SWITCH FROM APICBASE
Apicbase to Calisto Dine
Recipes, food cost, stock, purchasing and the routine checks in the same app as the floor and the register, with Inventory and Assure beside it.
- Restaurants
- Catering
Feature by feature
Calisto Dine beside Apicbase
- 23 In both
| 23 features | Calisto Dine | Apicbase |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes | ||
| Recipes and sub-recipes with method and portionsCalisto: Recipes, each naming the dish it is sold as, with its components, quantities and method.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Recipes written by AI from the kitchen's own constraintsCalisto: Draft with AI writes a recipe from the kitchen's request using only its own ingredients and recipes; the cook reviews every line before it is saved.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Recipes read in from documents and photos by AICalisto: Read a Recipe takes a photo, a PDF or a document, reads the name, yield, method and each line, and matches each line to an ingredient for the cook to confirm.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Food Cost | ||
| Menu engineering from sales and marginsCalisto: Reports, Menu engineering, each class named for what it means.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Food cost per dish against a targetCalisto: Food Cost, Menu costing, against the target set in Settings, Restaurant, Rules.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Actual against theoretical food costCalisto: Food Cost, Actual vs theoretical.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Menu | ||
| Allergens kept on ingredients and carried to every recipe and menuCalisto: each ingredient declares what it contains and may contain, and every dish made with it carries them through sub-recipes, naming the ingredient each comes from; the kitchen can add, never drop one.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Allergen information on menus for the teamCalisto: Items, Allergens, the matrix of every dish, also kept on the phone with no signal.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Nutrition values and Nutri-ScoreCalisto: each ingredient keeps its nutrition per 100 g, by hand, from the food composition table or from Open Food Facts by barcode, and every dish adds it up per serving and per 100 g with its Nutri-Score.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Kitchen | ||
| Consumer food labels for prepacked foodCalisto: Print Labels on a recipe, a batch or a prep list prints the food's label from its recipe: ingredients by weight with the allergens in bold, the percentage of a named ingredient, net quantity, use by or best before with storage, your name and address, nutrition per 100 g and the lot, on a sheet of stickers or a label printer.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Prep quantities from expected demandCalisto: a prep list forecasts from the same weekday's past sales or from the covers booked.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Prep tasks assigned to named staffCalisto: each prep station of a prep list is given to a named person from the day's schedule, as a task in their My Work that they mark done; Today shows who has each station.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Stock | ||
| Stock levels and values across sitesCalisto: with Inventory. Stock, On Hand at each place.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Alert before an item drops below its minimumCalisto: with Inventory. Reorder points, and Low Stock on the first screen.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Waste tracked with its reasonCalisto: Food Cost, Waste, the same screen as Stock, Waste.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Batches for traceabilityCalisto: with Inventory. Stock, Batches.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Stock counted on a phone with barcode scanningCalisto: with Inventory. Counts, and Scan & Adjust, from the phone's Count door.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Stock counted by voiceCalisto: Count by Voice on the count sheet hears what the counter says against that count's lines, in any language, and records each entry once confirmed.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Stock moved between a central kitchen and outletsCalisto: with Inventory. Stock, Transfers.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Purchasing | ||
| Reorder to par, one purchase order per supplierCalisto: with Inventory. Purchasing, Reorder raises the orders for what is at or below its reorder point.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Supplier invoices matched to orders and deliveriesCalisto, with Ledger: a supplier bill's lines are read off the invoice or typed, and each is checked against its purchase order and the deliveries received, within your tolerances; a bill that differs waits until someone accepts the differences and says why, and Purchasing shows each order's bills.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Purchase orders from forecast salesCalisto: a prep list's shortfalls become a purchase order, with Inventory.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Food Safety | ||
| Food safety checks with limits and corrective actionsCalisto: with Assure. Routine Checks and Readings, and an out-of-range reading raises a finding.Checked Oct 26, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Apicbase
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Apicbase and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Apicbase can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Apicbase
Questions about switching
How do we bring our recipes over from Apicbase?
Recipes come in from a spreadsheet through Recipes, Import in Dine, each through the same checks as a recipe written by hand. Calisto has no direct Apicbase connector.
Does food cost follow the till?
Yes. Each dish sold takes its recipe from stock, and Food Cost compares actual and theoretical usage, with waste and pour variance beside it.
Where do the food-safety checks live?
Routine Checks holds the opening and closing checks, run from any phone, and Readings is the temperature log. They are Assure's checks, so a growing group keeps them as it adds sites.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.
- Food & BeverageCalisto for Restaurants
Calisto Pro eliminates service friction by keeping front-of-house pacing, kitchen timing, and inventory in total sync, so all your guests experience is flawless dining.
Open - PricingPricing for RestaurantsOpen
- Food & BeverageCalisto for Catering
Calisto Pro aligns event proposals, kitchen prep, transport logistics, and staffing into one quiet engine, setting an operational standard others can't replicate.
Open - CateringEvent Calendar & Kitchen Handoff
Date holds that expire on their own, capacity measured as kitchen hours, and a contract that writes the function sheet, the prep list, the reserve, and the roster.
Open - CateringRecipes, Staffing & Equipment
Two hundred covers resolved to grams, a team sized from the headcount, and a load list generated from the function sheet and reconciled after the event.
Open - PricingPricing for CateringOpen
- AppCalisto Dine
Restaurants, fine dining, catering and bars: reservations on shifts with deposits and no-show fees, the host stand and waitlist, the guest book, menus and modifiers, sold out, the kitchen display, recipes, food cost and prep lists.
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