I'm Kevin Pedeaux. I've operated New Orleans hospitality businesses since 2015, and I build the software and websites they run on.
St. Roch Market: eleven independent vendors and a bar under one roof, in a building trading food since 1875. CR Coffee: New Orleans coffee shops on Magazine Street, Metairie Road, and inside the market. Between them, that's daily settlements, schedules, inventory, and everything else that breaks during service.
CoreRail exists because my shops ran on a group text, a shared drive, and a clipboard, and every one of those broke the moment I left the building. I built the app I wanted to run them from my phone: schedules, checklists, recipes, messaging, inventory, and booking, one system on every staff phone. It runs all four CR Coffee locations today. The settlements software that runs St. Roch Market came first, and it taught me the rule I still build by.
Every feature exists because a real shift needed it. The features that don't earn their keep get removed.
You talk to me, not an account manager. Data setup is free: send your source of truth in any form and I load it myself. Websites are built by hand, you own them outright, and you get a recorded walkthrough so you can make changes yourself. I build on Square and work directly with their team.
I don't build for operations I can't understand, and I won't tell you CoreRail is the right answer if it isn't. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere useful.
Two trade publications have asked me about running shops on software I wrote myself.
The national trade magazine behind Bar & Restaurant Expo interviewed me for its guide to auditing a restaurant tech stack. I talked about building CoreRail on top of Square, and what I'd tell any operator thinking about building their own tools.
“Caution and baby steps until you can read the code and know what it's doing is prudent.”
The Ops Guide writes about AI and automation for growing businesses. It quoted me in a piece on whether a company needs an AI consultant, a fractional Chief AI Officer, or someone in-house. I described the nightly audit at my shops: regular code does the sales math, and AI writes the short summary my managers read beside the shift notes. I also told them about the bug that fed it the wrong numbers.
“AI will narrate bad math just as nicely as it narrates good math.”
I'll tell you honestly whether I can fix it.
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