Cut+Dry app cuts restaurant supplier ordering time by 50%

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ut+Dry has launched an ordering and payments platform that allows restaurants to order any product from any supplier, pay any business via bank transfer or credit card, and earn cash rewards directly from manufacturers.

Early users include Los Angeles-based Massis Kabob and San Francisco Bay Area favourites Burma Superstar, Trick Dog and Coupa Café, which reports cutting ordering time in half, saving thousands per year in labour hours.

The average restaurant orders from between four and eight unique suppliers, often daily. This time-consuming multi-step process on a per supplier basis involves ordering, receiving, coding, expense tracking and accounting, which is spread across various staff members resulting in miscommunication, errors and food waste. Multiple locations only further complicate the ordering task for those responsible.

Cut+Dry’s Order feature brings greater transparency and efficiency to the cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone supplier ordering process by digitising what has been previously managed by spreadsheets, clipboards, phone, text or fax. The app provides a permanent digital ordering record, allowing teams to efficiently submit orders, check-in deliveries, chat with supplier sales representatives, scan invoices, request credits, reconcile with accounting, and track price fluctuations.

Coupa Café, a rapidly growing fast-casual coffee and bakery-cafe chain in the heart of Silicon Valley, found itself overwhelmed by the overhead of ordering for its eight locations. Co-owner Jean Paul Coupal partnered with Cut+Dry to streamline operations.

“I’m in Silicon Valley, a stone’s throw away from Stanford University, and I’ve got 15 people ordering supplies the same way that my grandfather would have ordered stuff. I knew there must be a better way,” said Coupal.

In addition to providing an easier ordering process, Cut+Dry’s Pay feature allows restaurants to pay any invoice via ACH or credit card, even where cards are not accepted.