Restaurant365 Alternative
Restaurant365 is an enterprise platform: accounting, payroll and inventory for chains. Bar Cop gives an independent operator the numbers that run the place, without the weight and high cost.
What each one actually covers.
| Restaurant365 | Bar Cop | |
|---|---|---|
| Food and beverage inventory | Yes | Yes |
| How you count | Manual count | Fill sliders, no scale |
| Recipe costing and food cost | Yes | Yes |
| Purchasing, vendors, and AP | Yes | Yes |
| Labor scheduling, tips, overtime | Yes | Yes |
| Payroll and HR | Full payroll | Hours and tips to your processor |
| Shift cash, over and short, voids, comps | — | Yes |
| Weekly close: sales, labor and cost of goods together | — | Yes |
| Audits that score you and price what they find | — | Four, on demand |
| 13-week cash flow forecast | Forecasting tools | Yes |
| Events and catering | — | Yes |
| General ledger accounting | Full GL | Books and P&L, not a GL |
| Where it runs | Web and mobile app | Any browser, nothing to install |
| Works with your POS | Integrations, implemented | Any POS, drop the export |
| Built for | Multi-unit groups and chains | The whole independent back office |
Restaurant365's plans and features change over time. This compares the two on what each is built to do, based on Restaurant365's publicly listed information. Check their site for their current details.
A system you have to staff.
Give Restaurant365 its due, it is the real thing. A full general ledger, payroll, scheduling, inventory, and purchasing, one platform a growing group can run its whole company on. Ten locations with a controller and a back-office team, it is built for you. That is also the catch for everyone else. It comes with a sixty to ninety day rollout, an implementation fee, a multi-year contract, and, in their own users' words, staff dedicated to running it. It is infrastructure you commit to, not a tool you pick up.
Bar Cop is built for the operator who is the back-office team. You count, run labor and shift cash, run your own audits, forecast, and close out the week yourself, no rollout, no contract, no controller to hire. It does not carry a full ledger or run payroll, and it is not meant to. It hands your accountant clean books and a P&L and your processor clean hours, and covers everything in between. One bar or a small group, month to month, the numbers that run the place without the enterprise weight around them.
Get the lighter one.
Bar Cop vs Restaurant365.
What operators ask when they are deciding between the two.