The invoice does the work
Scan it or forward it and your costs, margins, stock and orders all move at once. One document in, your whole back office updated.
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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 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Accounting software sync | Yes | 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 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Recipe costing | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Margin per dish | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supplier price trends and alerts | Yes | No | Yes | Not advertised | Yes | Yes |
| Day to day operations | ||||||
| Inventory pre-filled from invoices | Yes | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Counts the 20 percent that drives your cost | Yes | No | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Supplier ordering | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi location | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| How the answers reach you | ||||||
| Daily report on WhatsApp | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Dashboard you log into | Yes | 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 | Included | Another file | Not advertised | Priced per site | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Locked into a contract | No | 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, first month | Yes | Book a demo | 14 days | Book a demo | Book a demo |
| Money | ||||||
| Entry price | Scales with what you buy | Free, your evenings are not | 95 € / month | 90 € / month | On request | 199 $ / month |
Every 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. Tako has no scan counter and no user counter. Your price follows what you actually buy, which is the one number that already reflects how big you are.
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. 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 to start. Up in 10 minutes. Real people if you need them.