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Koust

Food-cost, inventory and recipe management for restaurants

France, Brest Founded 2016 koust.net ↗

Koust is a French SaaS for restaurant purchasing, stock control, recipe costing, invoice scanning and margin analysis, with optional HACCP traceability and inter-site transfers. It connects to POS systems to compare theoretical and actual consumption. Plans scale from a single restaurant to groups with stock transfers and an API.

Our reading. Best for French-speaking independent restaurants that want food-cost, stock and HACCP tracking with published pricing and a trial rather than a sales cycle.

What is new here
Adds invoice scanning and AI sales forecasting to a transparently priced food-cost tool for independents.

Strengths

  • Transparent pricing with a 14-day trial
  • Invoice scanning and POS integrations for variance analysis
  • AI sales forecasting and stock transfers on the top plan

Limits

  • Interface and support mainly in French
  • Invoice scan quotas per plan
Why established

Founded 2016, public pricing and multi-site features, widely listed among French food-cost tools

Notable

Hosted at OVH (Roubaix); customers report margin gains of around 5 points

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Page generated by AI (Claude) from 2 sources and the news · editorial responsibility Camille POTVIN · reviewed 23 Sep 2026