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YOU + Squirrel 

Why We're a Perfect Match

You. A recognized brand in the Canadian market. A thought-leader, trailblazer, you're leading the pack. Your operations are robust, custom, intricate and require the most accurate details to ensure the success of your brand. 

Squirrel Systems delivers the centralized management, real-time reporting, and operational control that multi-location restaurant brands like yours require to maintain consistency while preserving local agility.
  • Reinvention and Evolution Over the Years
  • Built for Multi-Brand, Multi-Concept Reality
  • At the Forefront of Digital Transformation for Restaurants
SOUNDS LIKE THIS DESCRIBES BOTH OF OUR BRANDS. 
 
Management

One Restaurant Brain. Many Guest Experiences.

Squirrel Cafe operates one of the most sophisticated multi‑brand restaurant portfolios—spanning iconic full‑service brands, alongside counter‑service operations.

At that scale, the challenge isn’t creativity or brand expression—it’s delivering consistent operational excellence across hundreds of locations and business models.

Squirrel Systems is built to be that invisible foundation: a standardized “restaurant brain” that ensures reliability in high‑volume environments, flexibility across concepts, and a cloud‑ready path to modernization—so Recipe can evolve its technology stack without disrupting what matters most: how each brand shows up for guests.

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We're Here to Enable Amazing Guest Experiences

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Operations

The best POS is the one operators don’t think about during service.

Restaurant‑level success comes down to rhythm. Orders move cleanly from front to back. Payments are fast and reliable. Teams stay focused on guests—not workarounds, reboots, or calling for help during a dinner rush.

When core systems are stable and predictable across the portfolio, operators can spend their time where Recipe wins: coaching teams, driving sales, and executing consistently at volume—rather than managing technology exceptions across locations or concepts.

Squirrel’s role is to make the technology layer boring on purpose: a dependable, enterprise‑grade foundation that works the same way every shift, in every brand, so Recipe’s restaurants can do the exciting work that guests remember.

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Reporting

The best reporting is the kind you trust without questions.

At Squirrel Cafe’s scale, reporting needs to be consistent, trusted, and fast. Leaders shouldn’t spend time reconciling numbers across brands or questioning the source of truth.

Squirrel helps by providing a dependable transaction foundation that produces clean, consistent data across locations, so reporting moves quickly from “are the numbers right?” to “what action should we take?”

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HEAR FROM YOUR PEERS

Don't take our word for it, take theirs. 

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Cactus Club Cafe

Hear how Rob Larmour, Vice President of Information Technology, utilizes Squirrel Systems to build seamless guest experiences across their premium dining brand across numerous locations in North America.

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SIR CORP

Paul Bognar, President of Sir Corp, the parent company behind notable brands like Jack Astors, Scaddabush, Edna + Vita, Reds and more, highlights the benefits of Squirrel when it comes to restaurant efficiencies. 

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Warehouse Group

Listen to Kyle Tweter, Co-Founder of the Nationwide restaurant brand, Warehouse Group, describe how transformative good tech can be in a fast-paced environment in the heart of our country's downtore cores. 

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So, Why Squirrel?

These Are The Things Squirrel Can Do To Make Your Day Easier

Operations Teams Love Us Because

Managing menus, pricing, and configurations across 1 or 100 locations used to mean spreadsheets, site visits, and hoping every location made the change. With Squirrel’s centralized management and cloud-based scheduling, your ops and F&B teams can draft, test, and deploy changes — LTOs, modifier libraries, happy hour pricing — across every location or just specific store groups, from one screen, on a timeline that doesn’t interrupt service. Role-based access means new staff see only what’s relevant to their role, cutting onboarding time when turnover happens.

Finance Teams Love Us Because

Numbers you can trust start with a transaction layer you can rely on. Squirrel produces clean, consistent financial data across every location from the moment a shift closes — giving your finance team the accurate, location-level reporting needed to budget confidently, forecast accurately, and close the books without chasing discrepancies. When the data is right, your team stops asking “are these numbers correct?” and starts asking “what are we going to do about it?”

Technology Teams Love Us Because

Your IT team measures success in uptime percentages, response times, and tickets that never get opened. Squirrel Cloud delivers on all three — automatic security patches and feature updates pushed continuously, enterprise-grade disaster recovery with no local hardware dependency, and a platform your team deploys and manages centrally across every location. Fewer vendor escalations. More time building the systems that actually move the business forward.

"We’ve been partnered for 20+ years, Squirrel has really been there every step of the way with us. No ask has been too small."

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Rob Larmour

VP, Information Technology, Cactus Club Cafe