comparison
Mise vs Foodics
Foodics is a point-of-sale platform. Its published bundles start with the till, the menu and loyalty, and inventory only appears from the middle tier up. Procurement — raising a request, routing it for approval, sending a purchase order, checking it in against the delivery note — is not listed in any bundle, and its marketplace — 100+ apps across 15+ categories — has no procurement category at all. Mise is that missing piece, and it does not try to be a till.
The till faces the customer. Ordering faces the supplier. Those are different jobs on different days.
A POS is built around a sale that already happened, and it is very good at that. Procurement is about something that has not happened yet — somebody deciding the section needs it, somebody else agreeing to pay for it, and a supplier hearing about it early enough to do anything.
Bolting it onto the till puts the kitchen's ordering inside software built for the front of house. Cooks do not open the till to ask for something. They ask the chef.
Depletion tells you what left the building. It does not tell you what to do about it.
The POS takes the tomatoes off when the dish sells. Fine, and useful. It does not know a delivery came up short and nobody wrote it down, so the count was already wrong before service started. It does not know the order went in twice because two sections both thought it was theirs. It does not know who approved any of it.
What it costs is the conversation at the end of the month, where you have a number saying you used it and an invoice saying you bought it and nothing in between that explains the gap. Nobody in that meeting is lying and nobody can prove anything.
Keep the till. Nobody is ripping out a POS mid-service and I would not tell them to.
Foodics runs the front — till, menu, loyalty, reporting. Mise runs the back door — the request, the approval, the purchase order, and checking the delivery against the note. Two halves of the same week.
They do meet. Mise has a POS API that accepts sales from Foodics or Toast; you map their item IDs to your recipes once, and after that a sale deducts the ingredients underneath it, sub-recipes included. Be clear about what that is, though. It is an API and a key, not an app you install from the Foodics marketplace. Somebody has to wire it up, and Mise is not listed there.
100+ apps. 15+ categories. Inventory is in there, ERP is in there, and not one of them raises a purchase order.
That is not an oversight, it is where the money is. A till takes a cut of every sale, so that is what gets built and that is what people build on top of. The back door does not take a cut of anything.
Be fair to Foodics: they are very good at the job they do, and the job is the till. They are not pretending to do procurement badly. They are not pretending to do it at all, which is more honest than most. It just leaves the chef ordering on WhatsApp like always.
side by side
Mise vs Foodics
| Mise | Foodics | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A procurement system: requests, approvals, purchase orders, receiving | A point-of-sale platform: till, menu, loyalty, reporting |
| Point of sale | None. Mise does not run a till and does not take payments | Cloud POS from the entry bundle up, with payment services |
| Inventory in the entry tier | Included at $79 — stock, reorder levels, valuation | Not listed in the Starter Bundle; it appears from the Basic Bundle |
| Purchase orders to suppliers | Core. One tap from an approved request, by WhatsApp and email | Not listed in any published bundle, and no procurement category among the marketplace apps |
| Approval chains | Seven built-in roles, customisable per user, with approval routed by department | Not described on the pricing page |
| Delivery-note receiving | Photograph the note; OCR fills in what arrived and flags a shortage | Not described on the pricing page |
| Billing | Monthly or annual, published per tier | Bundles quoted per month, billed annually |
where these figures come from
- Foodics Starter Bundle
- SAR 423/mo, or SAR 392/mo billed annually. Cloud POS, menu management, loyalty, dashboards, KDS. Inventory is not in this tier.
- www.foodics.com · retrieved 2026-09-07
- Foodics Basic Bundle
- SAR 801/mo, or SAR 742/mo billed annually — "Everything in Starter Bundle" plus Inventory, Accounting and HR. This is the cheapest Foodics tier with any inventory at all.
- www.foodics.com · retrieved 2026-09-07
- Foodics Advanced Bundle
- SAR 1,224/mo, or SAR 1,133/mo billed annually — adds Loyalty, BI Dashboards and API Integration
- www.foodics.com · retrieved 2026-09-07
- The Foodics–KASO partnership
- Announced from Riyadh in January 2023, to digitalise restaurants' inventory and ordering. Foodics does not mention it on its own site today.
- www.kaso.ai · retrieved 2026-09-07
- Mise entry price
- $79 a month for one location and up to 10 users, 14-day trial, no card
- www.miseapp.app · retrieved 2026-09-07
- Procurement in the Foodics marketplace
- The marketplace lists 100+ apps across 15+ categories, including Inventory Management and ERP. There is no procurement or purchasing category, and KASO is not among the apps listed.
- www.foodics.com · retrieved 2026-09-08
Every claim above is taken from the vendor’s own published page on the date shown. Prices change; if you find one of these out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
the other side
Choose Foodics if
- You need a point of sale. Mise has none, does not take payments, and is not trying to replace your till.
- You want one vendor for the till, the menu, loyalty and reporting, and procurement is a secondary concern.
- Stock control tied to the till is the inventory picture you need, rather than approvals and delivery checks.
- You are already on Foodics and one of its marketplace inventory apps covers the ordering you actually do.