ChefTec
Foodservice management software for recipe costing, inventory tracking, and menu profitability optimization
- Also known as
- cheftec
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is ChefTec?
ChefTec is inventory and recipe management software that enables foodservice operations to track ingredient costs, optimize menu pricing, manage purchasing, and integrate with POS systems and accounting platforms to streamline back-of-house operations.
ChefTec pricing
We don't have ChefTec's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Subscription-based with add-on integrations from $595/year
Add-ons
- QB Integration$595/yr
- Caterease Banquet Event Orders Import$595 one-time
- Purveyor Integration (EDI)$0/yr
- Scale Integration$0/yr
What ChefTec does
The capabilities that matter for restaurant inventory, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Recipe and portion level cogs costing
- ✓
- Theoretical vs actual variance and waste tracking
- ✓
- POS depletion sync auto deduct inventory
- ✓
- OCR invoice scanning and line item digitization
- ✓
- Edi direct wholesale supplier ordering sysco
- ✓
- Automated par level and reorder alerts
- -
- Multi location commissary and transfer management
- ✓
- Menu engineering and profitability matrix
- ✓
- Accounting gl sync for accounts payable
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- ✗
- ISO 27001
- ✗
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (14)
Independently observed- QuickBooks Online
- QuickBooks Desktop
- Jonas POS
- Sysco
- US Foodservice
- Cheney Brothers
- FreshPoint
- Maines
- Shamrock Foods
- PFG
- Reinhart Foodservice
- UNFI
- Caterease
- Mettler Toledo
ChefTec alternatives
Other restaurant inventory we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Wisk.aiCloud-based inventory and cost management platform for bars, restaurants, and hospitality venueslow · 37%
- MarginEdgeRestaurant management platform that automates invoice processing, tracks inventory, and provides daily profitability insights across multiple locationslow · 37%
- CraftableRegulated-industry software development with AI assistance and built-in compliancelow · 14%
- MeezCentralized recipe and food cost management system for restaurant teamslow · 37%
- Galley SolutionsKitchen operations platform that connects recipes and data with real-time financial accuracy across multiple locationslow · 8%
- NotchAI-powered platform that forecasts team capacity and automates engineering management decisionslow · 26%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for ChefTec, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.05 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 34 | 0.04 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Recipe and portion level cogs costing, Accounting gl sync for accounts payable, Pos depletion sync auto deduct inventory, Menu engineering and profitability matrix, Edi direct wholesale supplier ordering sysco, Ocr invoice scanning and line item digitization, Multi location commissary and transfer management, Theoretical vs actual variance and waste tracking | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 14 | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-24 · 75% |