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.
The real app, shown with sample data.
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. Here is what changes.
The plan is in my head.
PAR levels, leftovers and orders all have to be added up each night, by you, for every product.
With The Bakery DeskThe app adds it all up and suggests every product for every store. You adjust and confirm.
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.
With The Bakery DeskLate orders show on the bakers' screen with exactly what changed, and an updated bake list goes out.
Orders come from everywhere.
ezCater, the website, the phone and email, each in its own place, so something always slips.
With The Bakery DeskEvery order lands in one list and goes straight onto the plan.
Closing depends on who is on.
Some nights everything gets done. Other nights you find out the next morning what did not.
With The Bakery DeskEach closer gets their own checklist, and you get a close report every night.
We should do more catering.
Everyone agrees, and nobody has time to find the offices and schools nearby or follow up.
With The Bakery DeskA short weekly plan of local stops and sample boxes, plus follow-up emails you approve.
I can't step away.
Because the system is you. Every question comes back to the owner's phone.
With The Bakery DeskEach role sees its own screen, so the answers are in the app, not on your phone.
Easy for every role
Big buttons, plain words, no typing at 3 a.m. Try them: each one is a real button from the app.
Owner, 6 PM
The bake list is emailed to the bakery, and any later change is flagged for the bakers.
Baker, 3 AM
The tray is ticked off on every screen and what was baked is recorded. No counting later.
Van, 7 AM
The other store sees it coming, ticks it Received, and both stores' counts follow.
Counter, all day
The order is set aside and marked ready, so nothing is missed at pickup.
Driver, 11 AM
The visit is logged and a follow-up email is drafted for the owner to approve.
Closer, 6 PM
When the last closer finishes, the owner gets the close report with anything skipped and why.
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.
See it in the app
Batches, retarded dough, Baker's choice, the van run and the pack table. The app speaks the way your bakers already talk.
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
Based on our first bakery, which 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.