# Crunchtime Information Systems

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/crunchtime-information-systems/  
**Website:** https://developer.crunchtime.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Crunchtime (Crunchtime Information Systems) is a Boston-based provider of AI-powered operations-management software for multi-unit restaurants, founded in 1995 and serving 850+ restaurant brands across 150,000+ locations. Its platform unifies inventory management, labor scheduling, kitchen/operations execution, and analytics. Crunchtime publishes a public developer hub for its Inventory & Labor and Cruise data-integration REST APIs, letting partners and customers push and pull employees, locations, budgets, products, recipes, sales/menu mix, purchase orders, inventory counts, time clock, and forecasting data. Backed by Battery Ventures.

## Kin Score — 28.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 53.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 12.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Crunchtime Inventory & Labor APIs** — REST data-integration API for Crunchtime's Inventory Management, Labor & Scheduling, and Cruise products. GET and POST operations move employees, locations, budgets, categories,...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Crunchtime Information Systems MCP Server** — Candidate MCP server mapping representative Crunchtime Inventory & Labor API operations to tools. Not published by Crunchtime; a proposed surface an integrator could stand up ov...

## Security (3)

- **Crunchtime Information Systems Authentication** — apiKey · 4 schemes
- **Crunchtime Information Systems Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Crunchtime Information Systems Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Tags

Company, Restaurant, Food Service, Hospitality, Inventory Management, Labor Scheduling, Operations Management, Back Office, Supply Chain

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/crunchtime-information-systems/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.