Crumbs for cafés
Still doing the café rota at 11pm on a Sunday?
Build the rota with the wage bill showing, cash up against what the till took, log the fridge checks on your phone and know your regulars. One login for the whole café, so the admin stops eating your evenings.
Sound familiar?
On the machine at seven. On the admin at eleven.
Owner operators with a small team, a queue at eight and a regular who has the same oat flat white every morning. A wet weekend can wipe out the month.
- Monday, 6.10amSomeone’s called in sick before the rush, and the new starter has never opened.
- Wednesday, 2pmMilk and beans went up again. The price of a flat white didn’t.
- Friday, 4.30pmClosed at four. Still at the counter with the till roll and a calculator.
- Sunday, 11pmThe rota still isn’t done, and you’re guessing the wage bill again.
You opened a café to make good coffee, not to do sums at midnight.
Rotas and the wage bill
What if you knew the wage bill before the week started?
Build the week in one place and watch the wage cost for each day and the week as you go, against a weekly cap you set. Publish it and it’s on everyone’s phone. Swaps come to you to approve, not to the group chat.
- Wage cost for each day as you build
- Unlimited staff, so a new starter costs nothing extra
- Timesheet hours out as a payroll CSV
What changes with Crumbs
The rest of the week, fixed.
Friday, 4.30pm
£20 out at close. Count it again?
What it costs you
A short till you can’t explain costs you money and trust, every week it happens.
With Crumbs
Count the cash and card against expected takings at close. Anything more than £5 out is flagged as short or over that night, and if nobody cashes up, Kit flags that too.
- Counted against expected
- Flagged the same night
- Missed cash ups flagged
Honest answers
What café owners ask us first.
- “We’re too small for this.”
Plans are priced per venue, with unlimited staff. Small independents are exactly who we built it for. A coffee machine and a team of ten is who we had in mind.
- “My team won’t learn another app.”
If it replaces three, there are fewer to learn. Most of your team will only ever check their shifts and ask for swaps, on their phone.
- “I don’t have time to set it up.”
We set it up with you. Most of it is us bringing in your staff and your menu, and we aim to have you running within a week.
- “Will it work with my till?”
Square, Epos Now and Syrve connect today. Others are on the way. Tell us yours and we’ll check it before the call and tell you straight.
Close at four. Go home at four.
The rota spreadsheet, the group chat, the paper loyalty cards, the temperature clipboard and the cash up notebook. One login instead.
From £249 a month per venue. No cover fees, unlimited staff.
Twenty minutes with someone who has worked a floor. Bring your rota or a dish you want costed. No hard sell.