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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...

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...

Wedged between a copy center and a pet store in a St. Louis strip mall, Sugarfire Smokehouse sprung from humble beginnings and big dreams. But when it came to sharing the magic of Missouri’s barbeque with the rest of America, location was only an address. Since 2012, co-owners Mike Johnson and Carolyn Downs led a delicious expedition through their favorite cities, leaving mouth-watering meals in their wake. Now, with 14 locations, Sugarfire Smokehouse has made light work of their big dream–“spreading the gospel of smoked meat across the nation.”

With high food costs, tight margins, and fluctuating demand in the wake of a pandemic, restaurants must present themselves as perfectly-balanced operations. Fortunately, Sugarfire Smokehouse knows the recipe for success calls for use of the best tools at hand. That’s where Craftable comes in. 

Craftable is the only platform that seamlessly connects purchasing, recipes, inventory, and sales with accounting to help operators like Sugarfire drive profit. Here’s what Charlie Downs, President and Managing Partner of Sugarfire Smokehouse, had to say about teaming up with Craftable: 

“Sugarfire Smokehouse uses Craftable to connect purchases from US Foods with our inventory, recipes, and sales. Craftable lets us identify variance with actual versus theoretical inventory and also allows us to see our labor in real-time. The insights Craftable provides allow us to drive decision making and improve our bottom line.”

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 messy...

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....