DishMath vs Insight360

DishMath gives independent restaurants a way to examine the costs and margins of individual menu items, then sends weekly recommendations by SMS. It calculates food cost, labor cost, and contribution margin from POS sales and supplier invoices. Its weekly menu analysis sorts dishes into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, or Dogs according to popularity and margin. Listed connections include Toast, Square for Restaurants, Clover, QuickBooks Online, and Xero, as well as labor tools, supplier invoice sources, and services such as DoorDash and OpenTable. TouchBistro, Lightspeed, and Revel connections are labeled beta; CSV import is offered as a fallback. The product runs on web and provides an API, including rate-limited REST access and webhooks for agencies and accountants. Group costs $149 a month, billed month-to-month; Solo costs $199 a month, billed month-to-month. Annual billing is listed as two months free. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is available.

Insight360 is a paid web service that combines data from multi-unit restaurants’ source systems in one login for reporting and analytics. Pricing is available on request, and the maker offers a free demo. Flash reports show daily-updated metrics online or by email and can be customized for teams. Snapshot reports automate daily and weekly collection of sales, cost and labor data from POS, accounting and payroll systems. Users can chart trends and break results down by period, month, week, day or day part. Cross-location reports support custom analysis using more than 10,000 data points with permission-based sharing. InsightPay syncs time-clock data directly to payroll and helps identify break penalties and exceptions. An online weekly one-on-one tool tracks performance and action items with store managers. Listed connections include Square, Oracle, Toast, QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, ADP, Paychex, Paylocity and Medallia, across POS, accounting, payroll, time-clock, drive-thru and guest-satisfaction systems.