Case Study: Hash House A Go Go reduces labor and inventory costs and accelerates expansion with Crunchtime

How Hash House A Go Go Uses Data-Driven Insights to Reduce Labor Costs and Propel Business Expansion

Hash House A Go Go is a 13-location American restaurant chain known for inventive takes on Midwestern classics. As the company prepared to scale, managers struggled with fragmented, spreadsheet-based reporting and lacked real-time visibility into sales, recipe costs, inventory and labor—making consistent cost control and expansion planning difficult.

By implementing Crunchtime (including BizIQ and Teamworx) and standardizing recipes, Hash House gained accurate, timely data and integrated inventory and scheduling tools. The chain now performs weekly inventories, reduced overbuying (saving 3–5% on inventory), optimized labor and service hours, removed uneconomic menu items, and accelerated reporting—capabilities that helped navigate COVID-19 changes and support new-location growth, including a planned Disney opening.

Hash House A Go Go

Joyce Franke

Food Operations Manager