Case Study: The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse achieves 2% gross savings, eliminates paperwork, and gains cost insights with MarginEdge

The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse uses MarginEdge to Boost Bottom Line and Gain New Cost Insights while Eliminating Paperwork

The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse, led by restaurant veteran Greg Casten, struggled with mountains of paper invoices, time-consuming manual data entry and limited visibility into purchasing and costs. To solve these back-office and purchasing challenges, Casten implemented MarginEdge’s restaurant operations platform to digitize invoices and centralize purchase, inventory and recipe data.

Using MarginEdge, The Tavern automated invoice capture, vendor/order‑guide management, inventory and recipe costing and interim P&L reporting, enabling real‑time purchasing and pricing decisions. The result: weekly invoice work fell from 30–40 hours to minutes, old paper archives (including a rented tractor‑trailer) were eliminated, and the operation realized roughly a 2% improvement in gross — a measurable, significant boost to the bottom line.

The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse

Greg Casten

Owner and Operator