What I run
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.
Why CoreRail exists
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.
How I work
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.
What I don't do
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.
In the press
Bar & Restaurant, the national trade magazine behind Bar & Restaurant Expo, interviewed me for its September 2026 guide to restaurant tech stacks. I talked about building CoreRail on top of Square, and my advice for any operator thinking about building their own tools. Read the article.