ChefTec

• Independent restaurants and small chains

  The vendor positions ChefTec for independent food operations and small chains that need costing, inventory and purchasing control.

• Caterers, hotels and clubs

  The vendor runs separate marketplace pages for catering, hotels, country clubs, education, casinos and supermarkets.

• Multi-unit operations (ChefTec Ultra)

  The Ultra edition is described as being for larger, complex or multi-unit operations.

• Recipe and menu costing

  Costs recipes and menus from ingredient prices, and the vendor says recipes are the core of the system.

• Inventory control

  Tracks inventory, usage, waste and shrinkage.

• Purchasing and ordering

  Creates purchase orders and can place orders and receive invoices with distributors electronically through EDI services.

• Nutritional analysis

  Nutrition calculation for recipes, offered as a service that draws on USDA data.

• Production management

  Production planning for kitchens, listed among the core modules.

• Requisitions and transfers

  Handles requisitions and transfers between locations or storerooms.

• Sales analysis and menu engineering

  Sales reports intended to show ideal price points, listed in the vendor's product description.

• Lot tracking and recalls

  A lot tracking module for tracing recalled foods, announced in a 2014 press release.

• Waste tracking module

  Tracks foodservice waste, announced in a 2012 press release.

• Mobile Solutions

  Handheld tablet tools for receiving, requisitions and recipes.

• Add-ons: Reporter, CalendarBuilder, Remote Notifications, eRecipes

  Separate products listed alongside the core software.

Starting price

From USD 2995 one-off

Pricing model

One-off licence

The site's shopping cart page lists ChefTec Basic on-premises (non-SaaS) at $2,995, an EDI service (Sysco) at $595 and a Nutritional Analysis Service (Premium) at $595. Treat these as indicative, not a full price list. Editions are Basic, Plus and Ultra.

Compared with the 17 products in Recipe Costing & Menu Engineering that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 9 integrations. The median in this category is 4.
• Lists Web and Windows only. Among the 17 products in this category that state their platforms, 3 list an iOS app and 3 list an Android app.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are QuickBooks, Square, Toast, Caterease, MarginEdge, NiceLabel, Nutrislice, Ottimate, Restaurant365, Sysco. Of these, this product's listing names QuickBooks, Sysco.

Accounting

QuickBooksJonas

Suppliers

SyscoUS FoodsPerformance FoodserviceReinhart FoodserviceUNFIMaines Paper & Food ServiceFreshPoint Produce

The distributor EDI list comes from a March 2017 press release and may have changed. The home page also lists integrations for invoice processors and scales without naming them.

Customers in

United States

Languages

English, Spanish, French

Platforms

Windows, Web

Hardware

Mobile Solutions runs on handheld tablets; the vendor's 2013 press release names an HP ElitePad 900 as the standard device.

The vendor lists no markets. The United States is inferred from its Boulder, Colorado address and US customers; it also names a lodge in Belize and says it serves installations around the world.

Company

Culinary Software Services, Inc.

Founded

1990

Headquarters

Boulder, United States

Customers named by the vendor

Amazon Go, PGA Tours, Lettuce Entertain You, Space Needle Corp, US Naval Academy, PCC Natural Markets, Augusta Country Club, US Military Academy

Support

Phone support is listed on the site (toll-free 800.447.1466). The vendor also offers training, consultancy, quick data entry and backup services.

Vendor

Culinary Software Services

Built for

Restaurants, Catering, Hotel F&B

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

cheftec.com

Also listed in

Inventory ManagementPurchasing & Procurement

• reciProfity (incl. CostGuard)

  reciProfity is cloud software for recipe costing, inventory control and recipe management, sold to restaurants, hotels, caterers, multi-unit groups and retail prepared-food departments.

  Runs on Web, against Web and Windows for ChefTec.

• meez

  meez is web-based recipe management and food costing software for professional kitchens.

  Runs on Web, against Web and Windows for ChefTec.

• Parsley

  Parsley is kitchen management software that starts from recipes: it costs and scales them, produces nutrition facts and allergen lists, prints labels, and turns forecasts or events into prep lists, production plans and supplier orders.

  Runs on Web, iOS and Android, against Web and Windows for ChefTec.

• CalcMenu

  CalcMenu is cloud recipe management software for professional kitchens.

  Runs on Web, against Web and Windows for ChefTec.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• ChefTec vs CakeBoss
• ChefTec vs CalcMenu
• ChefTec vs Galley Solutions
• ChefTec vs JAMIX
• ChefTec vs Kitchen CUT F+B Engine
• ChefTec vs meez
• ChefTec vs Galley Solutions vs Parsley
• ChefTec vs Galley Solutions vs meez vs nutraCoster

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Edition-by-edition price list and subscription options
• Contract terms and renewal
• Current feature list per edition
• Security certifications
• Employee count and funding
• Whether the distributor EDI list from 2017 is still current
• Edition price list

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Homepage: products, editions, services, customershttps://www.cheftec.com/
2. Company history, Boulder locationhttps://www.cheftec.com/about
3. Indicative prices, address, languageshttps://www.cheftec.com/shopping-cart
4. Distributor EDI integrationshttps://www.cheftec.com/edi-interface-suite-expands
5. Modules and integrations historyhttps://www.cheftec.com/press
6. Marketplaces and product indexhttps://www.cheftec.com/sitemap
7. Product description and installationshttps://www.cheftec.com/download-from-the-cloud