ChefExpenses vs Chefy

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Chefy is a web-based hospitality costing platform for kitchens, bars and multi-venue groups. It tracks food costs and menu margins, with product price changes updating costs through recipes and menu items. Chefy Core supports nested recipes, standard products, wastage recording and approval workflows; its free plan includes one core venue, costing, recipes, bulk product import and real-time costing updates. Chefy can process supplier invoices with AI to extract prices. It syncs Square sales and menu items to costed recipes; Square is the POS it currently links to. Chefy Admin provides performance analytics, contribution margin, approvals and audit logs across venues. Chefy Go offers mobile-first tools for prep, wastage recording and stock counting on the floor. Margin threshold alerts and automated daily reports provide further monitoring. Chefy says data is encrypted at rest, hosted in Australia and automatically backed up, and that it does not hold formal certifications such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001. Core is free; modules start at $12 a month per module.