Comparison

Restaurant Depot Mobile vs Restaurant Core Systems

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Restaurant Depot Mobile

This app allows active members to conveniently order food items for pickup or delivery. Members can also access a shoppable flyer, download receipts, and use a virtual membership card for branch entry.

Highlights
  • Online ordering for pickup/delivery
  • Shoppable flyer access
  • Downloadable receipts
  • Order guides creation
  • Virtual membership card
Features
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Make shopping easier with the new Restaurant Depot app, exclusively for active members. Place an order for pickup or delivery, access a shoppable flyer, download receipts, create order guides and scan into the branch using the virtual membership card.

About

Restaurant Core Systems

Streamline kitchen prep and costing with real-time inventory tracking and accurate recipe costing. Connect to scales and printers for a paperless workflow, ensuring precise food cost data and efficient operations.

Highlights
  • Real-time prep tracking with connected scales
  • Accurate recipe costing with dynamic ingredient prices
  • Prep yield calibration for precise measurements
  • One-tap label printing for kitchen items
  • Inventory management and invoice capture
  • POS sales reports integration
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Restaurant Core Systems puts your kitchen's full prep and costing workflow in your pocket. From weighing a fresh batch of sauce on a connected BLE scale to printing a label and tracking inventory in real time — it all happens on the iPhone in your apron pocket. WHO IT'S FOR • Restaurant owners and managers who need accurate food cost data, not best-guess spreadsheets. • Prep cooks who want a faster, paperless workflow. • Multi-station kitchens that need every prep label to look the same and every weight to be logged. What It Does Prep Tracking With a Real Scale Connect a Bluetooth weight scale and the app captures every prep in pounds, ounces, or by count. Auto-tare for your hotel pans and ambros. Reweigh and edit in seconds. Volume entry for sauces and stocks measured in fl oz. Recipe Costing That Stays Accurate Build recipes once. Ingredient prices flow through from your invoices, so cost-per-serving stays current as vendor prices change. Sub-recipes, multipliers for batch scaling, modifier costs — all handled. Prep Yield Calibration Weigh raw input and finished product side by side. The app computes yield % automatically and saves it to the recipe, so cost-per-usable-ounce stays accurate even after trimming, cooking, and shrink. One-tap Label Printing Niimbot B1 over Bluetooth or Brother QL-820NWB over Wi-Fi — both supported out of the box. Labels include recipe name, weight, prep date, who prepped it, and a QR code that opens the prep log in History. Quick Prin A library of one-tap status labels — Cool Down, Defrost, Hot Held — for everything in your walk-in that doesn't need a full prep log. Inventory, Invoices, and Sales Run weekly inventory counts. Capture invoices for cost tracking. View sales reports and product mix from your POS. Everything ties back to the same recipe and ingredient catalog. Languages English and Spanish, with the language follower your iPhone's setting. Works • Our custom made high accuracy bluetooth scale • Niimbot B1 label printer (Bluetooth) • Brother QL-820NWB label printer (Wi-Fi) • Restaurant Core Systems backend (account required) What You Need An active Restaurant Core Systems subscription. Reach out via the Support link to set up an account for your kitchen.

Screenshots

Restaurant Depot Mobile3 screens
Restaurant Core Systems4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Restaurant Core Systems at 5.0 against Restaurant Depot Mobile's 2.8. Restaurant Core Systems also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Restaurant Depot Mobile's advantage is chart position (#205 vs unranked) and ratings volume (21 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Restaurant Core Systems holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant Depot Mobile has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Restaurant Depot Mobile versus Restaurant Core Systems: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRestaurant Depot MobileRestaurant Core Systems
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (21 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews7.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
Best chart rank#205 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size297 MB36 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRestaurant Depot LLCRestaurant Core Systems LLC

Bugs and requests

Restaurant Depot Mobile

Reported bugs

72 issues
  • App doesn’t accept password
  • Delivery never arrived
  • Blank screen issues
  • Nothing comes up at all
  • App always crashing or always down
Show 67 more
  • App is not working
  • App not responsive
  • Sends back to login again
  • Everything is slow
  • Search terms have to be exact
  • No description of anything
  • Loads very slowly and clunky
  • Horrible app design
  • Search loads forever
  • Won’t operate as advertised
  • Doesn’t work 99.9% of the time
  • Doesn’t search when item is put in
  • Impossible to use
  • Literally none of the buttons work
  • Millions of bugs on the app
  • Unresponsive at best
  • Search functions nonexistent
  • Lag time is terrible
  • Janky app
  • Unsure if it received typed input
  • Doesn’t store sign on info
  • Slow and heavy
  • Doesn’t show related products
  • Shows random stuff
  • Incredibly slow
  • Takes forever to load pages
  • Forces sign in again
  • Inventory rarely up to date
  • Items show as in stock but aren't
  • Nearly useless for planning
  • Poorly designed user experience
  • Navigation confusing and clunky
  • Nothing works in this app
  • Severely limits sales
  • Ruins the brand overall
  • Worst exp
  • Very slow response
  • Nothing works as it should
  • Very slow and nothing works
  • Takes forever to loading
  • Utterly useless, worthless nonfunctioning
  • Amazing that a company can't have a functioning app
  • Extremely slow and inefficient
  • Inventory not up to date
  • Not efficient
  • Don't waste your time
  • Easier calling the store directly
  • Practically unusable
  • None of the buttons work
  • Can't find items
  • Too glitchy to use
  • Laziest most shameful app
  • Worse than using phone browser
  • Doesn’t stay logged in
  • App using mobile website
  • App too slow
  • App needs an update
  • Always freezes
  • Can’t see items to add to charts
  • Must login every time
  • Not organized at all
  • Slow and miss-organized
  • Behind today technology
  • Charged 5% additional in store price
  • The App seems like a pretty Good idea but realistically you're better off just going yourself.
  • First Time they said they didnt have the order after showing it on my phone.
  • Second time things were Missing i ordered.

Requested features

8 requests
  • Make adjustments for in store purchases
  • Fix the app
  • Upgrade the app
  • Develop a working app
  • Outsource app development if necessary
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  • Have a functioning app
  • Update the app
  • Revamp the app

Restaurant Core Systems

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Restaurant Depot Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Restaurant Core Systems

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Restaurant Depot Mobile free?
Restaurant Depot Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Restaurant Core Systems free?
Restaurant Core Systems is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Restaurant Depot Mobile or Restaurant Core Systems?
Restaurant Core Systems is rated higher. Restaurant Depot Mobile averages 2.8 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Restaurant Core Systems averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Restaurant Depot Mobile or Restaurant Core Systems have ads?
Restaurant Depot Mobile shows ads; Restaurant Core Systems does not.

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