11 Patents Pending · FSMA 204 Ready · 2+ Years Live
Pass any audit. Trace any lot.
Run your food operation without ERP overhead.
Shrink Manager™ captures daily production work as structured data. FSMA 204 traceability, shrink analytics, and audit-ready documentation emerge automatically — live in weeks, not months.
Deployed across multi-site production environments. Sits alongside your ERP — no replatforming.
15%
average shrink reduction across live production sites — measured over 24 months
Currently deployed across 10 production sites within a single enterprise operator. Commercial launch underway ahead of FSMA 204
Trusted by operators supplying
Hospital Systems
Sodexo Accounts
Aramark Partners
University Dining
Corporate Dining
Orders Today
247
↑ 12% vs last week
Shrink Rate
4.2%
↓ 0.8% this month
FSMA Compliance
98.7%
↑ Audit-Ready
Revenue (MTD)
$84.2K
↑ On Forecast
Recent Production Orders
Auto-synced · 2 min ago
| Location | Product | Produced | Shrink | CTE Status | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen — Site A | Fresh Protein Bowl | 340 units | 14 (4.1%) | Auto-captured | Delivered |
| Kitchen — Site B | Garden Salad Kit | 218 units | 43 (19.7%) | Auto-captured | Review |
| Kitchen — Site C | Grain & Veggie Bowl | 412 units | 18 (4.4%) | Auto-captured | Delivered |
| Kitchen — Site D | Fresh Wrap Entrée | 180 units | 9 (5.0%) | Auto-captured | In Transit |
10+
Production Sites
1M+
Annual Units
2yr
Live in Production
40%
Labor Cost Reduction
15%
Shrink Reduction
11
Patents Pending
"We implemented NetSuite for $80,000. It couldn't tell us our shrink rate. So we built the tool we actually needed — inside our own production kitchens."
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Dr. Bradley Oostindie
Co-Founder, Shrink Software
Built From the Inside
The product real operators built for real operators
Shrink Manager was developed inside Anu Sushi LLC, a multi-site institutional food manufacturer supplying hospitals, universities, and corporate dining through Sodexo and Aramark. Every gap this platform fills, the founders hit first.
Built in a Live Production Environment
Every feature was tested and refined across 10 active production sites before commercialization.
2+ Years of Real Data
Forecasting and analytics are trained on actual shrink events and order patterns — not simulated data.
Defensible by Design
11 USPTO provisional patents protect core workflows that took years of operational iteration to develop.
The Vertical SaaS Origin Pattern
Operator builds internal tool → internal product → spins out SaaS. The most credible vertical software companies follow this exact path.
Toast — restaurant operator → restaurant OS
Procore — contractor → construction platform
ServiceTitan — trade contractor → field service OS
Shrink Software — food operator → fresh food OS
Why We Exist
Alongside ERP.
Not a spreadsheet.
Enterprise software runs the back office of food operations beautifully. The production floor is a different problem.
After a failed NetSuite implementation, we built the missing layer — the compliance and execution work that happens between the production order and the financial system. Multi-site coordination, lot tracking, recipes and labels, order-to-invoice, full FSMA 204 traceability. Your financial system stays untouched. No replatform.
Built for the floor, not the back office
Temperature logs, receiving records, pH monitoring, and cooling documentation — digitized and enforced at the point of work.
Compliance that builds itself
Documentation is generated as your team does their job — not assembled manually after the fact.
One-click FDA-ready inspection reports
When inspectors arrive, full FSMA 204 traceability documentation generates instantly. Records are timestamped, structured, and audit-defensible.
No implementation. No consultant.
Operational from day one. Your team learns it in hours, not months.
FSMA 204 ready before the deadline
Full traceability built into every workflow. The FSMA 204 deadline is July 20, 2028 — we're already there, two years live in production.
Built For
Is this your operation?
Shrink Manager is purpose-built for institutional fresh food manufacturers — operators producing high-volume, perishable product for managed dining accounts.
Multi-Site Fresh Food Manufacturers (2–10 Sites)
Daily production for retail, hospital, university, or corporate dining. Real-time visibility into production, waste, and margin.
Sushi manufacturers
Salad producers
Fresh meal prep
Prepared foods
Hospital & University Food Ops
In-house kitchens with strict compliance and institutional buyers demanding traceability on demand.
Health system kitchens
University commissaries
Sodexo suppliers
Aramark suppliers
Food Franchise Operators
Central kitchen plus franchise distribution — the exact architecture Shrink Manager was built on.
Central production hubs
Multi-unit franchisors
Ghost kitchen networks
What This Is Costing You Right Now
A typical 5-site fresh food operation
loses this every year.
Without execution-level visibility, the losses are invisible — until they aren't.
$200K+
Lost to unmeasured shrink
A 5-site operation running at industry-average shrink rates loses $200K–$400K annually in product that walks out the door unmeasured.
1,000+
Staff hours on manual logs
Compliance logs, production records, and invoicing reconciliation consume thousands of hours annually — work that generates zero operational value.
Now
FSMA 204 deadline for your buyers
Aramark, Sodexo, and major health systems are already requiring lot-level traceability from suppliers. The FDA deadline is 2028. Your buyers' deadline is today.
Shrink Manager eliminates all three — in weeks.
Platform Capabilities
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Built from 2+ years of live production use across 10 facilities.
Smart Label & Traceability
Barcode-driven labeling creates automatic Critical Tracking Events at every production step. Full chain-of-custody without a single manual entry.
Production Order Management
Create, dispatch, and track production orders across multiple sites. Mobile-native for floor operators and delivery drivers.
Real-Time Shrink Tracking
Record unsold product at delivery and surface waste patterns by location, product, and day. Act before it becomes a monthly loss.
QuickBooks Integration
Automated invoicing from order completion. Significantly reduces administrative labor by eliminating manual reconciliation — based on time tracking across live Anu Sushi production sites.
Multi-Site Management
Unified dashboard across all production kitchens, franchisee locations, and customer sites. Role-based access for Admin, Production, and Driver roles.
Demand & Shrink Forecasting
Forecast production quantities and flag shrink risk from historical order and waste patterns — reducing overproduction before it happens.
FSMA 204 Compliance Forms
Hardcoded, audit-ready Receiving Logs, Lot Code / Transformation Logs, and Cooling / Label Check Logs — auto-populated from live operations data.
Product Profitability
Real-time cost, shrink percentage, and margin by product and customer. Know your best and worst SKUs every day — not every quarter.
Mobile-First Field Operations
Driver and production apps built for real kitchen environments — fast and designed for non-technical operators to use on the floor.
FSMA 204 Compliance
Compliant in
30 days.
Most operators serving Aramark, Sodexo, and major health systems aren't ready for FSMA 204 — and those buyers are already requiring it. The practical deadline isn't July 2028. It's now.
30
Days to deploy
100%
Auto-captured CTEs
Jul '28
FDA deadline
✓
2022–2024
FSMA 204 Rule Finalized
FDA establishes electronic traceability requirements for high-risk food categories
!
2026–2027 · Now
Buyer Requirements Begin
Sodexo, Aramark, and health systems begin requiring supplier traceability documentation — ahead of FDA enforcement
⚑
July 20, 2028
FDA Enforcement Begins
Full enforcement — non-compliant operators face contract termination and legal exposure
Operators deploying now build a 12–24 month compliance moat
Competitors implementing later face a compressed timeline with no proven platform and no operational data history.
* Timeline reflects latest FDA guidance and Congressional directive (Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026) — enforcement no earlier than July 20, 2028.
How It Works
Zero extra work.
Full compliance.
Compliance happens automatically, as a byproduct of normal operations. No extra steps. No dedicated staff. No retroactive documentation.
Receiving — Scan Incoming Product
Receiving CTE captured automatically: supplier, lot code, quantity, timestamp.
Production — Print Labels
Every label print creates a Transformation CTE — fully linked to source ingredients and lot.
Delivery — Confirm & Record Shrink
Driver app captures shipping CTE and logs unsold product. Full chain complete. Audit-ready instantly.
The Transformation
Before & After
What running a multi-site production kitchen looks like without Shrink Manager — and with it.
Before Shrink Manager
✗
Shrink surprises at month-end
You find out about waste weeks after it happened — too late to act.
✗
Manual logs no one trusts
Paper logs and spreadsheets entered after the fact. Errors and inconsistency are baked in.
✗
Audit panic when inspectors arrive
Hours reconstructing records. Risk of failed inspection or lost contract.
✗
No traceability for FSMA 204
Institutional buyers are already asking. Most operators have nothing to show them.
✗
Manual invoicing and reconciliation
Hours every week matching deliveries to invoices.
With Shrink Manager
✓
Same-day shrink alerts
Shrink captured at the line in real time. Spot problems the day they happen.
✓
Compliance records generate automatically
FSMA 204 traceability records are created as a byproduct of normal operations.
✓
Audit-ready in 2 clicks
HACCP logs, lot traceability, CCP records available instantly when an inspector arrives.
✓
FSMA 204 traceability from day one
Lot-level receiving, transformation, and delivery records in every workflow.
✓
Invoices generate on delivery confirmation
Delivery confirmed in the platform → QuickBooks invoice created automatically.
3–5×
Typical customer saves 3–5× the subscription cost in year one
Through reduced shrink, recovered staff time, and avoided compliance incidents.
Proven Results
Numbers from live production
Measured across 2+ years of deployment at 10 production sites, with compliance output reaching 200+ institutional accounts through Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group.
Up to 40%
Administrative Labor ReductionInvoicing and reconciliation automated from order completion — based on internal deployment across live production sites
30%
Operational Labor ReductionManual order entry and compliance logs eliminated
15%
Product Shrink ReductionMeasured across 10+ live sites over 24 months of production data
98.7%
FSMA Compliance RateAudit-ready Critical Tracking Event documentation
Market Opportunity
The institutional fresh food
supply chain
Three converging segments — all running on spreadsheets, all facing FSMA 204, all underserved by existing software. Shrink Manager is the first platform purpose-built for all three.
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Institutional Food Production
Hospitals · Universities · Corporate Dining · Managed Food Services
Centralized production hubs serving hundreds of points of service. High compliance pressure, high volume, zero purpose-built software.
🥗
Fresh Prepared Food Manufacturers
Sushi · Salads · Meal Prep · Ready-to-Eat · Deli Programs
Multi-SKU fresh production for institutional buyers. Short shelf life, complex traceability, shrink-sensitive margins. Exactly what Shrink Manager was built inside.
🏭
Commissary & Central Kitchen Networks
Ghost Kitchens · Franchise Production Hubs · Regional Production Kitchens
Centralized production scaling across franchise and delivery networks. Multi-site coordination, lot traceability, and cost visibility are all unsolved.
Platform Network Map
Hospitals
Universities
Commissaries
↓
Shrink Manager
Production · Traceability · Shrink · Finance
↓
Distributors
Buyers
FDA Compliance
Every node generates data. The platform that owns the data layer owns the network.
$60B+
Institutional fresh food supply chain — hospitals, universities, managed services, and fresh food manufacturers combined
47K+
FDA-regulated food manufacturers required to comply with FSMA 204 traceability rules
~0%
Current software penetration for FSMA 204 compliance in fresh food production — greenfield category
Jul '28
FDA enforcement deadline — creating a defined window to establish category leadership and build an unassailable data advantage
Comparable Market Plays
FSMA 204 is
our wedge
Vanta → SOC 2 compliance automation
Compliance mandate created a massive software category. Vanta became dominant before the market consolidated around it.
Rippling → HR compliance platform
Regulatory complexity drove operators to a single integrated platform rather than a patchwork of tools.
Shrink Manager → FSMA 204 automation
The only platform purpose-built for institutional fresh food, deployed and proven before the compliance wave hits.
Why Now
The category is about to
explode.
explode.
Four converging forces are creating a narrow window for the infrastructure layer of institutional fresh food to be defined — and owned.
FDA Enforcement
Jul 2028
~28 months away
⏰
FSMA 204 Mandate
FDA enforcement begins July 20, 2028. Every produce-touching operation in the US must have digital traceability — or face contract termination and legal exposure.
🏥
Institutional Compliance Pressure
Sodexo and Aramark supplier requirements are already ahead of the FDA deadline. Suppliers without traceability systems are losing bids today — not in 2028.
👷
Labor Shortages Accelerating
Institutional food operators can't hire their way out of production complexity. Automation and digital workflows are no longer optional — they're the only path to margin.
📈
Fresh Prepared Foods Growth
Hospital systems and universities are consolidating production into centralized hub-and-spoke models — exactly the architecture Shrink Manager is already running.
Platform Architecture
Every layer of the operation.
One connected system.
Shrink analytics and FSMA compliance run continuously across every production step — captured automatically, not entered manually.
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Receiving
Supplier, lot code, quantity logged at intake
↓
🏭
Production
Orders created, batches tracked, yield recorded
↓
🏷️
Labeling
Barcode print triggers transformation record
↓
🚚
Delivery
Driver confirms, unsold product recorded as shrink
↓
🔗
Invoicing
QuickBooks sync, auto-invoice, zero data entry
FSMA 204 Compliance
Critical Tracking Events auto-generated at every step. Audit-ready documentation requires zero manual entry.
Receiving CTE
Transform CTE
Shipping CTE
Shrink Analytics
Real-time waste visibility across every production step. Shrink is measured — and actionable — before month-end.
By site
By product
Real-time
Financial Intelligence
Margin, cost, and profitability flow automatically from production events. QuickBooks sync eliminates manual reconciliation.
Auto-invoice
Margin by SKU
Platform Roadmap
The platform powering the
next generation of fresh food ops
Shrink Manager began as a solution for operational shrink and FSMA traceability. But the data layer created by daily production events unlocks a much larger platform opportunity.
Shrink Manager Platform — Core Data Layer
📦
Production
Orders, batches, yield
🏷️
Traceability
CTEs, lot codes, chain
📉
Shrink
Waste, site, product
💰
Finance
Invoicing, margin, cost
↓ Expanding data layer ↓
🔮
Demand Forecasting
Site-level prediction from historical patterns
🛒
Procurement Optimization
Ingredient cost and supplier scoring
🤝
Franchise Network Mgmt
Multi-operator performance and compliance
🌐
Supplier Traceability Network
End-to-end supply chain visibility
🏥
Institutional Buyer Integration
Direct feeds to Sodexo, Aramark, health systems
The Toast Parallel
Toast began as a restaurant POS. It became payroll, inventory, analytics, and payments — the full operating layer for the industry. Shrink Software is building the same playbook for institutional fresh food production.
Toast started with
POS & payments
Shrink starts with
Production OS
Toast became
Restaurant platform
Shrink becomes
Supply chain platform
Strategic Positioning
As more production sites adopt Shrink Manager™, the platform becomes the system of record for operational data across the category — positioning the company to scale independently or partner strategically with the platforms already serving this market.
Oracle
SAP
Toast
Aptean
FoodLogiQ
SafetyChain
Tyler Technologies
The 2028 FSMA enforcement deadline creates a defined window to establish category leadership — and the operational data advantage that makes the category defensible.
Company
Growing With
Partners
We're expanding with new production partners while selectively engaging investors who want early access to the category infrastructure layer for fresh food. Full terms available to accredited investors upon request.
Current Deployment
Deployed across 10 production sites with compliance output reaching 200+ institutional accounts through partner distribution channels including Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group. The compliance execution layer alongside your ERP — no replatforming.
11 USPTO Provisional Patents Pending
Core filings shown. Full portfolio available to accredited investors in diligence.
Workflow Enforcement System
Sequential step enforcement for food production traceability
Automatic Artifact Generation
Real-time compliance record creation from operational events
Predictive Intelligence System
Historical pattern-based demand and shrink forecasting
Dual-Source Corroborative Verification
Cross-validation system for critical traceability data integrity
Partner & Investor Brief
Full offering details — including round structure, valuation rationale, financial projections, use of proceeds, and cap table — are available to accredited investors under NDA upon request.
DeploymentTwo weeks per site
Current ARRLive · 2+ Years Revenue
Production Sites10+ in daily operation
Patents Pending11 USPTO Applications
FSMA 204Audit-ready workflows
StatusEngaging accredited investors
This offering is made only to accredited investors. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy securities.
Request Investor Brief →
Leadership
Operators who built this
for themselves first
No theorizing. The founders ran the operation that needed this platform. Every feature exists because someone on this team needed it at 2am in a production kitchen.
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Tim Schierbeek
Co-Founder · CEO
Serial operator and entrepreneur with three decades scaling businesses in multiple verticals across the US, Europe and Asia. Co-founded the multi-site institutional food business where Shrink Software was incubated.
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Daniel Bradish
Co-Founder · CTO
Builds and maintains the full platform stack. Two decades of multi-tenant SaaS architecture work; iterated Shrink Manager in live production environments across multiple states for 2+ years.
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Dr. Bradley Oostindie
Co-Founder · Architect
Human performance and workflow expert with prior experience helping execute the turnaround of an enterprise SaaS company. Architected Shrink Manager's operator-first design, shaping how work moves through the platform.
Advisory Board
Strategic advisors to the team.
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Todd Burns
Advisor · Legal & Strategy
Corporate and M&A practitioner. Advises family offices, funds, and technology companies on transactions across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
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Steve Beukema
Advisor · Go-to-Market
Product and commercial operator with decades of experience across domestic and international markets. Deep relationships across institutional food service buyers.
RS
Renato Siljeg
Advisor · Strategy & Capital
Chief Information Officer at Nauto, named to The Software Report’s Top 25 AI Executives of 2025. Brings deep enterprise scaling experience.
Case Study
Proven Across 10 Live Production Sites
Shrink Manager™ was developed and deployed inside a multi-site institutional food manufacturer — and has been running in daily production for over two years.
Before Shrink Manager™, production, compliance, and invoicing were managed across spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Today, all operational data is captured in real time at the point of production.
Initial Deployment — Enterprise Operator
Operator Profile
Multi-Site Fresh Food Production Operator
Institutional food manufacturer supplying hospitals, universities, and corporate dining accounts through national foodservice providers.
Production Sites
10
Delivery Partners
200+
Time Live
2+ yrs
System Role
Daily Operations
Results
📉
15% reduction in shrink — measured over 24 months
Tracked across live production sites through real-time waste monitoring at every delivery
⚡
Same-day visibility into waste and performance
Operators intervene immediately instead of reacting to month-end reports
🔒
FSMA 204 audit readiness built into operations
Compliance captured automatically through production workflows — zero manual entry
💰
Production → invoice automation
Integrated QuickBooks workflows eliminate manual reconciliation entirely
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System of record for daily operations
Production, compliance, and financial data unified in a single platform
This deployment reflects a single enterprise operator. Commercial launch underway with first external customers targeted for Q3 2026, ahead of FSMA 204 compliance requirements.
See it in your operation.
We're actively deploying with new customers — operators who need compliance and cost visibility now, and investors who want early access to the category leader.
Typical deployment: two weeks per site · No long-term contract required