Ratatool

What Ratatool does

Ratatool is a cloud-based SaaS application operated by TEDIBYTE SAS, a privately held French société par actions simplifiée headquartered at 18 rue Ernest Cresson, 75014 Paris. The platform is purpose-built for food service professionals and centralizes the digitalization of recipe technical sheets (fiches techniques), ingredient costing, supplier order generation, inventory and stock management, production planning, menu composition, and regulatory-grade nutrition and allergen labeling aligned with French INCO rules and the official ANSES allergen list. The product is delivered as a browser-based web application with native mobile and tablet clients and is built on DigitalOcean infrastructure with Stripe handling subscription billing.

The company serves five explicitly identified customer verticals: full-service restaurants and bistros (primary), bakeries and patisseries, caterers, hotel restaurants, and dark/cloud kitchens. Its go-to-market is product-led and self-serve: a freemium trial (limited to 4 recipes and 15 ingredients, no credit card required) feeds into two paid subscription tiers — a Standard plan at €24/month and a Premium plan at €41/month on annual billing — with multi-site collaboration and role-based permissions available on the higher tier. Distribution is exclusively digital via direct SaaS sign-up at fr.ratatool.com (and an English-language counterpart at ratatool.com) with no resellers or marketplace listings.

The firm reports 1–10 employees, was founded in 2018, and shows no external funding, acquisitions, or parent-company relationships in the source data. Marketing is content-driven, anchored on an educational blog covering restaurant margins, recipe costing, and fiche-technique best practices (article view counts of 60K–82K+ per piece), used as a top-of-funnel SEO engine feeding the self-serve funnel.

Name

Ratatool

Legal name

TEDIBYTE SAS

Website

https://fr.ratatool.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ratatool is a cloud-based SaaS (operated by TEDIBYTE SAS, Paris) that helps restaurant professionals digitalize recipe technical sheets, food costing, supplier orders, inventory, production planning, and INCO/ANSES-compliant nutrition and allergen labeling for restaurants, bakeries, caterers, hotel restaurants, and dark kitchens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription - Standard Plan: Monthly or annual subscription providing essential recipe costing and technical sheet features. Includes up to 2 menus/cards, recipe management, and basic exports.
2. SaaS Subscription - Premium Plan: Full-featured monthly or annual subscription including production planning, menus, quotes, supplier orders, inventory management, multi-site support, and enhanced collaboration features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Ratatool is a cloud-based SaaS web application that helps catering and food service professionals manage their daily operations through digital recipe technical sheets (fiches techniques), ingredient and supplier management, food cost analysis, supplier ordering, stock and inventory tracking, production planning, menu composition, and INCO-compliant nutrition and allergen labeling. The platform is offered on a self-serve subscription basis (€24/month Standard and €41/month Premium with annual billing) plus a limited free trial, targeting restaurants, bakeries, caterers, hotel restaurants, and dark kitchens across Europe.

Product overview

Ratatool is a unified cloud-based restaurant management software platform designed for food service professionals including restaurants, bakeries, caterers, hotels, and dark kitchens. The platform consists of a core product with tiered subscription plans (ESSAI trial, STANDARD, and PREMIUM) that provide recipe management, ingredient costing, supplier ordering, inventory management, production planning, menu creation, allergen tracking, and nutritional labeling capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ratatool Cloud Restaurant Management Platform Cloud-based restaurant management software providing recipe technical sheets (fiches techniques), ingredient and supplier management, food cost analysis, supplier orders, stock and inventory management, production planning, menu management, allergen tracking, and INCO-compliant nutritional label generation. Built for food service professionals including restaurants, bakeries, caterers, hotel restaurants, and dark kitchens, accessible via web, mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• Ratatool STANDARD Subscription Entry-level paid subscription at €24/month (annual billing) providing essential recipe cost management and technical sheet features with up to 2 menus/cards, for small food service businesses seeking core costing capabilities.
• Ratatool PREMIUM Subscription Full-featured subscription at €41/month (annual billing) including production planning, menus, quotes, supplier orders, nutrition tracking, inventory management, multi-site management, and team collaboration with priority support, for food service operations needing end-to-end functionality.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe provides secure payment processing infrastructure for subscription billing. Payments are managed through Stripe's secured tunnels with no local storage of payment data. Stripe handles credit card transactions (Visa, Amex, Mastercard) for monthly and annual subscriptions.
• DigitalOceancoreTechnology or IntegrationDigitalOcean provides cloud hosting infrastructure for the Ratatool platform. DigitalOcean LLC serves as the hosting provider for the service accessible at fr.ratatool.com.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• meez: US-based culinary operations platform providing recipe costing, prep guides, and training tools for professional kitchens. Directly comparable to Ratatool in the recipe management and food cost analysis niche.
• MarketMan: Restaurant inventory management and food cost platform serving SMB restaurants with supplier ordering, recipe costing, and operational analytics - competing in the same back-of-house category as Ratatool.
• Apicbase: Food cost management and recipe software for restaurants and hospitality groups, with multi-site support and menu engineering capabilities - matching Ratatool's positioning for SMB and multi-unit operators.
• ReciPal: Recipe costing and nutrition labeling software with food industry compliance features - overlapping with Ratatool's nutrition and allergen labeling capabilities for food businesses.
• FoodMeUp: French recipe costing and food cost management platform for restaurants - a direct French market competitor serving the same customer base as Ratatool.
• BlueCart (now Cut+Dry): Restaurant ordering, inventory, and recipe costing platform focused on supplier management and back-of-house operations - a comparable SMB foodservice software offering.
• Galley Solutions: Recipe costing and menu management software for foodservice operators with nutrition analysis and production planning features - directly comparable to Ratatool's core offering for restaurants and caterers.

Regional players

• CookIt: French consumer meal-kit service that operates in the broader French food technology space where Ratatool competes for category attention and French operator mindshare.

Broad incumbents

• Toast: Major restaurant POS and management platform that increasingly bundles recipe costing and inventory features - competing with Ratatool from a much broader platform position with deep venture funding.
• Lightspeed Restaurant: Restaurant POS and operations platform serving SMB and enterprise foodservice with integrated inventory and reporting that compete with Ratatool's standalone capabilities from an incumbent base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ratatoolRecipe

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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