MarginKitchen vs Maya by Inputly

MarginKitchen turns restaurant POS, schedule, and vendor-invoice data into daily operating decisions before a shift begins; it works alongside those systems rather than replacing the POS. Demand Forecast estimates covers, items, and channel mix in 15-minute intervals. Smart Prep Planner recommends station pars, while Menu Margin Intelligence ranks dishes by margin and velocity. Labor Planner aligns shift coverage with forecast covers and SPLH guardrails, and Waste Tracker uses weekly waste to inform future plans. The integration directory lists 21 live connectors across POS, finance, labor, and suppliers, with CSV fallback for each provider; named POS connections include Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Revel, TouchBistro, and Clover. Managers must approve, edit, or reject recommendations, which do not automatically change prices, schedules, orders, or staffing. MarginKitchen is available on web and iOS. Single Location costs $119 a month, billed $1,428 billed annually, with a 14-day access period. The company says it completed a SOC 2 Type II audit in 2025 and that production data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3.

Maya by Inputly connects restaurant sales, recipes, stock and purchasing to forecast demand and manage inventory and food cost. It tracks ingredient quantities and expiry by perishable lot, flags low stock and recommends reorder points. Recipes link menu items to ingredients; sales forecasts can be translated into ingredient needs, including batch yields and unit conversions. Maya drafts supplier purchase orders using forecast demand, current and in-transit stock, supplier lead times and pack sizes. Forecasts are trained on a restaurant's sales history and, according to Inputly, also consider calendars, holidays, paydays, weather and local events. Proposed actions require approval, with role-based access, audit trails, reversible actions and a kill switch among the listed controls. POS connections include Square, Toast, TouchBistro, Clover, SeroPOS and Lightspeed; a REST API and webhooks are also listed. Native apps are listed for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, alongside web and API access. Maya is paid, with pricing listed from $249/mo, and has no free plan. Inputly says SOC 2 Type II is in progress.