Crumbs for restaurants
Still losing Saturday tables to no shows and cover fees?
Deposits on the big tables, reminders before every booking, menu costing against your GP target and a rota with the wage bill as you build. One login and one flat monthly fee, with no cover fees, ever.
Sound familiar?
You run the pass, the floor or both. Then the books after close.
Chef owners, family restaurants and the GM holding it all together. Full Saturdays, thin Tuesdays, and the owner asking for last night’s numbers before you’ve had a coffee.
- Tuesday, 3pmThe lamb went up again. Your best seller hasn’t been costed since spring.
- Thursday, 11amThe inspector wants last week’s fridge temperatures. They’re on a clipboard in the cool room.
- Saturday, 7.30pmTwo tables of eight. Neither shows. No deposit on either.
- Sunday, 11pmThe rota’s done. You’ll find out what it cost on payday.
You opened a restaurant to cook, not to chase paperwork.
Bookings and deposits
What if the table of eight had paid a deposit?
Take a deposit or a card hold on group bookings, through your own Stripe account. Reminders go out 24 hours and 2 hours before, a waitlist fills the cancellations, and Kit chases unpaid deposits and no shows. Phone and walk in bookings land in the same diary.
- Deposits or card holds for groups
- Reminders 24 hours and 2 hours before
- No cover fees and no per booking charges
What changes with Crumbs
The rest of the week, fixed.
Tuesday, 3pm
Your best seller might be your worst earner.
What it costs you
Supplier prices creep up. The menu price doesn’t. Every plate gives a little margin back, and you find out at the year end.
With Crumbs
Cost every dish from its ingredients and set a GP target. Dishes drifting below it are flagged, and when you record a supplier price rise, Kit tells you about the low margin dishes. Allergens roll up from the ingredients, all 14.
- GP target on every dish
- Drifting dishes flagged
- 14 allergens
Honest answers
What restaurant owners ask us first.
- “My booking system is fine.”
If it works, fair enough. Look at what you paid per cover in your busiest month. Crumbs is one flat monthly fee per venue, with no cover fees and no per booking charges.
- “We’re a family place, not a tech place.”
We set it up with you, and with whoever in the family wants to be there. The bookings, the notes and the rota are on a phone. Nobody has to become a tech person.
- “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.
- “I can’t afford another subscription.”
Bring the bills for the apps you use now and we’ll add them up on the call. If Crumbs doesn’t replace enough of them to be worth it, we’ll tell you.
Spend Saturday on the pass, not in six tabs.
The booking system you pay per cover, the rota spreadsheet, the costing sheet you haven’t opened since spring, the temperature clipboard and the guest notes in someone’s head. 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.