Ratatool digitizes the fiche technique you used to keep in Excel — typed by hand, priced by hand. methodus builds the fiche from your voice, prices it from your invoices, and trains your team on it, kitchen and bar, in service.
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| Feature | methodus | Ratatool |
|---|---|---|
| Fiches techniques & recipe costing | ||
| Voice recipe capture | 35 sec | |
| AI invoice scanning | ||
| Supplier price updates | From invoices | Manual / CSV import |
| POS connection | Zelty, Lightspeed | Generic / CSV (Premium) |
| Bar & cocktail program | Generic recipes only | |
| Team training & quizzes | ||
| Team certification | ||
| Allergen tracking | ||
| INCO nutrition labels | ||
| Production planning & quotes | ||
| Starting price | $69/mo | €24–29/mo |
| Free entry | 14-day trial | 4 recipes / 15 ingredients |
Comparison based on each vendor's public information, June 2026.
Ratatool replaces the Excel sheet with a cleaner form — but someone still types every fiche, line by line, after service. methodus replaces the typing itself: the chef talks for 35 seconds and the fiche comes out complete, grammages, allergens, and cost included.
In Ratatool, supplier prices live on manual upkeep and CSV imports — the food cost is as fresh as the last time someone updated the mercuriale. In methodus you photograph the invoice and every fiche recalculates the same day.
A printed fiche teaches nobody at 11pm on a Saturday. methodus turns every fiche into quizzes and timestamped certifications, on the tablet at the pass and the well — the new hire learns the house by working it.
Every kitchen means to document the menu. Then service happens, and the fiche stays where it always was — in the chef's head, walking out the door with them one day. The honest reason is simple: typing forty fiches is a week of office work nobody has. That's the problem methodus removes. Dictate the recipe between two services, photograph the invoice, and the house standard exists — costed, allergen-tagged, teachable. What lived in heads becomes the house's, and stays.
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