Chefy vs Enplace

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.

Enplace is a web platform for restaurant recipes, food costing, prep planning, and kitchen workflows. It calculates plate costs from ingredient prices, conversions, yields, and sub-recipes, then updates those costs when ingredient prices change. Recipes and par levels generate daily prep and station task lists with quantities scaled to demand. Other listed tools include inventory counts, purchasing workflows, prep-label printing, digital logs, and temperature records. AI-assisted operations can analyze logs, detect patterns, and summarize issues. Schedules, recipes, prep lists, station notes, and team messages are described as automatically translated for each user. Integrations include Square and Toast, QuickBooks Online and Xero, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpenAI, and other tools. The site lists 112+ general-purpose integrations and 114+ hospitality systems available through paid custom integrations. Custom hospitality connections have a fixed one-time setup fee; most take 1–3 weeks, with possible vendor certification fees. Enplace is in private beta with selective access approval. The single-restaurant plan is free; multi-location groups are $250 a month, billed per location per month.