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Tinz vs Excel for your restaurant

Excel is where almost every restaurant owner starts. It works, it's free and it's flexible. The real question is different: does it still pay off once the restaurant grows and the invoices pile up? Here's the honest comparison.

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Quick summary

Excel is free and flexible, but it forces you to type everything by hand and never warns you about anything. Tinz reads your invoices for you in 7 seconds, keeps every dish's food cost updated on its own, and warns you when a supplier raises prices. If you spend more than an hour a week entering expenses in Excel, Tinz pays for itself.

Comparison

Side-by-side comparison

Automatic invoice reading (OCR)TinzExcel
Food cost per dish updates itselfTinzExcel
Supplier price increase alertsTinzExcel
Bank reconciliation from a statement PDFTinzExcel
Automatic order and stock suggestionsTinzExcel
Cash expense loggingTinzExcel
Access from your phone anywhereTinzExcelLimited
Doesn't depend on formulas that breakTinzExcel
Monthly costTinzFrom €49ExcelFree

In detail

What changes in practice.

Logging invoices

Typing by hand vs taking a photo

In Excel, every invoice is a row you open, fill in and fill in again: supplier, amount, date, category. Multiply that by dozens of invoices a week and it's hours spent entering data instead of running the restaurant.

In Tinz, you photograph the invoice with your phone and in 7 seconds everything is there: supplier, tax ID, line items, VAT rates and total. Anyone who receives invoices by email forwards them to a single address and never even touches the phone.

Food cost

Formulas that break vs a margin that's always up to date

In Excel, a dish's food cost is a formula that depends on other cells. When an ingredient's price changes, or someone drags the wrong cell, the numbers stop adding up and nobody notices for months.

In Tinz, each dish's cost recalculates itself with every purchase logged from your invoices. You immediately see, colour-coded, which dishes started losing money when an ingredient went up.

Alerts

Excel never warns you about anything

A spreadsheet is passive: it only shows what you put into it, and only when you open it. If a supplier raises the price of olive oil by 20%, Excel says nothing.

Tinz warns you when a supplier raises the price of an item above average, when a category spikes compared to your history, and when there are unpaid invoices. Staying in control stops depending on your memory.

Honest comparison

Where Excel still wins

Let's be fair: Excel is free and has no limits. If you run a single location, have few invoices a month and like controlling every formula yourself, Excel is more than enough. Tinz starts paying off once the time you spend entering expenses, or the money you lose from missing a price increase, costs more than the subscription.

Common questions

You don't need to migrate your history formula by formula. Tinz starts from the invoices you photograph or forward. For your dish and ingredient catalogue, you can import XLSX, CSV or PDF files and the AI extracts the data.

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