Food Guard vs KitchTech

KitchTech states it is trusted by over 5,000 kitchens across Ireland, the UK and Europe. That is a serious footprint in hospitality, and if you run a kitchen you should look at them properly.

The honest comparison is about what you are running.

The short version

Where KitchTech is the better fit

Two cases where we would point you at them.

• You run kitchens and nothing else. Restaurants, hotels, banqueting, contract catering. That is their stated focus and their customer base reflects it.
• You need label printing or eLearning bundled. Both are modules they offer and we do not. If you are printing PPDS labels at the counter, that is a real convenience.

Where Food Guard fits better

Production traceability

A kitchen traces a delivery to a dish. A producer traces an ingredient lot through a production run to a customer, with quantities that reconcile for mass balance. Those are different problems.

If a supplier calls about a batch, or a retailer runs a timed traceability exercise at a BRCGS audit, you need the second one. See how the chain is captured.

You supply the multiples

If you sell into Aldi, Lidl, SuperValu, Tesco or Dunnes, your food safety system has to survive a customer audit, not just an EHO visit. Greenaway Foods and Pizza Sorrento both use it for exactly that.

You can price it without a call

Our pricing is on the site: €19.99 or €79 per site per month, unlimited users, no contract. Theirs is behind a demo booking.

If you are early in a comparison and want to know whether something is affordable before committing to a sales conversation, that difference matters more than most feature comparisons.

Unlimited users, so the whole team is on it

Ration licences to supervisors and everyone else goes back to paper, which means you are running two systems and trusting neither. Every plan we sell includes every member of staff, including casuals and weekend cover.

Multi site without per site hardware

Adding a site means adding a site licence and using phones your staff already carry. Ryan’s Group run five SuperValu stores plus an 852/3 licensed production kitchen, with standalone tracking for the butchery, deli and bakery in each.

Where they overlap

Digital HACCP records, temperature monitoring with alerts, document control, audit reporting, multi site dashboards. Both replace paper properly, both work in Ireland and the UK, and both will pass an inspection.

For a single restaurant, either will do the job and the decision comes down to price and how the app feels to your team. Try both.

How to decide

1. Name your sector honestly. If you are a kitchen, weight their kitchen specialisation. If you make product, weight traceability.
2. Get both prices for your site count, including any per user cost.
3. Give both a real traceability scenario from your own operation and time the answer.
4. Put both on a phone in your actual kitchen for a week. Adoption decides this, not features.

Other comparisons

• Food Guard vs Kelsius, the other established Irish option
• Food Guard vs FoodDocs
• Thinking of switching from KitchTech, including when you should stay

Try Food Guard on a real week, or see what it costs first.