Compeat, with Ctuit Radar vs. CrunchTime!

Compeat is very well suited for large, sit down dining restaurants and can be too much for smaller scale establishments.

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CrunchTime! is well suited for non-franchised restaurant brands. When you have control of the end-user it makes deployment and use much easier. It is less suited for franchised restaurants because of the inability for the franchiser to require its use. Without end-user interaction some data points are not available. Some of the recent changes in the software have addressed this.

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• Makes recipe costs easy to analyze and track
• Menu engineering
• Purchasing and purchase order creation

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• The integration to our Vendors is well done allow us to place orders and monitor vendors for contract compliance.
• The integration to our POS was simple which allows us to easily exchange data.
• There update cadence is short and they are always releasing system improvements.

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• Event Managment: tracking catering sales. Ctuit is building a better platform for this area.

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• Until recently we were unable to get accurate data from franchisees that are unwilling to use the product. That is changing with some new feature releases.

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For now, I can tell that Restaurant365 has a better platform and online access, but the Inventory side is what keeps us with Compeat. As is Compeat we can use the machine to scan our inventory and upload it automatically to the system. Unfortunately, Restaurant365 does not have this feature and that why we do not plan to change it for now.

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We selected CrunchTime! many years ago because they were a relatively small company with a good product. We have grown with them. We have looked at competitors over the years and have not found a company that we would consider switching to.

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• Return lacked as initial year investment took much longer to build than their estimates were given
• other issues with ROI are getting reports from our data that was built is difficult due to the limitations of their reports function
• NO INTeGRATION DIRECT WITH ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE. EVERYTHING IS MANUAL PUSH. ALL OTHER GROUPS IN INDUSTRY USE AUTO IMPORT APPS to simplify.

• The software has allowed us to maintain consistency of our products while helping to keep food cost down.
• The software has allowed us to maintain quality and determine which stores are not properly executing our recipes which allows us to do customized training.

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