State Biscuits. “With Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan, our inventory across all stores is finally visible and accurate in real time. Reordering is easy, waste is way down, and our team can spend their time on biscuits, not busywork.”
Rather than reacting after costs rise, sellers now gain real-time visibility into exactly how ingredient price changes will impact margin at the item level. Restaurants operators can:
- Forecast ingredient needs based on historical and live demand
- Adjust par levels to avoid waste and stockouts
- Identify unusual cost increases or margin erosion early
- Model ingredient substitutions to protect profitability
- Evaluate supplier price fluctuations before they impact the bottom line
Built for Growing Restaurants Looking to Optimize Costs
Building on their decade-long history as partners, MarketMan and Square are committed to creating a deeper, more unified experience for Square sellers. Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan includes:
- Single sign-on (SSO): Log in using Square credentials
- Unified Square billing: Inventory management included in one Square bill
- Centralized support: A streamlined experience from demo to ongoing service
- Seamless POS integration: Automatic syncing of sales data to maintain accurate inventory, recipes, and reporting
Strengthening Square’s Open, Connected Ecosystem
Today, 71% of enterprise sellers use at least one Square partner solution. As Square expands its partner ecosystem, the company continues to deliver connected tools that eliminate operational silos and help sellers confidently scale. Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan reflects this approach, extending Square’s intelligent platform with deeply integrated back-of-house automation. Whether sellers rely on Square-built tools or preferred ecosystem integrations, Square keeps their operations unified, flexible, and scalable.
