Crunchtime: AI for restaurants

Operations management suite used by multi-unit restaurant brands to manage store operations and profitability.

F&B, inventory & food costShift handover & opsRestaurants

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How to roll out Crunchtime: f&b, inventory & food cost playbook

A vendor-neutral rollout plan for adopting a f&b, inventory & food cost tool like Crunchtime. It also covers: Shift handover & ops.

  1. Start with invoices: get every distributor invoice into the tool (email forwarding or photos) for 30 days.
  2. Map your top 30–50 items by spend; ignore the long tail at first.
  3. Build recipe/plate costs for your top-selling items and set target food-cost %.
  4. Turn on price-change alerts and review them weekly with the chef or F&B director.
  5. Add waste tracking or prep forecasting only once invoice data is reliable.
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