CASE STUDY
Kaldi’s Coffee uses meez for accurate recipes and food Costs across 14+ locations
Kaldi’s Coffee, operating 14 locations in St. Louis and Atlanta, encountered significant challenges in maintaining recipe consistency, accurate costing, and effective training. They needed a solution to reduce the time spent analyzing menu data, improve consistency across locations, and find an easy way to monitor theoretical food costs.
Business Type
Cafe & Coffee Roaster
member name
Cannon Dowell
IT Administrator
location
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio
PROBLEM
Relying on spreadsheets for costing and email-based recipes led to inconsistencies in batch sizes, errors from handwritten notes, limited access to recipe information, and time-consuming staff training.
Solution
With meez as their central recipe hub, Kaldi’s streamlined recipe management, standardized batch sizes, and improved team onboarding. meez enabled real-time cost updates, visual aids for training, and centralized access to costing data.
Results
- Time saved on recipe management and menu analysis, allowing leadership to focus on strategic decisions
- Consistent recipes and accurate batch scaling across all 14 locations
- Reduced errors and improved costing accuracy, supporting faster, data-driven decisions
“In meez, we can view and swap recipes between locations or markets. In other systems, it’s too much work to make manual adjustments for each of our 14 locations. But with meez, we only need one recipe, or maybe two if there's a market-based adjustment. That's why we’re using it so strongly for theoretical costing.”
Cannon Dowell
IT Administrator
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