Cucinovo vs Restaurant365
Restaurant365 is a full restaurant ERP built around accounting, inventory, and scheduling for multi-unit operators. Cucinovo is a focused recipe-costing and procurement tool at a fraction of the price, with EU multi-currency support and a free home-cook tier.
Last updated: 2026-06-15
The short version
- •Restaurant365 is an accounting-first platform: general ledger, accounts payable, payroll, scheduling, and inventory all in one. Recipe costing sits inside its Professional tier.
- •Cucinovo does recipe management, automatic food cost per portion, procurement, and event planning, without the accounting suite or the enterprise price tag.
- •Restaurant365 starts around $435 per location per month for accounting (Professional around $635 with inventory and recipe costing) and has no free plan. Cucinovo starts at EUR 29 per month with a 14-day trial.
- •Cucinovo supports 17 currencies and a free home-cook tier. Restaurant365 is built for US and Canada multi-unit operators and is restaurant-only.
Choose Restaurant365 if you need a single system for accounting, payroll, scheduling, and inventory across many locations. Choose Cucinovo if you want focused recipe costing and procurement without ERP cost and complexity.
Feature comparison
Detailed comparison
Scope & Focus
- Purpose-built for recipe management and food costing.
- Adds procurement (shopping lists, purchase orders) and event planning on Pro.
- No accounting suite to configure, so you are costing recipes the same day.
- •Full restaurant ERP: accounting, AP, payroll, scheduling, inventory.
- •Recipe costing is one module inside a much larger platform.
- •Best value when you replace several systems at once across many locations.
Recipe Costing
- Automatic cost per portion that rolls up through nested sub-recipes.
- Loss percentage handling via a dedicated loss calculator (Pro).
- Edible-portion costing so trim waste is built into every recipe.
- •Recipe costing with real-time margin analysis (Professional tier).
- •Tightly linked to invoice and inventory data for actual vs theoretical cost.
- •Requires the higher-priced plan to unlock costing features.
Pricing & Accessibility
- Free plan for home cooks. 14-day trial for restaurants.
- Starter EUR 29/mo, Pro EUR 79/mo, unlimited team members.
- 17 supported currencies for non-US operators.
- •No free plan and typically no public self-serve trial.
- •Around $435/mo per location for accounting, ~$635 with inventory and costing.
- •Per-location billing adds up quickly across multiple sites.
Pricing comparison
Cucinovo
Cost tracking, unlimited team, 1 location
Procurement, events, loss calc, 1 location
Restaurant365
Accounting and financials
Adds inventory and recipe costing
Multi-unit, advanced reporting
Restaurant365 prices per location and gates recipe costing behind its ~$635/mo Professional tier, so a single site costs roughly 8x Cucinovo's Pro plan (and over 20x its Starter). R365 earns that premium only if you also need its accounting, payroll, and scheduling.
Which should you choose?
Choose Cucinovo if you...
- Independent and small-group restaurants focused on recipe cost control
- Operators outside the US who need multi-currency support
- Caterers who plan events with guest-based scaling
- Teams that want costing without an accounting ERP to run
Choose Restaurant365 if you...
- Multi-unit groups replacing accounting, payroll, and scheduling at once
- Operators who want actuals tied to a full general ledger
- US and Canada chains with a finance team to run the platform
- Businesses that need enterprise reporting across many locations
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