How Craftable and bartaco Achieved a 50% Reduction in Food Cost Variance
This beloved taco joint achieved a remarkable 50% reduction in food cost variance with Craftable, translating to $30,000+ saved weekly. About bartaco Heralding fresh ingredients and the business of fun, bartaco is more of a lifestyle than a restaurant to its fans who keep coming back for the constantly evolving menu - including [...]
Growing Your Check Average – A Dollar Here, A Dollar There
In most businesses, the almighty dollar rules the day. For restaurants, it’s all about the pennies. As the industry runs on tight margins and shifting external variables, fighting to secure steady profit is key for success. Growing your customer’s check average is one way [...]
The Complete Guide to Planning for Profit
Hospitality operators are well accustomed to adapting to the many hats they must wear. At once an owner, a chef, an accountant, a procurement specialist, a bartender, a hotelier, etc., many prize their agility above all else. However, this approach lends itself to only [...]
Reports & Data, So Much Data: Turn Your Numbers Into $$$
Today’s tech generates more data than ever before. This is crucial in understanding your business, saving time and growing profit! However, there is so much data available that operators occasionally spend more hours running reports than converting those insights into actions. Information can only [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]