Crafty vs Canteen

Canteen promotes diversity as part of its mission, but its approach focuses primarily on internal workforce initiatives rather than providing tangible solutions for clients to support diversity through their pantry selection.

Crafty takes a proactive, technology-driven approach to diversity, ensuring you can intentionally source and track products from minority-owned brands. Our platform goes beyond broad commitments—it gives you the tools to make real, measurable choices that align with your company’s DEI goals.

How Crafty Supports Diversity Through Your Pantry Program:

• Find Diverse Products Fast: Our platform tags minority-owned, women-owned, and underrepresented brands so you can easily select and prioritize them in your pantry program.
• Track & Measure Your Impact: Our system allows you to filter inventory and consumption data to see how your purchasing supports diverse suppliers.
• Always Bringing in New Diverse Brands: We are constantly on the lookout for emerging, underrepresented brands to bring into your space, ensuring your program stays fresh, inclusive, and aligned with your DEI goals.

With Crafty, diversity isn’t just a statement—it’s built into how we operate. Our platform gives you full control, visibility, and flexibility to ensure your food and beverage program aligns with your DEI initiatives in a real and measurable way.

Crafty ensures a consistent, high-quality experience across all locations by combining technology, real-time visibility, and proactive service management. While Canteen operates on standardized processes with limited transparency, Crafty provides full oversight through our platform, tracking inventory, deliveries, and service performance in real time.

Our Operations App ensures on-site teams follow the same fulfillment standards at every location, with quality checkpoints built into every order. If something is missing or not up to standard, it’s flagged immediately, and our team takes action—unlike Canteen, which relies on you to catch and report issues.

With Crafty, you don’t have to guess if your offices are getting the right service. Our centralized system and expert support ensure your pantry program runs smoothly everywhere, keeping your team happy and your budget on track.

Learn How Crafty Ensures Operational Excellence >

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Contrary to what some may claim, no one owns the entire supply chain. Even the largest vendors, like Canteen, rely on a network of partners. While Canteen’s size gives it a broad footprint, it often comes at the expense of flexibility, innovation, and product variety. Clients are typically limited to a standardized product set and/or service model.

At Crafty, we embrace a more dynamic, transparent, and customizable approach to fulfillment by working with a diverse, carefully curated network:

• Distributors: Like other national vendors, Crafty sources popular snacks, coffee, and drinks through trusted distributors.
• Brands: Unlike traditional providers, Crafty actively tracks food trends and works directly with brands to source unique, high-quality products that your team will love.
• Crafty-Certified Local Operators: We partner with vetted, high-performing local operators to deliver a personalized, flexible experience. This allows us to not only support local communities but also offer locally sourced products that bring a higher level of customization to your national pantry program.

But having the right product selection is only half the battle—how it gets delivered and stocked is just as important. Crafty doesn’t leave fulfillment up to chance. Our platform builds in quality assurance checkpoints so you know exactly what was ordered, when it was delivered, and how it was stocked in your office. Every order is verified, documented, and optimized to ensure your workplace gets exactly what it needs without surprises.

With Crafty’s combination of transparency, technology, and high-touch service, we provide the flexibility and innovation that traditional vendors simply can’t match.

Canteen provides stocking and ordering, but it operates in the traditional food service model with limited visibility into orders, inventory, or overall budget alignment. You often don’t know what’s coming, when it’s arriving, or how well the job was done unless you stand around and monitor it yourself. If something is missing, overstocked, or needs adjusting, they keep running on autopilot, relying on you to catch and fix issues.

With Crafty, every update is fed into our platform, giving you 100% visibility into on-the-ground operations and full budget alignment. You know exactly what’s coming, when it’s arriving, and get confirmation with real-time updates, delivery verification, and stocked shelf photos. Our smart automation ensures we don’t reorder products you already have, preventing waste and keeping every order in line with your budget.

The difference isn’t just technology; it’s how we use it. Crafty’s platform powers both our team and yours to make smarter, data-driven decisions that align every purchase with your overall budget. From tracking daily spending to ensuring you don’t exceed your monthly or annual budget targets, Crafty keeps you in control while delivering a better, more cost-effective workplace food experience.

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