COGS-Well vs xtraCHEF

COGS-Well is cloud software for restaurant inventory, recipe and food-cost control. xtraCHEF by Toast is restaurant back-office software for invoice automation, recipe costing, inventory and cost reporting. Both are listed under Inventory Management. They differ in price, audience and integrations.

Key differences

  • price

    COGS-Well publishes a starting price of USD 199 per location per month. XtraCHEF does not publish a starting price.

  • audience

    Audience differs between the profiles. Listed by one product alone: COGS-Well: Multi-location restaurant brands; xtraCHEF: US restaurants and groups tracking food cost.

  • integrations

    COGS-Well names 26 integrations and xtraCHEF names 8 integrations. 4 partners appear in every list.

  • company background

    By headquarters, COGS-Well (Danville, United States) and xtraCHEF (Boston, United States).

Side by side

COGS-Well vs xtraCHEF: side-by-side comparison from published vendor information
FieldCOGS-WellxtraCHEF
What it isCOGS-Well is cloud software for restaurant inventory, recipe and food-cost control.xtraCHEF by Toast is restaurant back-office software for invoice automation, recipe costing, inventory and cost reporting.
Best forMulti-location restaurant brands; Operators with a commissary or central kitchenUS restaurants and groups tracking food cost; Toast POS customers; Finance and culinary teams working from one dataset
Pricing modelSubscription per locationQuote only
Starting priceUSD 199 per location per monthNot published
Free planNot publishedNot published
Free trialNot publishedNot published
ContractNone (month-to-month)Not published
PlatformsWebWeb
CountriesUnited StatesUnited States
LanguagesNot publishedNot published
Number of integrations268
CertificationsNot publishedNot published
Security practicesNot publishedNot published
FoundedNot publishedNot published
HeadquartersDanville, United StatesBoston, United States
OwnerNot publishedToast, Inc., which acquired xtraCHEF on 8 June 2021
Last reviewed29 September 202629 September 2026

Integrations

Named by both

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Oracle NetSuite
  • QuickBooks
  • Toast

Named only by COGS-Well

  • Clover
  • Gordon Food Service
  • GoTab
  • Heartland
  • HungerRush
  • Aloha
  • Micros
  • Ottimate
  • Brink
  • PAR PixelPoint
  • POSitouch
  • Restaurant365
and 10 more
  • Revel
  • Sage
  • Shamrock Foods
  • SpotOn
  • Square
  • Sysco
  • TouchBistro
  • Upserve
  • US Foods
  • Xero

Named only by xtraCHEF

  • Bill.com
  • Compeat
  • Crunch Time
  • CTUIT

Which to choose

COGS-Well

Choose COGS-Well if your business matches one of the audiences it is listed for: Multi-location restaurant brands; Operators with a commissary or central kitchen.

xtraCHEF

Choose xtraCHEF if your business matches one of the audiences it is listed for: US restaurants and groups tracking food cost; Toast POS customers; Finance and culinary teams working from one dataset.

Less suited to: Restaurants outside the United States. The product page is served only in the US edition and says the content is not available in the United Kingdom.

What we could not confirm

COGS-Well

  • Founding year and team size
  • Which listed partners are live integrations and for which POS
  • Security certifications
  • Mobile app availability on iOS or Android
  • Interface languages
  • Whether Foundation plan is available without the named AP partners

xtraCHEF

  • Prices for Essentials and Pro
  • Contract terms
  • The pos.toasttab.com/xtrachef page (the live page is /products/xtrachef)
  • Founding year of xtraCHEF and current employee count
  • Security certifications and interface languages

Go further

COGS-Well profilextraCHEF profile

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Sources

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