The invoice does the work
Snap it or upload it and your costs, margins, stock and orders all move at once. One document in, your whole back office updated, for free.
Compare
Your food cost software should not need you to remember it exists
Every tool on this page can tell you your food cost. The question is whether you have to go and ask. Here is how Tako Solutions stacks up against Excel, Haddock, Koust, Yokitup and MarketMan.
5 secto turn an invoice into live numbers
20+ hrsof admin handed back every month
100+restaurants already running on Tako
10 minfrom signup to your first insight
The honest version
No vendor comparison is neutral, including this one. So we kept it to what anyone can check on our competitors' own websites. Feature lists all look the same. Scroll to the ceilings and the picture changes.
| Feature | Tako | Excel | Haddock | Koust | Yokitup | MarketMan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Getting the data in | ||||||
| Invoice scanning, no typing | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Accounting software sync | Yes optional paid app |
No | Not advertised | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery note reconciliation | Yes | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Yes | Yes |
| Manual entry required | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Costs and margins | ||||||
| Live food cost | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Recipe costing | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Margin per dish | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supplier price trends and alerts | Yes, free | No | Yes | Not advertised | Yes | Yes |
| Day to day operations | ||||||
| Inventory pre-filled from invoices | Yes, free | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Counts the 20 percent that drives your cost | Yes, free | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Supplier management and ordering | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi location | Yes optional paid app |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| How the answers reach you | ||||||
| Daily or weekly report on WhatsApp | Yes optional paid app |
No | No | No | No | No |
| Dashboard you log into | Yes, free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Humans checking the AI, every week | Yes | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| The ceilings nobody mentions on the homepage | ||||||
| Invoice scans per month | Unlimited | As many as you type | 200 to 400 | 20 to 100 | Not advertised | 50 to unlimited |
| Users included | Unlimited | One at a time | 4 to unlimited | 2 to unlimited | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Extra restaurants | First one free, others with the Multi-site app | Another file | Not advertised | Priced per site | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Locked into a contract | No, apps can be stopped anytime | No | Not advertised | Monthly or yearly | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Getting started | ||||||
| Time to go live | 10 minutes | An afternoon, then forever | Book a demo | 14 day trial | Book a demo | Book a demo |
| Onboarding with a human | Included | You are the human | Paid tier only | Not advertised | Not advertised | Included |
| Free to start | Yes, and free forever for one restaurant | Yes | Book a demo | 14 days | Book a demo | Book a demo |
| Money | ||||||
| Entry price | 0 € / month for one restaurant, no time limit | Free, your evenings are not | 95 € / month | 90 € / month | On request | 199 $ / month |
| Optional extras | Apps à la carte, billed monthly, no commitment | None | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
Tako’s core is free for one restaurant, with no time limit and no credit card: invoice scanning, live food cost, recipe costing, supplier management, price alerts, inventory and orders. Only the optional apps are paid (multi-site, accounting integration, WhatsApp report, POS connection, invoices by email, Tako × AI, dedicated expert, done-for-you recipes), and you activate them only if you need them. See our pricing page.
Every competitor number above comes from each vendor’s own public pricing page in July 2026, and you can check all of them in about ten minutes. “Not advertised” means we could not find it on their site, not that it does not exist. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
Count your invoices from last month. Go on.
Koust's entry plan stops at 20 scans a month. MarketMan's stops at 50. Haddock gives you 200 and four user accounts. Those are not our numbers, they are on their own pricing pages. A busy kitchen blows through 20 invoices in a week, so the plan you compared is rarely the plan you end up paying for. With Tako, the core is free for one restaurant, with no time limit: invoice scanning, food cost, recipes, suppliers, inventory and orders. You only pay for the optional apps you decide to switch on, month by month.
Every one of them waits for you to log in
That is the row that matters. Haddock, Koust, Yokitup and MarketMan all build you a very good dashboard. Then they wait. And a restaurant dashboard you check on Sunday is a dashboard telling you about a Tuesday you can no longer fix. With the WhatsApp report app, Tako Solutions sends the number that changed to your WhatsApp, the morning it changes. No app to open. No habit to build. No login you forgot.
And if you are still on Excel
Excel is free the way a puppy is free. It does everything on this page, as long as you are the one doing it: typing every line of every invoice, updating every recipe when a supplier moves a price, and rebuilding the whole thing when the file finally breaks. Most restaurateurs we talk to are not looking for a better spreadsheet. They are looking to stop being the spreadsheet.
Stop checking. Start knowing.
Free forever for one restaurant. Up in 10 minutes. Real people if you need them.