# Butters: Cafe & Restaurant Ops — Staff chat, checklists, SOPs > Staff chat, checklists, SOPs (iPhone/iPad app by Wesley Ng.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/butters-cafe-and-restaurant-ops/id6797364776 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Wesley Ng](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881890029) - Category: Business, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 30 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-26 - Data updated: 2026-10-09 ## What is Butters? Butters is a team app for cafés, restaurants and small food and beverage teams. Chat, checklists, announcements and a searchable staff handbook in one place instead of four. TEAM MESSAGING Store channels, group chats and direct messages, with attachments, reactions, replies and read status. Work conversations stop living in someone's personal WhatsApp. TASKS AND CHECKLISTS Daily and weekly checklists by store and by role. Staff can attach a photo or a note as proof, and every completion records who did it and when. Useful the day a health inspector asks. STAFF HANDBOOK Your SOPs, recipes and opening procedures, searchable. Staff can ask a question in plain language and get an answer with the source it came from. ANNOUNCEMENTS Post once to the whole team or to a single store, and see who has read it. SHARED STORE TABLETS Put Butters on a tablet at the counter. It asks who completed each task, so the record still names a person rather than a device. OVERSIGHT WITHOUT MICROMANAGING Weekly summaries by store and by area. Reporting is aggregated, and Butters does not rank or score staff. HOW ACCOUNTS WORK Butters is invite only. Your manager or owner creates your account. There is no public sign-up, so if you have downloaded this without an invite you will not be able to sign in. PRIVACY Butters is a workplace tool. Your employer decides how it is used and what is recorded. Data is stored in Canada. ## Is Butters safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Butters. ## Is Butters legit? Butters: Cafe & Restaurant Ops has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Butters is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-30 NEW Media, links and docs Every photo, link and file sent in a chat, in one place. Open the chat's settings and tap Media, links and docs. Photos are grouped by month, and you can swipe through them full screen. See who reacted Press and hold a reaction under a message to see who added it. Recent people New message shows the people you messaged most recently first. FIXED, FROM YOUR FEEDBACK Pinned chats show once, in the pinned row at the top, with an unread count on each one. Announcements stays pinned. Group chats show their photo at the top of the chat and in the chat list. Swipe a notification banner up to dismiss it. New task opens ready to type the title, and picking a name in New message keeps the keyboard up for the next one. Long task titles wrap instead of running off the screen, and the whole task screen scrolls, so a long title never squeezes the details. A task's notes show in full, and its settings fold away under Details. A past inventory count opens as a card in the middle of the screen. ### v1.3 — 2026-09-23 v1.3 NEW Prep mode A full-screen view of today's prep list, in type big enough to read from across the kitchen. What's left to make sits apart from what's made, and the screen stays awake while you work. A Shift Leads chat for every store Each store has its own Shift Leads chat, with the right people already in it. Task notices for a store can go to that store's chat instead of one room for everyone. Quieter notifications No notification for a chat you already have open. A new message in another chat shows as a small banner inside the app. One inventory count sends one notification, not three. Announcements Must-read announcements sit on the Home board instead of popping up mid-task. Attach files, edit after sending (it's marked Edited), and see who hasn't opened it yet. Sending to the whole team asks first. Fix a day after it ends Correct a shift report note, a task, or last night's count after the day is over. You can submit last night's count even after midnight. Tasks The Store tab shows one day at a time. Lists update as soon as someone else finishes a task. Managers can tick off tasks from the Store tab, and a single wrong photo can be deleted. Shopping list Separate Bought and Ordered buttons, and what's on the way shows right in the count. Poke Tap a colleague's profile to send a quick nudge. FIXED, FROM YOUR FEEDBACK Every screen you type into now stays above the keyboard, including on the iPad. If the camera is off for Butters, tapping the camera tells you how to turn it back on, every time. It used to do nothing. Pinned chats also show in All, with their latest message. Stores are listed A to Z everywhere you pick one. A completion notice appears in the corner instead of covering the screen. The AI recap on Home no longer disappears if a refresh fails. One broken screen no longer takes the whole app down with it. ### v1.2.4 — 2026-09-17 v1.2.4 Messages • Links are tappable now, and open without losing your place in Butters. • Editing a message on a keyboard edits it, instead of posting a second copy. • Butters waits to be asked before answering a message to someone off shift — tap "Ask Butters" when you want an answer. Inventory and tasks • Screens that open from the bottom no longer slide under the clock at the top of your phone. • The notes box at the end of a count stays above the keyboard. • Reacting to a task no longer shows stray text in the row. End-of-day report • Tomorrow's list is the store's work only — no personal to-dos, no announcements. • A task pushed into today and finished today now counts as finished. Minor • Spacing adjustments • Tasks default to "general" After updating you'll see a short note about what changed. ### v1.2.2 — 2026-09-13 v1.2.2 Inventory • Owners, GMs and managers can count an item that isn't due tonight, and correct a night that was missed — pick the day in the history grid and open it. • The list shows what that day asked for, not today's. • "Same as last" is on the phone now, not only the iPad. Tasks • Delete a photo you took by mistake. Owners and GMs can remove anyone's. • Attach a photo you already have, as well as taking one. Owners can switch this off. • Push a task to tomorrow and the same button becomes the undo. • Taking a photo now works the first time. It used to need two. Profiles • Tap a colleague's name to see their phone number, if they've added one. • Write a line about yourself on your profile. Fixes • Logging an invoice on a phone works again — the photo appears after you take it. • On Android, the keyboard no longer pushes the whole screen off the top. • Back from a profile returns you to the chat you came from. • Tap a poster's photo in Announcements to open their profile. • The unread count on a pinned chat is no longer cut off at the top. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-11 v1.2.1 Announcements • The board no longer goes blank once everyone has read a post. Past announcements sit at the top, newest at the bottom. • Posts show the poster's photo and name, grouped by day. • A "Seen" mark shows which ones you've already read. • Whoever wrote an announcement can delete it. Chat • File a chat away. Archive it and you are taken back to Messages, with a note saying where it went. • Swipe a chat right to pin, left to archive. An archived chat says "Unarchive". • Edit a message from the composer, with room to see what you are typing. • Notifications say "Sent a GIF" and "Sent a sticker" instead of showing the raw link. Prep • Flag a line as "make this first" so it stands out to whoever is on prep. • You can set the flag while building the list, not only afterwards. • Two people adding the same item no longer creates two lines — they merge. Your profile • Say where you are in your own words. "Off shift" can now read whatever you want it to, up to 40 characters. • Dark mode is back, under your profile settings. Team and setup • Team, Invites and Removed are now three tabs, with one place to change someone's role or stores, or remove them. • Rename a store tablet — owners, GMs, and that store's manager. • Revoking an invite now takes access back. Re-inviting reinstates. • You can invite somebody who already has an account from an earlier try. • People show in the team list or under "Invited, not joined" — not both. Help • New help site at butters.cafe/help — a page per feature, with search. It works without signing in, so a new starter can read it straight from the invite email. Fixes • Signing in on a computer no longer signs you out on your phone. • Dismissing "what you missed" now sticks. • Making a sticker no longer fails silently when you press Save. • The shift report no longer shows yesterday's weather while today's loads. • Text that was unreadable on yellow buttons and notices. • People who have left no longer receive notifications. • The week runs Sunday through Saturday again. ## Apps similar to Butters | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [OTT PAY](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ott-pay/id1478424303) | — | Free | Business | | [TempStars](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tempstars/id1094751710) | 4.4 (19) | Free | Business | | [SparkReceipt: Receipt Scanner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sparkreceipt-receipt-scanner/id1660447131) | 4.8 (922) | Free | Business | | [Payworks Self Service](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/payworks-self-service/id6504584369) | — | Free | Business | ## More apps by Wesley Ng - [TileBuddy: Mahjong Scoring](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tilebuddy-mahjong-scoring/id6759950974) All apps by Wesley Ng: https://appshunter.io/developer/1881890029 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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