Bringing Allergen Intelligence to Restaurant Operations via Crunchtime

If you are one of the 850+ restaurant brands running operations on Crunchtime — the platform trusted by Chipotle, Five Guys, Jersey Mike's, Texas Roadhouse, and Wingstop across more than 150,000 locations worldwide — you'll be excited to learn that Foodini can pull the recipe and product data from your Crunchtime setup to offer a layer of dietary intelligence and allergen compliance over your inventory, recipe, and operations management workflows, enabling restaurant operators like you to maintain allergen accuracy as menus evolve, costs shift, and suppliers change.

The Problem This Solves

Crunchtime sits at the operational core of some of the most sophisticated multi-unit restaurant brands in the world — managing inventory, labour scheduling, kitchen execution, operations audits, and learning and development across every location in a single suite. The recipe and inventory data living inside Crunchtime is granular, current, and actively maintained by operations teams every day.

But that data has never had a mechanism to surface allergen information at the guest-facing or staff-facing level. A new sauce supplier is onboarded, a prep method is updated, a seasonal item is added — and the allergen record a guest might rely on falls out of sync with no automatic correction.

For restaurants operating in California under SB 68 — which requires written allergen disclosure on menus and goes into full enforcement on 1 July 2026 — that data gap carries real legal risk. The same exposure is emerging in Maryland (HB181), New York, Michigan, and Virginia, as state-by-state legislation accelerates across the country.

Foodini closes this gap by treating Crunchtime's recipe and inventory data as the single source of truth for ingredient information, then automatically surfacing allergen tags through Foodini's AI engine — whether that output goes to a digital menu, a staff-facing allergen guide, or a compliance report.

What Foodini Enables

When your operations team updates a recipe in Crunchtime — adjusting a prep method, swapping an ingredient for a lower-cost alternative, or onboarding a new supplier — Foodini's allergen layer is updated to reflect those changes. Staff no longer need to manually cross-reference ingredient lists or rely on allergen cards that may not reflect last week's menu change. Guests with food allergies or dietary restrictions receive accurate, up-to-date information at the point of ordering.

For multi-unit brands — which is precisely the customer Crunchtime is built for — this means allergen data can be governed centrally and deployed consistently across every location simultaneously. A location in Dallas and one in Boston will surface identical, compliant allergen information to their guests, even if they operate under different franchise groups or management teams.

Foodini's data shows that 54% of allergic incidents in restaurants occur after staff have already been notified of a guest's allergy — not because staff were untrained, but because they were working from inaccurate or outdated ingredient information. Crunchtime's operational discipline reduces food cost variance and labour inefficiency. Foodini extends that discipline to allergen accuracy — addressing the root cause of most allergen incidents rather than the symptom.

The Scale of the Opportunity

173 million Americans have a food allergy or dietary need. 33 million have a clinically diagnosed food allergy. These guests represent an enormous and underserved market: they are loyal to restaurants that accommodate them safely, and they are actively avoiding restaurants that cannot.

Crunchtime's reach — 850+ brands, 150,000+ locations — means connecting allergen intelligence to your operations data has the potential to change allergen management practice at a scale no other platform combination can match.