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.
Ratatool builds the spec sheet field by field, by typing. methodus builds it from 35 seconds of voice — costs and allergens included — and trains the team on the standard.
Yes. With methodus the fiche is dictated, not typed: the catalogue that took a season to type is dictated in an afternoon. The chef talks, the fiche comes out complete.
Both cost recipes. methodus keeps the cost current from scanned invoices, and adds team training and certification plus a real bar program — cocktails, doses, cost per glass.
methodus starts at $69/mo for the whole house (1 Editor + 5 Learners, unlimited recipes), 14-day free trial, no card. Ratatool has its own tiers. Compare on voice capture and team training.
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