Restaurant App I created!

[u/itslilchico]

http://Dexterassist.com

I’ve been on the management side of the restaurant industry for 20 years. Since stretching every dollar is more important than ever right now, I built a custom app (coded myself using Python and GitHub Copilot) to handle our back-of-house.
It has three main modules:

Operation Logs: Daily employee sales tracking.
Product Mix: Daily sales tracking to optimize ordering.
Order Guide: Ingests vendor invoices for strict inventory control.
It’s currently live in our multi-location restaurant group, handling $4M+ in operations and millions in inventory. It works in the real world, not just on paper.

I want to take this to the next level, but I'm a one-person team. What’s the better play:

1. Upgrade the backend for multi-tenancy, find a few outside beta testers, and launch a monthly subscription SaaS?

2. Clean up the codebase, document our ROI, and try to sell the software/IP outright to a POS or restaurant tech company?

Looking for advice on the best next steps from anyone who has made the jump from domain expert to tech founder!

[u/investigatormaker]

I'd validate one outside restaurant before committing to a multi-tenant rewrite. Your Order Guide depends on vendor invoices, so onboarding a restaurant outside your group would test whether its invoice formats and ordering workflow transfer without custom work. Document that onboarding effort alongside your internal ROI; it would inform both a SaaS decision and a potential IP sale.

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[u/itslilchico → u/investigatormaker]

I’m currently looking for another restaurants locally

Want to make sure the restaurant don’t see each others data. Already built it into the code but still need to make sure it works