Fortune’s Fortune: Sales Forecasting 101
Imagine a shining crystal ball sitting on a table before you. In it, you can see the future. You see the exact number of ingredients you need to order, the dishes that customers will order most, how this year will compare to the last, and the profit your restaurant will earn. Imagine how much better you could [...]
Honky Tonk Rocks and Rolls Its Way into 80% Variance Reduction
Whether it's dancing on the Cruise Rooftop at FGL House, hearing an edgy country band at Jason Aldean's Kitchen + Rooftop Bar, snapping a picture under the aerial hanging truck at Luke's 32 Bridge, or enjoying the "glitz and glam" at Miranda Lambert's Casa [...]
Sugarfire Smokehouse + Craftable Lower Costs & Spread the BBQ Gospel
Wedged between a copy center and a pet store in a St. Louis strip mall, Sugarfire Smokehouse sprung from humble beginnings and big dreams. Of course, when it came to sharing the magic of Missouri’s barbeque with the rest of America, location was only [...]
Suppliers: Friend or Foe? Reassess Your Supplier Network
It's a new year, full of new opportunities and challenges. Among your life-improving resolutions to lose weight, learn Spanish, and take up meditation, you can add reassessing your supplier network. Time to see who was naughty and who was nice in 2022. Firstly, you [...]
Top 5 Purchasing Strategies to Save with Suppliers
Tis the season! For many of us, this is the busiest time of year heading into the slowest sales season. Now is the time to capitalize on profits and prepare to tighten our belts by bolstering your purchasing systems. Use these strategies to finish [...]
The Tipping Point: The Tip System Shift
In a world where there is little that packs a punch like a powerful metaphor, allow us to offer you one–your restaurant as a determined, stubborn ship atop a giant, terrible sea. Imagine the oncoming waves as shifting prices and availability. Brewing storms take [...]
Craftable Joins the Intuit QuickBooks Solution Provider Program
DALLAS, Texas – Craftable, the profit management software for hospitality operators announced today that they are a member of the Intuit QuickBooks Solution Provider Program and listed in the QuickBooks App Store. Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) is the global financial technology platform that makes TurboTax, [...]
Takeout & Delivery Trends: From Alcohol to Sustainability
Sitting in their homes over the last two years, troubleshooting Zoom calls, rewatching old movies, and binge watching new shows, Americans fell in love with the ease of takeout. The world threatened to shrink; so, rather than commit to an eternity of only pizza [...]
Square + Craftable Help Manage Operating Costs
Entrepreneurs Joe Correia and John Dantzler had been brewing beer in the Bronx for more than a decade when they decided to expand their operation into a 9,000-square-foot space in lower Manhattan. The original opening date was delayed because of the coronavirus, but in [...]
How to Manage Inventory and Minimize Labor Time
Here’s the truth laid bare, free of polite underselling or writerly flourishes–taking inventory sucks. Though inventory best practices tell us that operators should aim to accomplish this dreaded task at least once a week, many report doing so as infrequently as one or two [...]
The Post-Pandemic Menu: The Lean, Mean, Profit Machine
The threads of influence that began unspooling in the early part of 2020 have wound their way through every crack and crevice of daily life, securing an often messy knot around individuals and industries alike. Whether you were a people person missing the first [...]
Integration 101: The Cherry on Top of Restaurant Technology
The use of technology in restaurants is increasing more rapidly than ever before. From QR codes to online ordering, inventory management to a giant robotic arm that fries wings, creativity and innovation sit squarely in the center of developing solutions. Facing a post-pandemic world [...]
Menu Engineering: How to Redesign Your Profits
Those in the know (or those who have read our Menu Engineering 101 blog) have tucked menu engineering into their back pockets as a profit-increasing tactic. However, knowing about menu engineering and effectively practicing it are two different things. Rather than allow your data [...]