CCRG vs CooksTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CCRG
This app simplifies food purchasing for restaurants by leveraging collective buying power. It negotiates the best pricing structures with distributors and independent restaurants across New England, ensuring ethical practices.
- Streamlined food purchasing
- Negotiates best pricing
- Works with independent restaurants
- Ethical distributor guidelines
- Cost control for restaurants
Read full descriptionHide full description
Cost Control Restaurant Group’s® Purchasing Power delivers a straight forward and no-nonsense approach to food purchasing. We attain the best pricing structure that exists by working with only the best independent restaurants throughout New England and maintaining ethical guidelines with distributors we work with.
CooksTime
This all-in-one accounting software is designed specifically for restaurants. It allows for sharing employee schedules, accessing manager logs, and managing inventory, including stock reordering and recipe sharing.
- Employee scheduling
- Manager log access
- Inventory management
- Stock reordering
- Recipe sharing
Read full descriptionHide full description
With CooksTime all in one accounting software just for restaurants. Share your employees schedule, access your managers log and manage inventory which includes counting inventory, reordering stock, sharing recipes and more.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CooksTime at every 2 weeks against CCRG's every 2 months. CCRG's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CCRG against 5.0 for CooksTime. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
CCRG ships an update every 2 months, CooksTime every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CCRG | CooksTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hospitality Discipline Services, Inc. | CooksTime Inc |
Customer experience
CCRG
CooksTime
In-app purchases
CCRG
No in-app purchases
CooksTime
No in-app purchases
