Crunchtime Kitchen

• Large casual-dining and quick-service chains

  The vendor says it is used in 21 of the 25 largest US casual-dining chains and has been used by large restaurant brands for over 30 years.

• Chains that want one vendor for kitchen, inventory and labour

  Sits alongside Crunchtime's inventory, scheduling and operations-execution products, which share data.

• Kitchen display and order routing

  Customisable routing, pacing and prep stations; the vendor says orders are load-balanced by station capacity.

• Bin management and forecasting

  Projection tool that reminds staff what to cook, when and how much, while tracking usage.

• Order-ready boards

  Expo screens showing customer name, status or order number, with an SMS to the guest when food is ready.

• POS integrations

  The vendor says it connects to over 80 point-of-sale systems.

• Guest journey integrations

  Connects with Olo, Flybuy, Smart Bar USA and Curbit for online orders, bar and curbside pickup.

• Kitchen display hardware

  Rugged all-in-one displays, controllers, touchscreens and bump bars from Elo, HP and Kitchen Armor.

• Crunchtime Host (sold alongside)

  Host-stand and waitlist tool that uses kitchen status to quote waits and sends two-way SMS to guests.

Pricing model

Quote only

No prices are published; the site offers a personalised demo. Crunchtime's support policy refers to SaaS fees but gives no amounts.

Compared with the 9 products in Kitchen Display System that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 22 integrations. The median in this category is 10.
• One of 3 products in this category with an Android app. 7 products in this category state their platforms.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Uber Eats, DoorDash, Focus, Lightspeed K-Series, Aloha, Olo, Qu, SevenRooms, Micros Simphony, SpotOn. Of these, this product's listing names Focus, Lightspeed K-Series, Aloha, Olo, Qu, Micros Simphony, SpotOn.

Other

OloFlybuyCurbitSmart Bar USA

Point of sale

ToastSimphonyAlohaPAR POSPixelPointRevelQuSpotOn RestaurantLightspeed K-SeriesCakeGoTabTabitZonal AztecSquirrel POSFocus POSPOSiTouchGenius for RestaurantsAppetize

Certified POS list on the vendor page has many more entries than are shown here; the vendor says it exceeds 80 POS partners.

Platforms

Web, Windows, Android

Hardware

Runs on kitchen display hardware sold by Crunchtime: Elo Android and Windows all-in-ones, Kitchen Armor all-in-ones, HP controllers and touchscreens, plus bump bars.

Crunchtime says its whole customer base spans over 100 countries after the merger; no country list is published for Kitchen alone. It lists offices in the US, Mexico, the UK and Australia.

Company

Crunchtime Information Systems, Inc.

Headquarters

Boston, United States

Other offices

Atlanta, Louisville, Nashua, Guadalajara, Watford, London, Port Melbourne

Founders

Bill Bellissimo

Customers named by the vendor

Chili's Bar and Grill, The Cheesecake Factory, Dave's Hot Chicken, Darden, Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers, Caribou Coffee, Cotton Patch Cafe

Security and compliance

SOC 2 Type II audits for all products; SOC 1 Type II for Inventory and Labor, HTTPS, multifactor authentication and encryption in transit and at rest

Support

Support 24 hours a day, 5 days a week in US time zones, with 24/7 monitoring for urgent cases; a knowledge base is available.

Vendor

Crunchtime

Built for

Restaurants

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

crunchtime.com

Also listed in

Equipment Monitoring & Maintenance

• Fresh KDS

  Fresh KDS is a kitchen display system that runs on iOS and Android tablets and shows POS orders on screens in the kitchen.

  Runs on iOS and Android, against Web, Android and Windows for Crunchtime Kitchen.

• Epson TrueOrder KDS

  TrueOrder KDS is Epson's kitchen display software for restaurants.

  Runs on Web, against Web, Android and Windows for Crunchtime Kitchen.

• Annoncer

  Annoncer is kitchen management software and kitchen display hardware from Index Hospitality Systems in the Netherlands.

  Runs on Windows, against Web, Android and Windows for Crunchtime Kitchen.

• LINGA KDS

  LINGA KDS is the kitchen display module of the LINGA cloud POS for restaurants.

  Runs on iOS, against Web, Android and Windows for Crunchtime Kitchen.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Annoncer
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Epson TrueOrder KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Square KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Fresh KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs LINGA KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Northstar KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Annoncer vs Square KDS
• Crunchtime Kitchen vs Annoncer vs Epson TrueOrder KDS vs Fresh KDS

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Any price
• Contract term
• Founding year of Crunchtime or of QSR Automations, headcount, funding amounts
• Full POS list beyond the entries shown; which are two-way
• Mobile app availability
• Whether SOC 2 covers Kitchen (the security page says all products)
• Countries where Kitchen itself is sold

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

1. Homehttps://www.crunchtime.com
2. Kitchen product pagehttps://www.crunchtime.com/kitchen
3. Hardwarehttps://www.crunchtime.com/kitchen/hardware
4. Certified POS listhttps://www.crunchtime.com/kitchen-host-integrations
5. Hosthttps://www.crunchtime.com/host
6. Companyhttps://www.crunchtime.com/about-us
7. Customershttps://www.crunchtime.com/our-customers
8. Securityhttps://www.crunchtime.com/security
9. Offices and contacthttps://www.crunchtime.com/contact
10. Support policyhttps://www.crunchtime.com/support-policy-ct
11. Merger releasehttps://www.crunchtime.com/press/qsr-automations-agrees-to-merge-with-crunchtime
12. Renamehttps://www.crunchtime.com/blog/introducing-rebranded-product-names-for-qsr-automations-solutions
13. Zenput acquisitionhttps://www.crunchtime.com/press/crunchtime-acquires-zenput