Hospitality: Restaurants
Financial management for restaurant groups.
Ramp gives every general manager a card with per-location controls, automates your food vendor bill stack, and keeps spend organized for accounting.
1,500+ restaurants trust Ramp
Onboard a new GM in minutes.
Issue a new GM their card and permissions the same day, no finance training required.
Kill the bill stack.
Forward distributor invoices and Ramp captures, codes, and pays them — no manual entry.
Track spend by unit, live.
Spot a food cost overrun by location the day it happens, not at month end.
Your card spend and your books, finally in sync.
Cards, AP, and accounting on one platform, so what your GMs swipe on the floor and what your controller sees at close are the same number.
Per-location cards with real guardrails.
Issue every general manager a card with spending limits, approved vendor locks, and instant freeze. Uncapped cashback on every purchase.
Corporate Cards
Handle receipts at point of purchase.
GMs snap a photo and send it. You stop chasing paper the week close is due.
Expense ManagementForward the invoice. Skip the entry.
Email a distributor PDF and Ramp pulls line items, routes approval, and schedules payment. No more Friday bill stack.
Bill PayKeep accounting clean from day one.
Every transaction codes to the right location and cost center, so finance has clean, consistent spend data for the accounting process.
Accounting
Ramp has given us real-time visibility into card spending and reimbursements, automated much of our reconciliation work to speed up the monthly close, and made expense submission simpler and faster for employees.
Nicole DiMaria
Controller, Just Salad
By integrating with our internal system and automating documentation and policy requirements, we've been able to bring efficiency to back-end processes while increasing our controls on spend.
Liz Casey
Assistant Controller, ezCater
We run multiple restaurant concepts and needed corporate cards that could keep up with the pace of our kitchens without burdening our team with expense reporting headaches. Ramp did that, and the sync with Restaurant365 made the accounting side a lot cleaner.
Andrew Levin
VP of Finance, SoDel Concepts
Running a multi-concept restaurant group means our finance team is pulled in a dozen directions at once. Since we brought Ramp in, we've reclaimed over 140 hours in the last three months. 48 of them came from month-end close alone. That's time we can spend running the business, not chasing receipts and reconciling cards.
Wesley Li
Founder, Happy Holdings Group
Ramp has helped promote a culture of awareness and accountability, there's no swipe your card and forget about it, people are more attuned to why and how they are spending.
Derek Arnette
Controller, Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group
FAQs
A corporate card built for restaurant groups should give finance teams per-location visibility and controls, not just a statement at month end. Ramp issues cards to each GM with custom spending limits, approved vendor categories, and real-time alerts so unauthorized purchases are caught before they hit the P&L.
Each GM or shift manager gets a physical or virtual card tied to their location's cost center. Spend limits and category restrictions are set at the card level, so a GM can buy approved supplies but can't charge personal purchases. Every swipe is visible in the dashboard the moment it posts.
Swipe their card and text a photo of the receipt. That's it. Limits, category locks, and coding happen automatically, so GMs stay on the floor and finance gets clean data without chasing anyone.
Most restaurant groups get hundreds of invoices monthly from broadline distributors, produce vendors, and linen services, many as paper or PDF. Ramp's Bill Pay captures invoices by email, extracts line items, routes them for approval, and schedules ACH payments, cutting out the manual entry that slows down month-end close.
Yes. Ramp is built for multi-unit operators. Issue cards, set per-location limits, track food and supply spend by unit, and review AP from a single dashboard. Whether you run 3 locations or 75, each unit gets its own spend controls and reporting without a separate login, and your director of operations sees every location in one view.
Ramp works alongside your existing accounting workflow. Your team can start with cards and expense management, then add Bill Pay when it fits your process.
Ramp makes receipt capture easy: your GM takes a photo and sends it by text. Card limits and category locks apply automatically, helping your team stay within policy without adding more work.