CrunchTime - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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.