Price Comparison
Real-Time Food Price Comparison — See Every Vendor’s Price, Instantly
Distributors count on the fact that you don’t have time to check every price on every order. That’s exactly why prices creep up, and why profits quietly shrink, order after order.
Genius fixes that with real-time food price comparison, automatically checking every vendor’s price on every line item, every time you place an order.
✅ Line-item price comparisons across all your vendors
✅ Real-time vendor pricing, updated automatically
✅ Compare by any unit (lb, gal, each, case, and more)
Line-by-line
Every item, every order, compared
All vendors
The ones you use, plus new ones
Real time
Live prices, not last month’s
Stop guessing
You Don’t Need Better Vendors — You Need Price Transparency.
Genius is a multi-vendor purchasing platform that works with the vendors you already use — plus any new suppliers you want to test. Instead of switching distributors to chase a better deal, you get automatic, transparent restaurant food pricing on every order from every vendor.
No new relationships. No new workflows. Just visibility into what you’re actually being charged, item by item.
- Automatic comparison across all your vendors
- Keep your current relationships, no switching
- New vendors added the moment you want to test them
Stop negotiating
Stop Negotiating. Start Comparing.
Negotiating with your food reps rarely pays off; prices shift constantly, and reps quietly raise costs on the items they know you’re not watching.
Genius replaces the guesswork with a restaurant purchasing price transparency tool that shops every order for you. You get:
- Confidence that you’re always ordering from the vendor with the best price — no stress, no back-and-forth
- An end to one-sided pricing games
- Automatic detection of price increases, item by item
We didn’t realize how much we were overpaying until we saw the comparison data. This improved our bottom line more than we could have ever imagined.
Sam V.
Owner, Coastal Kitchen
Stop guessing
One Platform, Every Vendor, Every Price
Price comparison is just the starting point. Genius connects real-time vendor pricing directly to your inventory system, recipe costing calculator, and purchasing workflow, so every decision you make is backed by current data, not last month’s invoice.
- Compare vendor prices across your entire supplier list
- See pricing updates in real time as vendors change costs
- Feed accurate, live pricing into recipe costing and inventory automatically
Genius is built to give you control over food costs, not just visibility into pricing.
Genius vs. Legacy Software vs. Manual Tracking
| Feature | Manual Tracking | Legacy Software (MarketMan, xtraCHEF, etc.) | Genius |
| Requires manual spreadsheets | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| Live, real-time vendor pricing | No | Limited | Yes |
| Automatic price-increase alerts | No | No | Yes |
| Compare prices across all vendors, live | No | No | Yes |
| Unit-normalized comparison (lb, case, each) | No | Partial | Yes |
Questions
No contracts, no catch.
How does real-time food price comparison work?
Genius pulls current pricing from all of your connected vendors and compares it line by line, unit by unit, so you always see which supplier has the best price on every item before you order.
Do I have to switch food distributors to use Genius?
No. Genius is built to work with the vendors you already have. You can also add new vendors any time to compare more options — you’re never locked into a single supplier.
Can I compare prices across different units of measure?
Yes. Genius compares pricing by lb, gallon, each, case, or any unit your vendors use, so you’re comparing true apples-to-apples pricing, not mismatched packaging.
How much can I expect to save with vendor price comparison?
Most restaurants using Genius save 10% or more on food spend — with the same vendors, same products, and no extra work.
Proof before you commit
See what you would save before you commit.
We run Genius against your real orders and show you every dollar it finds, in writing, before you decide anything.