How does ClearCOGS compare to MarginEdge?

MarginEdge manages the money side of your back office: it processes invoices, tracks food cost and profit and loss, and handles inventory counts and recipe costing. ClearCOGS manages tomorrow's kitchen: it forecasts demand by item and ingredient and tells your team what to prep, order, and schedule. One answers "what did we spend and use?" The other answers "what should we make today?"

The ClearCOGS solution: ClearCOGS forecasts at the item and ingredient level and hands your team a prep and ordering answer each morning, in the units they use, with catering and other known orders handled separately from walk-in demand. It needs no accounting setup, goes live in about three weeks, and costs $150 per location per month.

Overlap to be aware of: MarginEdge also offers AI sales forecasts to guide ordering and prep. If those forecasts already give your managers what they need, you may not need a second tool. Restaurants add ClearCOGS when they want item-level prep sheets that is built on more than just sales history. ClearCOGS models use weather, event, industry trends, and historic sales data to build your reports. 

Using both: The two can be complementary: MarginEdge records what happened, ClearCOGS predicts what will. 

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