Built by operators who've stood where you stand.

David Backhus

David is a working restaurateur, not a software guy who read a book about restaurants. As a principal of Take Flight Restaurant Group in Chester Springs, he's opened and operated concepts across the region — from Bloom Southern Kitchen in the historic Eagle Tavern to ventures alongside some of the area's best chefs — and built a reputation on hospitality first.

He also lived the problem Breadcrumbs solves. The hours lost to invoices and spreadsheets, the decisions made on gut instead of numbers because the numbers showed up too late to matter. David started Breadcrumbs to give owners their time back and their margins under control — so the craft, not the cash-flow math, gets your best hours.

"We didn't want to build another dashboard. We wanted a system that understands how a restaurant actually runs — and helps owners see what's coming before it happens."

Dr. John H. Wilson

John brings the discipline of operations and the rigor of the classroom to the table. He's a teaching professor at Drexel University's Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship, founder of the consultancy Strategic Collisions International, and has spent more than two decades in the software and services world helping businesses turn the way they're built into the way they profit.

He's also lived the restaurant side, leading operations and leadership development for Take Flight Restaurant Group. That blend — operator, scholar, builder — is why Breadcrumbs turns messy daily data into decisions an owner can actually act on. John holds an MBA from Penn State and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from Regent University.

Stefanie Friedman

Stef ran the numbers where it counts. As financial controller for Take Flight Restaurant Group, she owned the P&L across the group's concepts — and she knows operations like the back of her hand, equally at home on the floor and in the back office. She helped Morgantown Coffee House win the “Best Brunch in PA”, the kind of win that only happens when great service and disciplined numbers pull in the same direction.

That blend of controller's rigor and operator's instinct is exactly what keeps Breadcrumbs honest. Stef can run with the best of them — so she knows precisely which numbers an owner needs in front of them, and which ones are just noise.