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Operations management software for restaurants & foodservice

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CrunchTime - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

What is CrunchTime?

Crunchtime is how the world’s top restaurant brands achieve ops excellence in every location. Our software is used in over 100,000 locations in 100+ countries to manage inventory, staff scheduling, learning and development, food safety, operational tasks and audits.

Crunchtime enables customers including Chipotle, Culver’s, Domino’s, Dunkin’, Five Guys, and P.F. Chang's to control food and labor costs, and deliver great guest experiences.

The platform facilitates reporting with forecasting tools, inventory reports, performance analytics, and real-time business intelligence. The solution can integrate with third-party POS providers such as Oracle Micros, Toast, Par, NCR Aloha, and others for bi-direction data flow and automatic exports that synchronize data across platforms.

For more information, visit Crunchtime.com.

Benefits of using CrunchTime

Thorough location setup and management.
Establish each location with individual preferences and unique location-based regulations. This allows you to easily identify which restaurants are not performing well, losing money, or are not in compliance with their specific regulations. When you can quickly identify problems pertaining to individual locations you can make the necessary adjustments without prolonging any costly issues.

Full control over products and recipes.
Set product and recipe standards for all restaurants to follow. This allows you to maintain brand consistency by producing the same quality meal across all restaurants and reduces the risk of costly portion or quality variances between locations.

Easy purchasing information management.
Control vendors, products, and prices available to each restaurant. Centrally manage bids and contracts electronically with ‘apples-to-apples’ comparisons form vendors. Eliminate rogue spending from certain restaurants and maintain a tighter control of food costs. Optimize spending by getting the ideal price on all items from vendors.

Labor rule management.
Configure each restaurant’s labor management settings with rules aligned with the location’s local, state, and federal laws. Manage a large collection of restaurants in different towns, states, and countries and grow with confidence knowing that each restaurant can easily comply with its unique regulations.

Franchisee functionality.
With straightforward, logical setup specifications, CrunchTime enables any Franchisor and Franchisee operation to benefit from an all-in-one restaurant management back office platform. Connect all your restaurant franchisees to your back office system for a centralized management solution.

Easy and accurate inventory management.
Efficiently count your stock levels and manage quantities in a centralized database. The decisions you make based on inventory counts will be smarter and lead to better outcomes because they will be made with the most accurate and up-to-date information at your disposal

Actual vs theoretical food cost analysis.
Gain easy access to learn how much you’re actually spending on food and sort by size of variance to quickly identify the areas that require the most attention.

Suggested ordering. Simplify ordering at the store level with system-generated suggested ordering based on par levels, historical consumption patterns, sales forecasts, and on-hand inventory levels.

Smart forecasts for food prep.
Accurate forecasting lets you know how much food you should prepare in a given day.

Task lists and alerts.
Automatically create tasks and assign them to users. Receive alerts when tasks are due or incomplete.

Robust consolidated reporting.
Access real-time information from anywhere, on any device, across all restaurants.

Proven integrations and implementations.
CrunchTime integrates with all POS, accounting, HR and payroll systems. Expert project management implementations by real restaurant operators that understand your challenges.

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CrunchTime's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from CrunchTime users:

Point of Sale (POS)
Calendar Management
Cost Management
Third-Party Integrations
Real-time Scheduling
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Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Appointment Scheduling
Automated Scheduling
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Class Scheduling
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Cost Tracking
Customizable Reports
Demand Forecasting
Discount Management
Electronic Payments
Employee Database
Employee Management
Employee Scheduling
Facility Scheduling
Food & Beverage Management
Forecasting
Group Scheduling
Inventory Management
Inventory Tracking
Kitchen/Menu Management
Labor Cost Reporting
Labor Forecasting
Menu Planning
Messaging
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Nutrition & Allergen Management
Nutrition Analysis
Online Booking
Online Ordering
Online Time Clock
Order Management
Payroll Management
Performance Metrics
Promotions Management
Purchase Order Management
Purchasing & Receiving
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Updates
Recipe Management
Recruitment Management
Reporting & Statistics
Reporting/Analytics
Resource Scheduling
Schedule Distribution
Shift Swapping
Skills Tracking
Task Scheduling
Time Off Management
Time Off Requests
Timesheet Management
Vacation/Leave Tracking
Variable Workforce

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CrunchTime integrations (8)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 15 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as CrunchTime integrations, and what is the users perception.

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Netchex

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

This integration is vital because we need the information in crunchtime to be accurate in order to avoid any issues and inefficiencies later on when we process payroll.

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Mitch Bolkema

Senior Accountant

CrunchTime support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
Email/Help Desk
Phone Support
24/7 (Live rep)

Training options

Live Online
Webinars
In Person
Documentation
Videos

CrunchTime reviews

Overall rating

4.4

/5

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Rating breakdown
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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.31/10
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Pros
“Also, all the tools that are available to help you troubleshoot your inventory variances are amazing. Finally, their embedded help is hands down the best I have seen.”
“We love using this product to do our truck orders and input inventory great layout and easy to use.”
“What I like about crunch-time back office it is an easy and great way to keep track of your inventory and sales.”
Cons
“The inability to edit commissary orders after they have been reconciled, even though you can do that with vendor orders can be difficult if your business uses commissaries to supply their locations.”
“Unfortunately, there is no wiggle room or grey area to account for things like spills, or, for example, extra inventory that may be used that wasn't rung in or charged for an upcharge.”

CrunchTime FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does CrunchTime offer?

CrunchTime has the following pricing plans:
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Q. Who are the typical users of CrunchTime?

CrunchTime has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does CrunchTime support?

CrunchTime supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does CrunchTime support mobile devices?

CrunchTime supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does CrunchTime offer an API?

No, CrunchTime does not have an API available.


Q. What other apps does CrunchTime integrate with?

CrunchTime integrates with the following applications:
QuickBooks Enterprise, PDQ POS, Lightspeed Retail, Toast POS


Q. What level of support does CrunchTime offer?

CrunchTime offers the following support options:
Chat, Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)

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