Fit factors
- Purchasing complexity
- Recipe and menu scale
- Number of storage areas
- Accounting integration
Vendor comparison framework
Inventory and food-cost platforms
Assess whether a platform makes recipe, purchasing, invoice, count and variance routines easier for the people who perform them.
Compare
- Invoice capture
- Recipe costing
- Count workflow
- Units and conversions
- Waste
- Theoretical usage
- Accounting export
- Implementation
Questions for demos
- Who cleans and maps initial item data?
- How are substitutions handled?
- Can counts continue offline?
- How are units audited?
Red flags
- Automation promised before item setup
- No implementation owner
- Counts require excessive clicks
- Variance reports without traceable inputs