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Expert Insights to Support Hospitality Procurement, Ops, & Finance

Discover real strategies from hotel and restaurant pros who've been in the weeds. Explore Craftable's blog for actionable advice around procurement optimization, operational intelligence, and financial control.

Top 5 Purchasing Strategies to Save with Suppliers

Tis the season! For many of us, Q4 is the busiest time of year heading into the slowest sales season in January. Now is the time to capitalize on profits and pr...

The Tipping Point: The Tip System Shift

Your restaurant as a determined, stubborn ship atop a giant, terrible sea. Imagine the oncoming waves as shifting prices and availability. Brewing storms take o...

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...

Torch & Crown Reduced Food & Bev Costs with Craftable + Square

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-s...

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 s...

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 m...

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 ...

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. How...

The AI Restaurant Operator: Innovation vs. Tradition

It’s lunchtime. You approach a set of glass doors and they swing open before you reach for the handles. The host stand is empty, but a kind, slightly stiff voic...

Menu Engineering 101: The Sales-Boosting Basics

Imagine mixing a dash of data, a sprinkle of mathematics, and just a pinch of psychology to produce the scientifically flawless menu. If you’re having a hard ti...

POS 101: From Bread and Butter to Profits and Paydays

The modern business operator (that’s you!) must decode an ever-shifting landscape of digital alphabet soup. There’s a parade of acronyms, each one heralde...

Craftable to Exhibit at the National Restaurant Association Show and Announces Integration with Square

DALLAS, Texas – May 17th, 2022 — Craftable is honored to be exhibiting at the National Restaurant Association Show taking […]