Discover the best alternative toLightspeed Resto

How does Melba compare with Lightspeed Resto? Lightspeed is a strong POS, but is it the right home for recipe engineering and food cost? Learn why Melba complements or replaces the Lightspeed back-office stack.

What is Lightspeed Resto?

Lightspeed Resto is a cloud POS focused on table service, quick service and bar operations. The platform also ships inventory, basic recipe costing and reporting modules, but the depth on the kitchen ERP side stays narrow.

  • Cloud POS for table and quick service
  • Basic inventory and stock counts
  • Reservation and floor management
  • Light reporting on food cost and labor cost
Reason 1

A kitchen ERP that plugs into Lightspeed, not against it

Main benefits
Melba does not compete with Lightspeed at the cash drawer. The two integrate: sales lines flow from Lightspeed POS into Melba, where recipes, food cost and stock movements live. The POS keeps doing what it does best while Melba runs the kitchen ERP.
The integration handles modifiers, deposits, voids and refunds out of the box, so a manager working in Melba sees a clean theoretical vs actual food cost without manual reconciliation between the two systems.
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Reason 2

Recipe engineering Lightspeed cannot do alone

Main benefits
Lightspeed handles ingredient-level costing on a single recipe but does not model sub-recipes, weight loss, cooking yield or per-product unit conversion. Melba covers each of these natively, so a true production kitchen can stop maintaining shadow spreadsheets.
Spec sheets in Melba carry photos, video, allergens and HACCP critical points. A central kitchen can publish standardised recipes to every site and prove they are followed.
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Reason 3

Open API for finance, BI and supplier integrations

Main benefits
Melba publishes a fully documented public API, free of charge for every paying customer. A finance team can stream sales, food cost and stock movements into a warehouse the day after go-live, without negotiating a partner-tier contract.
Native connectors with Lightspeed, Toast, Square and Tiller make rollouts predictable. Supplier portals and accounting systems also tap into the same API.
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General

Inventory and supplier orders

RECIPES & SALES

HYGIENE & TRACEABILITY - HACCP

Lightspeed and Melba are complementary. Read the specifics of Lightspeed Resto and decide on the right back-office layer.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does Melba replace Lightspeed Resto?

No. Melba integrates with Lightspeed POS and adds the kitchen ERP layer: deep recipes, food cost, central kitchen production and HACCP.

What makes Melba different from the Lightspeed back-office?

Sub-recipes at unlimited depth, rich spec sheets with images, HACCP temperature logs and a free public API. The Lightspeed back-office stays light on each of these.

Can I trial Melba before subscribing?

Have you ever bought something without trying it first? That is why a free 7-day trial is open to every team.

Benefits

The Benefits Don't End There...

Security

Your data remains your exclusive property. It is protected and you set the level of access that each member of your team can have.

Accessibility

Our users praise our ergonomic design for its simplicity and light touch. 100% accessible through mobile !

Flexibility

Melba adapts to the way your business works, not the other way around. The kitchen is your business, the technology is ours!

Support

We will support you from day 1 and remain available to assist you at any time. You will never feel lost.

User rights

Easily invite your colleagues by email. They will receive individual access permissions which you can configure and revoke.

Multiple sites

Connect multiple point of sales of productions sites to a single interface and leverage standardized data and operations across your whole business.

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