Open Pantry vs Restoke: which is right for your venue?
The short answer
This is the closest comparison on the restaurant side, and both are Australian. Restoke is a kitchen-operations platform: costing and invoices on the entry plan, then inventory, ordering, procedures, training and compliance on Pro, at $111 to $219 a month per site, with more than thirty named POS integrations including the Australian ones. Open Pantry comes at it from the order — free ordering across the suppliers you already have, and costing bought once for $199 rather than rented. Restoke is stronger on staff operations and named POS integrations; Open Pantry is stronger on ordering, delivery check-off and credit claims, and on what it costs to find out.
Choose Open Pantry if…
- Ordering is the job. One cart across every supplier you already buy from, recurring orders, pantry lists and prep lists that turn portions into a shopping list — and it is free for the venue.
- You want costing you own rather than rent: $199 once, for life, with a 30-day money-back guarantee, against $111 a month per site at Restoke’s cheapest annual rate.
- Short deliveries and wrong prices are the leak. Check the delivery off at the door, have the invoice matched line by line, and raise the credit claim to the supplier from the same screen.
- You want the ordering, the invoice, the price history and the dish cost to be one chain rather than a costing tool that reads invoices and a separate ordering habit.
Choose Restoke if…
- A named, proven integration with your specific till is decisive. Restoke names more than thirty POS systems including H&L, OrderMate, Impos, Idealpos, SwiftPOS, Redcat, Oolio and Tyro. Open Pantry connects directly to one, Triniteq PowerEPOS, and takes every other till by template import.
- Running the kitchen team is the problem: checklists, procedures, training modules, prep runs, kiosk mode, temperature logging and OHS templates are published Restoke features, not add-ons.
- You want a conversational assistant over your own data and AI-generated reports — its Copilot and Smart Reports do that.
- You need MYOB Acumatica or Microsoft Business Central rather than plain Xero, QuickBooks or MYOB.
Open Pantry and Restoke at a glance
Every Restoke cell below is footnoted to a dated source at the foot of this page. Where a capability is not described on Restoke’s own site we mark it partial and say so — that means we could not confirm it, not that it is missing.
| Capability | Open Pantry | Restoke |
|---|---|---|
| Ordering from your suppliers | YesOne cart across every supplier you already buy from, split into one order per supplier when you send it, with recurring orders and pantry lists. Free for the venue. | YesEmail purchase orders and SMS orders to suppliers, with scheduled, immediate, standing and "smart" orders, order-from-stocktake and order receiving. Ordering is a Pro-plan feature, not on Essentials.[3] |
| Keeping your own supplier accounts and prices | YesYou keep your own supplier accounts and your own negotiated prices, and you can add a supplier yourself. Open Pantry is not a marketplace and sells you nothing. | YesYour own suppliers, managed in the platform with bulk supplier import and Gmail supplier imports. Orders go out as emails or SMS to the supplier rather than through a marketplace.[3] |
| Supplier invoice capture and automatic price updates | YesPhotograph, upload or email invoices to your own address; suppliers, products and prices appear, and every price change flows into your recipe costs. Up to 250 invoices a month on Menu Profit Manager. | YesAI invoice analysis accepting images, PDF, CSV and XLSX plus credit notes and statements, and an invoices-by-email address. Unlimited invoice processing is on the entry plan, and live supplier pricing updates every affected ingredient, recipe and menu item.[5] |
| Price-change alerts | YesPrice-spike alerts that name which dishes the rise hurts and what to charge instead, with every change shown old to new as a percentage. | YesPrice update notifications, order alerts and SMS alerts, plus notification when a recipe drifts outside the margin target you set.[1] |
| Recipe and menu costing | YesRecipes costed from the prices you actually paid, sub-recipes rolling up, and dishes re-costing themselves when a supplier price moves. | YesAI-powered live food costing with a recipe cost calculator and dashboard, dish and prep recipes, menus and an AI recipe builder. Dynamic recipe costing is a Pro feature.[2] |
| Live profit per dish | YesA cost percentage and trend on every dish, with margins ranked into top earners and the ones that need attention. | YesMenu engineering and recipe cost ranges, with margins shown and a notification when a recipe moves outside target. The phrase "live gross profit per dish" is not used on its pages.[2] |
| Inventory and stocktakes | YesBalance, par level and trigger per product by storage area, guided stocktakes in the unit you buy with barcode or manual counting, and the count becomes live stock. Restaurant Pro Suite. | YesLive inventory tracking, stocktakes, storage areas, stock movement and substitution groups, with the count list built for you. Pro plan.[4] |
| Waste tracking | YesWrite-offs logged with a reason and a reporter, costed and split by reason, menu, item and employee, with stocktake variances in the same report. | PartialWaste management and a wastage report are listed in the plan table, but no feature page describes how waste is captured or costed. Not stated publicly — confirm with vendor.[1] |
| Preparation lists | YesPreparation lists that turn portions to make into the ingredients still to buy and put them in the cart, with projected cost and profit. | YesPreparation runs and kitchen prep automation, with prep recipes distinct from dish recipes, on the Pro plan.[6] |
| Delivery check-off and credit claims | YesCheck the delivery off at the door and the invoice is matched line by line against what arrived; a shortfall becomes a credit request your supplier can see. | PartialOrder receiving is a listed feature and credit notes are processed from supplier documents. A delivery check-off done at the door, and a credit claim raised back to the supplier from it, are not described publicly.[1] |
| POS sales integration | PartialOne till connects directly — Triniteq PowerEPOS — pulling the day’s takings through automatically, matched to your recipes and never written back. It is set up per venue rather than self-serve. Every other till uses a bulk sales-template import or manual entry, which lands in the same table. Waste is logged in Open Pantry rather than imported from the till. | YesMore than thirty named POS integrations, on every plan, including the Australian bench — H&L, OrderMate, Impos, Idealpos, SwiftPOS, Redcat, Oolio and Tyro — alongside Lightspeed, Square, Clover, Toast, Epos Now, ROLLER and Otter.[7] |
| Accounting integration | YesReviewed invoices land in Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB as bills, so nothing is entered twice. | YesXero, QuickBooks, MYOB, MYOB Acumatica and Microsoft Business Central, on every plan.[7] |
| Multi-venue and group control | PartialEach venue keeps its own suppliers, products, recipes and price history, which is deliberate — two sites cannot share a wrong number. There is no group catalogue, no group price list and no group purchase approval; a group is handled as per-venue licences. | YesMulti-venue management on the Pro plan, and a Headquarters command centre for recipes, users, reporting, outlet permissions and location switching. Headquarters is described in one place as an Enterprise feature and in another as an add-on, and Enterprise pricing is not published.[8] |
| Nutrition and allergen labelling | NoAllergens and dietary tags are fields on the recipe card for your own kitchen. There is no nutrition panel and no compliance labelling. | PartialAutomatic allergen tracking is listed in the plan table. Nutrition panels and printed compliance labels are not described publicly — confirm with vendor.[1] |
| Rostering, payroll and restaurant accounting | NoNo rostering, no payroll and no general ledger. Reviewed invoices are pushed into the accounting system you already run; the reporting stops at sales, cost of goods, waste and dish margin. | NoNo rostering, payroll or general ledger of its own. Scheduling is integration-only — Deputy, Employment Hero, 7 Shifts, Tanda, Connecteam and others — and accounting is a sync to Xero, QuickBooks or MYOB.[7] |
| Published pricing | YesOrdering is free for the venue. Menu Profit Manager is $199 AUD once, for life, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Restaurant Pro Suite is $250 a month. | YesPublished per site in Australian dollars ex GST: Essentials $111 a month billed annually or $139 monthly; Pro $175 annually or $219 monthly; Enterprise custom. No set-up fees, no lock-in contracts. Ordering, inventory, recipes and the team features all start at Pro.[1] |
| Free plan | YesOrdering package at $0 with unlimited orders and unlimited suppliers, opened by a supplier invitation. | PartialIts calls to action say "Get started free", but no free tier appears in the plan table and no trial length or card requirement is published anywhere on the site. Not stated publicly — ask before assuming.[1] |
| Australian presence | YesAustralia and New Zealand, priced per country, with Australian support. | YesPrices in Australian dollars ex GST, a deep bench of Australian POS integrations, MYOB and MYOB Acumatica, and customer locations tagged in Melbourne, Sydney and New South Wales. No office address or countries-served statement is published; the about page says "From Sydney to Austin" and notes funding raised to expand into the US.[1] |
Open Pantry capabilities are from our own published plans and feature pages. Restoke capabilities are from its own published pages, read on 3 September 2026.
Everything Open Pantry runs
Restoke and Open Pantry overlap more than anything else on this list, so the useful thing is to be specific rather than superlative. This is exactly what Open Pantry does for a venue, with the page behind each line, so you can hold it against Restoke’s own feature pages row by row.
Ordering from the suppliers you already use
- One order round, every supplier
- One cart across all of them, split into one order per supplier when you send it.
- Pantry and preparation lists
- The order the venue owns rather than one person’s memory, and prep lists that turn portions into a shopping list.
- Recurring orders
- The weekly order that places itself, on a 7, 14 or 28 day cycle.
- Purchase history and price movements
- What you bought, what you paid, and every price change old to new with the dishes it hit.
Knowing what a dish costs
- Live recipe and menu costing
- Recipes costed off the prices you actually paid; sub-recipes roll up; dishes re-cost when a supplier moves.
- Profit insights per dish
- A cost percentage and trend on every dish, and margins ranked into earners and problems.
- Menu Profit Manager
- Invoice scanning, recipe import and price-spike alerts — $199 once, lifetime, 30-day money-back guarantee.
Knowing what you are holding
- Inventory
- Balance, par level and trigger per product by storage area, with autofill-to-par building the order.
- Stocktaking
- Guided counts in the unit you buy, barcode or manual, and the count becomes live stock.
- Sales and waste tracking
- Waste logged with a reason and a reporter, costed and split by reason, menu, item and person.
- POS sales integration
- One till connects directly — Triniteq PowerEPOS — and syncs the day’s takings against your recipes; any other till uses a template import or manual entry. Waste is logged here rather than pulled from the till.
Where each one is stronger
Neither product wins on every row, and a comparison that says otherwise is not worth reading.
Open Pantry is stronger at
- Ordering, and what it costs. One cart across every supplier you already buy from, with recurring orders, pantry lists and prep lists — free for the venue, where Restoke puts ordering and inventory behind the $175-a-month Pro plan.
- Costing you buy once. $199 AUD for life with a 30-day money-back guarantee, against $111 a month per site at Restoke’s cheapest annual rate — which passes $199 before the second year.
- Closing the loop on a short delivery: check it off at the door, have the invoice matched line by line against what actually arrived, and raise the credit claim to the supplier from the same screen.
- Price history as a first-class screen: every change old to new with the percentage, the source, and the dishes it hurt, sitting beside the orders and credits it came from.
Restoke is stronger at
- Named POS integrations — more than thirty, including the Australian systems most venues actually run. Open Pantry publishes none, and that is our weakest published row.
- Running the kitchen team: checklists, procedures, training modules, prep runs, kiosk mode, temperature logging, OHS templates and compliance history, all published features rather than add-ons.
- A conversational assistant over your own data and AI-generated reports, plus a Headquarters command centre for groups.
- Accounting breadth — MYOB Acumatica and Microsoft Business Central alongside the usual three.
What each one costs
Open Pantry
Ordering is free for the venue — unlimited orders, unlimited suppliers, pantry lists and standing orders. Menu Profit Manager is $199 AUD once, for life, with a 30-day money-back guarantee: invoice scanning up to 250 invoices a month, recipe import, live costing, margins and price-spike alerts. Restaurant Pro Suite is $250 a month and adds automated inventory and stocktake, automated ordering, POS integration and the sales, cost, waste, stocktake and variance reporting.
Restoke
Published per site in Australian dollars ex GST, with a 20% discount for annual billing: Essentials $111 a month billed annually or $139 billed monthly; Pro $175 annually or $219 monthly; Enterprise custom pricing on application. No set-up fees, no lock-in, unlimited team members and both web and mobile app on every tier. Essentials carries unlimited AI invoice processing, live food costing and the integrations; live inventory, dynamic recipe costing, vendor ordering, prep and dish recipes, procedures and training all start at Pro. Its calls to action say "free" but no free tier appears in the plan table and no trial length is published.
Source: Restoke — Pricing (plans, AUD ex GST, per-site rates, tier contents) · verified 3 September 2026
Switching from Restoke to Open Pantry
What the move actually involves. We do not promise a timeline — it depends on the size of your catalogue and how quickly your customers move across.
- Start with the invoices, not the recipes. Photograph or email a month of supplier invoices and the products, suppliers and prices build themselves — that is the data every other number depends on.
- Import the recipe book. Photograph the pages or upload the spreadsheet; recipes come in costed against the prices those invoices just loaded.
- Keep ordering the way you do now. Your supplier accounts and negotiated prices are yours and stay yours — nothing is renegotiated and no order is routed through a marketplace.
- Turn the till on last. POS sales import is a settings step once the recipes are costed and you trust the numbers.
- Run the old way alongside for a fortnight. Compare the dish costs the system produces against the ones you believe. Where they disagree it is almost always the invoice that is right.
Who uses Open Pantry
- Venues ordering through it
- 5,000+
- Suppliers on Open Pantry
- 600+
- Markets served
- AU & NZ
Open Pantry vs Restoke — common questions
What is the difference between Open Pantry and Restoke?
Both are Australian and both turn supplier invoices into live recipe costs. Restoke is a kitchen-operations platform — costing and invoices on Essentials, then inventory, ordering, staff procedures, training and compliance on Pro — priced per site at $111 to $219 a month. Open Pantry comes at it from the order: ordering across the suppliers you already have is free, and the costing is $199 once for life rather than a monthly subscription. Restoke is stronger on named POS integrations and staff operations; Open Pantry is stronger on ordering, delivery check-off and credit claims.
How much does Restoke cost?
Restoke publishes per-site pricing in Australian dollars excluding GST: Essentials at $111 a month billed annually or $139 billed monthly, Pro at $175 annually or $219 monthly, and Enterprise on application. It states no set-up fees and no lock-in contracts. Note that ordering, live inventory, recipes and all the team and training features are Pro-plan features, so a venue that wants ordering is on the $175 to $219 tier. Verified 3 September 2026.
Does Restoke have a free plan or a free trial?
Its buttons say "Get started free" and "Try for free", but no free tier appears in its published plan table and no trial length or card requirement is stated anywhere on its site. That is worth clarifying with them directly. Open Pantry’s ordering package is genuinely $0 with unlimited orders and unlimited suppliers, opened by a supplier invitation, and Menu Profit Manager carries a 30-day money-back guarantee instead of a trial.
Which one integrates with my POS?
On published evidence, Restoke. It names more than thirty POS systems on every plan, including the Australian ones — H&L, OrderMate, Impos, Idealpos, SwiftPOS, Redcat, Oolio and Tyro — alongside Lightspeed, Square, Clover and Toast. Open Pantry connects directly to one, Triniteq PowerEPOS, which syncs the day’s sales against your recipes; any other till uses a bulk sales-template import or manual entry. On breadth of named tills this is a genuine point in Restoke’s favour, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Which is cheaper over three years for a single venue?
On published prices, Open Pantry, by a wide margin, provided the free ordering package and Menu Profit Manager cover what you need. Ordering is $0 and Menu Profit Manager is $199 once. Restoke Essentials at its cheapest annual rate is $111 a month ex GST, which is about $3,996 over three years, and Pro — the tier that includes ordering and inventory — is about $6,300. If you need the automated inventory, stocktake and POS integration, compare Restaurant Pro Suite at $250 a month instead, which changes the answer.
Do either of them handle rostering or payroll?
Neither. Restoke has no rostering of its own and integrates with Deputy, Employment Hero, 7 Shifts, Tanda and others; Open Pantry does not touch labour at all. Both push invoices into an accounting system you already run rather than replacing it — Restoke adds MYOB Acumatica and Microsoft Business Central to the usual Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB.
Which is better for a group of venues?
Restoke, on what each publishes. Its multi-venue management is a Pro feature and its Headquarters command centre handles recipes, users, reporting and outlet permissions across sites — though Headquarters is described in one place as Enterprise and in another as an add-on, and Enterprise pricing is not published. Open Pantry deliberately keeps each venue separate, with its own suppliers, products, recipes and price history, and has no group catalogue, group price list or group approvals. Groups are handled as per-venue licences.
How often is this comparison checked, and what if something is wrong?
Every Restoke claim here comes from Restoke’s own published pages on the verification date at the top, and the page is re-checked quarterly. Anything marked "not stated publicly" means we could not confirm it from their site — treat it as a question for them, not a verdict. If you think something here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Sources
Every Restoke claim on this page comes from one of these pages, read on 3 September 2026. Vendors change their products and their prices; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
- Restoke — Pricing (plans, AUD ex GST, per-site rates, tier contents) — https://www.restoke.ai/pricing (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Food costing — https://www.restoke.ai/features/food-costing (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Ordering — https://www.restoke.ai/features/ordering (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Inventory — https://www.restoke.ai/features/inventory (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Invoice management — https://www.restoke.ai/features/invoice-management (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Team management (procedures, training, prep runs) — https://www.restoke.ai/features/team-management (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Integrations (POS, accounting, scheduling) — https://www.restoke.ai/integrations (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Restoke — Headquarters (multi-site command centre) — https://www.restoke.ai/features/headquarters (accessed 3 September 2026)
- Open Pantry — Restaurant pricing and plans — https://www.theopenpantry.com/restaurants/pricing (accessed 3 September 2026)
See it costed on your own invoices
Send us a month of your own supplier invoices and we will show you your dish costs and your price movements on your own numbers — not a demo menu.