Kevin Pedeaux. Operator since 2015.
Kevin has operated multi-vendor food and hospitality spaces in New Orleans since 2015. Today he runs St. Roch Market — eleven independent vendor businesses under one roof, one bar, daily settlements, vendor agreements, shift handoffs, and the kind of operational complexity that breaks generic software fast. He also runs CR Coffee: four retail coffee locations in New Orleans.
Why CoreRail exists.
CoreRail didn't start as a software company. It started as a Monday-night problem. Vendor settlements at St. Roch Market lived in a labyrinth of Google Sheets stitched to Square POS exports by hand. The work took about six hours a week. It was error-prone. And like every back-office problem in hospitality, it had to be perfect — because the numbers being reconciled were the numbers a vendor was going to be paid, and getting them wrong erodes trust, and erosion of vendor trust erodes the operation.
Kevin built the first version of what is now Food Hall Manager because he was doing vendor settlements in spreadsheets at midnight and knew there had to be a better way. The first version ran inside his own building. Every feature exists because a real operator needed it to exist.
The principle.
Most operational software for hospitality is built by developers who interview operators. That's not bad, but it produces a particular flavor of software — software that solves the problems operators can articulate clearly, not the problems that show up during service. The friction between the user-research session and the 11pm shift is where real operations live, and it's where generic software fails.
CoreRail is built the other way around. The person writing the code is the person opening the building. The patterns get tested against reality every day. The features that don't earn their keep get removed. The features that get added are the ones that solve problems we just had during service last week.
What we work on.
We build operational software for hospitality businesses where the workflow doesn't fit a standard SaaS template — multi-vendor spaces, multi-location coffee shops, food halls, restaurant groups. We also build the public-facing websites for those operations: St. Roch Market and CR Coffee both run on websites we built. A handful of browser-based tools (a photo editor, a word processor) live on this site as examples of what we can build with vanilla web technology when the problem calls for it.
What we don't do.
We don't build generic SaaS for verticals we don't operate in. We don't take on work where the customer can't get a real operator on the call. We don't hide behind enterprise sales — every conversation starts with the founder. And we won't tell you CoreRail is the right answer if it isn't.
Where to go next.
Read the case studies from St. Roch Market and CR Coffee. Browse the products. Or start a conversation about what's broken in your operation.