Build a coffee business that thrives without taking over your life.
You started a cafe to focus on great coffee and community, not to spend your Sundays trapped in spreadsheets. MetriCup gives you the daily operational clarity to step off the floor, protect your margins, and grow with confidence.
“How did Downtown's labor efficiency compare to Market Square yesterday?”
Sales Per Labor Hour (SPLH) measures how much revenue your cafe generates for every hour a barista is on the clock. Ask plain English questions to compare shift productivity across stores, spot overstaffed afternoon hours, and audit timesheets without pulling CSV exports.
Interactive Product Demo
What your business looks like when the data is connected.
One unified view of sales comps, labor efficiency, pastry sell-out, and 14-day forecasts.
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Capabilities & Custom Systems
Software engineered for how coffee teams actually work.
From raw POS and timecard pipelines to automated daily briefings and roastery analytics. Everything is deployed directly to your own cloud infrastructure.
Unified Sales, Labor & Channel Economics
Square POS, Shopify e-commerce, Cropster roastery batches, and delivery channels consolidated into your own private warehouse. See true net margins across in-store and online orders without manual spreadsheet reconciliations.
Meal Period & Shift Audits
Automated continuous auditing of timesheets to prevent California 5th-hour meal violations, penalty premiums, and unlogged breaks before payroll closes.
Pastry Waste & Sell-Outs
Track sell-out times against received vendor delivery slips. Know which items run out during the morning rush vs. items that consistently turn into waste.
Automated 6:00 AM Briefs
Store managers receive clean email summaries with yesterday's comps, labor throughput (SPLH/OPLH), and weather-adjusted targets before their shift begins.
Weekly Bagged Bean Reports
Sun–Sat weekly retail and wholesale bean sales tracking by single origin and blend across all cafe locations and online orders.
Engagement Model
No black boxes. No SaaS subscriptions.
Project-based custom software built specifically for your specialty coffee operation.
100% Private Cloud Ownership
Every project is deployed to your own AWS, GCP, or Cloudflare account. You own the code, the database, and the pipelines. No recurring software subscriptions or vendor lock-in.
Tested on the Espresso Bar
30 years of software engineering experience combined with real shifts pulling shots. I know what a 7:30 AM morning rush feels like and how data gets messy in actual cafe operations.
Direct Senior Engineering
No account managers, sales reps, or outsourced support tickets. You work directly with me from the first scoping call to staging reviews and final deployment.
Operations Journal
Real data from real cafe shifts.
The Multi-Channel Margin Trap: When Delivery Apps Cannibalize Barista Tips
Delivery apps take a 25% commission rake and average 0.4% tips compared to 12.4% in-store. Here is how multi-channel ordering impacts your net margin and staff retention.
Why Your Store Managers Never Look at BI Dashboards (and Why 6:00 AM Email Briefs Work)
Store managers opening a cafe at 5:30 AM will not log into complex analytics dashboards. Automated 6:00 AM email digests drive actual daily operational action.
The 5:01 Problem: How Coffee Shops Lose Thousands to California Meal Break Penalties
In California, a barista clocking out at 5 hours and 1 minute is an expensive violation. Here is how meal penalties happen and how to audit timesheets before payroll runs.
Background & Philosophy
A software engineer who also pulls shots behind the bar.
After 30 years building enterprise software and data systems, I wanted to understand coffee from the inside out. So I became a part-time barista. What I found was talented people running great businesses, largely blind to the data sitting right underneath them.
Now I split my time between the espresso machine and the data stack. Knowing how software gets built and knowing what it feels like in the middle of a morning rush is what I bring to every project.
I work exclusively with specialty coffee businesses: roasters, importers, cafes, and multi-location operators. Every project is deployed to your own cloud account. You own the code, the data, and the infrastructure without monthly seat licenses or vendor lock-in.
I take on a limited number of projects at a time to give each operation the dedicated focus it deserves.
Direct Inquiry
Let's talk about your operation.
Tell me about your POS setup, roastery volume, or pain points. I reply directly within one business day.