Steven Gerner
Builder & Developer
Steven builds and maintains Farin, turning the problems that show up in a real food business into tools an owner, manager, or staff member can use. He also eats too many of Connor's croissants.
stevengerner.com Why Farin exists
Built for the work
that keeps landing on the owner.
Farin started with a simple question: why should running a small food business require so many apps, spreadsheets, workarounds, and late nights? We started solving those problems inside a real bakery, one practical job at a time.
If it does not help on a real production day, it is not done.
butteredupbakery.comButtered Up Bakery is a small wholesale and retail bakery in Phoenix. Its owner was spending too much time holding together spreadsheets, separate apps, inbox orders, and manual workarounds.
Connor needed fewer repeated tasks and better answers. Steven started building simple tools for scheduling, production, purchasing, orders, and accounting. Each new part had to make a real week at the bakery easier.
After years of daily use, we opened Farin to other bakeries, cafés, restaurants, and small food producers with the same problems. You should not need a dozen tools or a technical team to make one part of the business easier.
"You shouldn't need a dozen tools to run one kitchen."
The Team
The people behind it
One person runs the food business. One builds the tools. Both use what they learn every day.
Connor Nelson
Operator & Product Partner
Connor runs Buttered Up Bakery and is Farin's first, most demanding user. He tests every change against real production days, wholesale orders, staffing problems, and payroll runs. If it does not help the business, it is not ready.
butteredupbakery.comHow we build
Useful by design
The promises we use to decide whether a new tool is worth adding.
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Tested on real work
Every part of Farin starts with a problem that showed up in a real food business. We use it through real production days, orders, schedules, and payroll runs.
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Enter the work once
Recipes can help with buying, schedules can become timecards, and sales can give context to the week. The same information should keep earning its place.
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Made for small teams
Owners and managers should be able to start without a consultant or technical team. Use what helps, leave what does not, and grow into the rest.
Contact us
We'd love to hear from you
For sales, support, partnerships, or legal requests, email [email protected]
2628 W Birchwood Cir, STE C, Mesa, AZ 85202
Start small
Want an easier way to run the work behind your food?
Start with the part of your operation that is costing you the most time. No credit card, no sales call—just a practical place to begin.
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