The tour · stop 2 of 6 · ordering
The draft is already written.
Every order day, each vendor's draft is waiting: forecast demand for the coverage window, minus what's on the shelf, converted into their cases and their SKUs at their prices. You nudge a number if you like, and hit send — done before the first espresso's pulled.
Running out costs margin.
Throwing out costs everything.
Butter's suggestions come from the newsvendor model — the same math airlines and grocers pay consultants for — tuned per item. It weighs the profit you lose when the case goes empty against the cost of what you'd bin, and lands on the quantity where those two regrets balance.
Milk is not a morning bun
Milk outlives the order cycle, so Butter pads it generously — safety stock is nearly free. Fresh pastry spoils tomorrow, so it holds the line. Same math, opposite instincts, item by item.
Fluent in supplier
“We order Thursdays for Monday through Sunday.” “It's cases of 12, and they call our croissant BTRCR-12.” Schedules, cut-offs, delivery days, pack sizes, minimums, prices — Butter keeps every vendor's dialect straight.
Every line shows its work
Tap a suggestion and see why: what a typical Thursday sells, what the forecast expects, what's on hand, and when the item usually runs out. Selling out before 11:30 reads as missed sales; after 3 p.m., healthy sell-through.
Delivery days, not just totals
For vendors that deliver Mon–Wed–Fri, quantities land per delivery day in a matrix — so Wednesday's pastry case isn't living off Monday's drop.
One click to the vendor
The order becomes a clean, formatted email — with a real table that pastes as a table — sent from Butter, copied, or handed to your mail app. Cc the kitchen with a tap.
The planner keeps score
Vendors line up soonest-cutoff first with “order today” and “overdue” badges; mark one done and it sleeps until its next cycle. The goal state is a real sentence: “All caught up — every order due today is placed. 🎉”
Early access · rolling out batch by batch
Sunday night is for closing, not calculating.
Independent cafés first · no contract · just fewer guesses