Owners and managers
Plan in minutes, not an hour
- Suggested bake per store from PAR, leftovers and orders
- Batch alerts that round up to full trays, never down
- Products, PARs and seasonal items managed in the app
- Every store's close status at a glance
For bakery owners, one store or several
The Bakery Desk plans the bake from your PAR levels and every order, puts the right list in front of your bakers at 3 a.m., closes each store the same way every night, and finds you new catering customers. One app on the phones and tablets you already have.
Built with, and running in, a two-store franchise bakery in Georgia.
Sound familiar?
Most of them happen on paper, in a spreadsheet only you understand, or in your head. That works until you are off for a day.
The plan is in my head.
PAR levels, leftovers and orders all have to be added up each night, by you, for every product.
The bakers found out at 3 a.m.
An order lands after you planned the day and nobody tells the oven until it is too late.
Orders come from everywhere.
ezCater, the website, the phone and email, each in its own place, so something always slips.
Closing depends on who is on.
Some nights everything gets done. Other nights you find out the next morning what did not.
We should do more catering.
Everyone agrees, and nobody has time to find the offices and schools nearby or follow up.
I can't step away.
Because the system is you. Every question comes back to the owner's phone.
A day with The Bakery Desk
The app does the adding up and the passing on. Your team taps through their part of the day, and you get told what happened.
The app suggests each product per store: PAR, minus what was left last night, plus every order due. Change any number with one tap, confirm, and the bake list is emailed to the bakery.
If anything changed overnight, a fresh bake list arrives before the bakers do, with the changes listed at the top.
Today's list in bake order, in batches, with early catering items flagged. Tap Done as each tray goes in. After the oven, the screen shows what goes to each store and which orders to set aside.
ezCater, website, phone, email and walk-in orders all arrive in the same place. A late order updates the bake list, and the bakers see exactly what changed and confirm it.
A one-page pack of local offices and schools to visit, call or drop a sample box to, printed for the back office and emailed to you.
Each closer gets their own checklist with a progress bar that never leaves the screen. Counts take seconds, anything skipped needs a reason, and you get a close report when the last box is ticked.
Built for the whole team
Staff sign in with a PIN, pick their store, and see only their part. Nobody needs training on a spreadsheet.
Owners and managers
Bakers
Closers
Front counter and phones
Getting told
One store or several
Grow catering
Catering marketplaces are useful, but every direct order keeps the whole margin. The Bakery Desk gives your team a short, local plan each week and handles the follow-up.
Fits around you
Getting started
Our first bakery went from first call to bakers using it in about two weeks. Close support for the first 30 days is included.
Pricing
No tiers to compare. Every bakery gets the full Bakery Desk, setup done for you, and support from a real person.
Each additional store $750.
Billed monthly.
Example: two stores = $3,245 setup, then $598 a month.
Custom features and extra training days are quoted separately. Prices in US dollars.
Questions
No. The Bakery Desk runs in the browser on the phones and tablets you have. Most bakeries keep one tablet open in the bakery and one at each counter.
You do. Your products, orders and counts live in your own Google account. We have access to run and support the app, and you can remove that access whenever you want.
No. Keep your till and keep ezCater. The Bakery Desk brings their orders into one plan and takes care of the bake, the close and the catering follow-up around them.
Setup needs a few hours from you across two weeks, mostly checking what we have loaded. After that, planning a day takes minutes, and the catering plan asks for a few hours a week from your team.
Every screen has a Help button. Staff report a problem in a few taps, and we reply within 2 business days. Anything stopping an order today is flagged to us straight away.
Yes. The plan, bake and close tools are built for a single bakery first. More stores simply add a column to the plan and a list to the close.
Yes. The monthly fee runs month to month with 30 days' notice, and your data stays in your Google account.
Book a walkthrough
Tell us a little about your bakery and we will set up a 20 minute call at a time that suits you. We reply within one business day.