
They have saved us hours and hours by streamlining the back-office.” “Craftable has helped with both controlling our cost of goods and improving purchasing behavior. Veronica Schuster, the Director of Hospitality at Sugarfire Smokehouse, had this to say about the time Craftable has saved: This allows operators to focus on the most important piece of hospitality – guest experience.
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Craftable’s goal is to drive up margins while lowering labor by automating manual processes of inventory, ordering and AP management. It’s not just money Craftable works to save operators, either. For our size company with 24 restaurants, it’s been really easy to implement and use.” We started using it a few months ago and already dropped 4.5% in food cost. “Craftable and US Foods has been wonderful. Of course, it’s easy to say something, but the proof is in the pudding (or, in this case, the “world’s best sandwich” Cuban Reuben. From forecasting your future to comparing sales with labor in real time using our new Heartbeat addition, Craftable works to unlock opportunities. With Analytics, every sale serves your business twice–once at the register, and once as detailed, digestible information, empowering operators to make better business decisions. Reporting is a baseline across all Craftable products, but our new Analytics tool takes it to the next level. Then wipe the drool off your chin and keep reading! If you doubt the importance of this mission, I invite you to check out Sugarfire’s menu descriptions for The Meat Daddy or a Pie Shake. If Sugarfire Smokehouse’s goal is to share delicious barbeque with the world, Craftable’s is to help them and others like them do just that, better than ever. Practical, powerful insights like this sit at the core of Craftable’s heart. The insights Craftable provides allow us to drive decision making and improve our bottom line.” Craftable lets us identify variance with actual versus theoretical inventory and also allows us to see our labor in real-time. “Sugarfire Smokehouse uses Craftable to connect purchases from US Foods with our inventory, recipes, and sales. Here’s what Charlie Downs, President and Managing Partner of Sugarfire Smokehouse, had to say about teaming up with Craftable: Our dream team of hospitality experts and Silicon Valley’s finest provide our best-in-class technology and return hours worked behind the scenes. That’s where Craftable comes in.Ĭraftable is the only platform that seamlessly connects purchasing, recipes, inventory, and sales with accounting to help operators drive profit. Fortunately, Sugarfire Smokehouse knows the recipe for success calls for use of the best tools at hand. With tight margins, fluctuating demand, and a global pandemic, restaurants must present themselves as perfectly-balanced operations. Anyone familiar with the hospitality industry would be quick to inform you it was likely the opposite. Now, with 14 locations, Sugarfire Smokehouse has made light work of their big dream–“spreading the gospel of smoked meat across the nation.” Since 2012, co-owners Mike Johnson and Carolyn Downs led a delicious expedition through their favorite cities, leaving mouth-watering meals in their wake. Of course, when it came to sharing the magic of Missouri’s barbeque with the rest of America, location was only an address.



Louis strip mall, Sugarfire Smokehouse sprung from humble beginnings and big dreams.

Wedged between a copy center and a pet store in a St.
