Six years watching great venues struggle with bad software. We got fed up and built something better.
It’s 11pm on Sunday. The doors are locked, the till’s counted, and you’re still doing the rota.
Works with your till, accounts and payments
“My partner and I haven’t had a Sunday evening off together since we opened.”
Co-owner, family restaurant (composite)
“I’m paying a booking site every time someone sits down in my own restaurant.”
Chef-owner, independent restaurant (composite)
“The owner texts at eight asking how last night went. I’m still adding it up.”
General manager, city-centre restaurant (composite)
Sound familiar?
A normal week in hospitality.
- Sunday, 11.04pmThe rota still isn’t done. You’re guessing the wage bill again.
- Monday, 8.52amFive logins before nine. Bookings, rota, till, temperatures, email.
- Tuesday, 11amThe inspector’s at the door asking for last week’s fridge temperatures.
- Wednesday, 3pmYour best-seller has been quietly under GP since the supplier put the price up.
- Friday, 12.40amCash-up’s £38 short and nobody knows why.
- Saturday, 7.30pmTwo tables of eight. Neither shows. No deposit on either.
- Some time in MarchThe regular who came in every Friday stopped coming. Nobody noticed.
You didn’t open a venue to do admin at midnight.
Every one of those costs you something. An evening. A night’s margin. Your nerve. A good regular.
Here’s the fix
Watch a night close in Crumbs.
Bookings, guest notes, the rota and the cash-up, in the same portal your team uses.
Monday, 8.52am
Five logins before nine? One will do.
Bookings, rotas, cash-up, temperature checks, menu costs and your regulars, in one login on your phone and your team’s. Here’s that week again, with Crumbs.
Sunday, 11pm
The rota still isn’t done.
What it costs you
An hour every Sunday is a week a year. And you only find out the wage bill was too high when payday comes round.
With Crumbs
Build the rota in one place and see 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.
- Wage cost as you build
- Shifts on staff phones
- Timesheets out as a payroll CSV
Build the week
Tap a shift to add or remove it.
Wage cost, Thu to Sun
£1,534
£166 under your cap.
Sample staff and rates. Cap set to £1,700 for these four days.
Built for whoever locks up.
Small independents are who we built it for. Find yourself here.
Café
The Sunday rota with the wage bill as you build it, loyalty stamps, and the regulars who come in every morning.
Restaurant
Covers, deposits for the big tables, GP on every dish and allergens straight from the ingredients.
Bar
Group deposits, tight late rotas, and a short till flagged before the glasswasher’s done.
Hotel
Restaurant bookings, team rotas and compliance records in one place, on everyone’s phone.
Nightclub
Table bookings with deposits, late rotas against a cost cap, and cash-up checked the same night.
Members club
Every member’s name, notes and visit history, in every team member’s pocket.
Meet Kit. Your unfair advantage.
Kit keeps an eye on the things that slip when you’re flat out, and tells you before they cost you.
Friday 9 October
23:41
- Crumbs · Kit nowCash-up flagged. The drawer is £38.50 short against expected takings.
- Crumbs · Kit 2m agoWalk-in fridge logged at 8.4°C, outside the safe range. Log the action taken.
- Crumbs · Kit 18m agoTwo tables of 8 tomorrow. One deposit is still unpaid.
Your morning briefing
Yesterday’s covers and sales, best and worst sellers, and who’s on today. Waiting in the app before you open.
Reviews, drafted
A heads-up when a bad review lands, and a reply drafted for you to check and post.
No-shows and deposits, chased
Kit chases the no-shows and the unpaid deposits, so you’re not ringing round on a Saturday.
Regulars, brought back
Win-back nudges for the regulars who’ve gone quiet, before they’re gone for good.
The things that slip, flagged
A gap in the rota. A dish under its margin. A supplier price rise. A short or missing cash-up. A certificate about to run out. You hear about it when it happens, not a month later.
Why we built Crumbs
Six years on the floor watching venues held back by tools that were never built for them. We built the thing that didn’t exist.
Six years of watching great venues struggle with bad software. We got fed up and built something better.
We’ve been on the floor. We know what it’s actually like.
- Oliver Keane
- Seif Koura
Sheffield, UK and Brisbane, Australia.
Fair questions
The honest answers.
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.
My rota app works fine.
Keep it if it does. Crumbs shows the wage cost while you build the rota, so you are not doing the sums afterwards.
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. We’ll confirm the work and timing for your venue on the demo.
My team won’t learn another app.
If it replaces three, there are fewer to learn. Mostly your staff check their shifts and ask for swaps on their phone.
We’re too small.
Priced per venue, with unlimited staff on every plan. Small independents are exactly who we built it for.
Will it work with my till?
Square, Epos Now and Syrve connect today. Tell us yours and we’ll check it before the call and tell you straight.
Your costs, made clear
From £249 a month, per venue.
No cover fees, ever. The same whether you do ten covers or a thousand.
- Priced per venue, not per booking
- Unlimited staff on every plan
- Cancel any month
- We set it up with you
Get your evenings back.
Twenty minutes with someone who has worked a floor. Bring your own rota or a dish, and we’ll show you what it looks like in Crumbs. No hard sell.