When your business is a specialty café, not a restaurant chain, you need tools that actually fit barista workflows — not ones designed for franchises and fast food. Here's why coffee pros choose Brewspace over Jolt.
Brewspace is designed exclusively for café operations — from espresso dial-ins to recipes and morning prep. It’s intuitive and relevant to coffee teams.
Jolt is a heavyweight solution built for high-volume QSRs and large multi-site restaurants.
With Brewspace, your recipes, doses, yield targets, and espresso dial-in logs are core features — immediately useful.
Jolt offers checklists and compliance tools, but no built-in support for coffee-specific recipe management.
Brewspace is mobile-first, letting new baristas use it mid-shift — no manager needed. You can launch checklists and recipes in under 2 minutes .
Jolt requires more configuration and admin setup, which can slow down staff adoption.
Brewspace features community-driven templates for espresso dialing, opening routines, and more — making setup faster and smarter.
Jolt offers more generic compliance templates, not tailored to café-specific challenges.
Brewspace dashboards provide real-time visibility into recipes, checklists, and shift operations across one or multiple locations — all actionable insights for operators .
Jolt focuses on task completion and food-safety compliance, but lacks the café-level analytics that matter most to your team.
Brewspace offers a 14-day free trial, no card required — and gets you checking and tracking transitions immediately.
Jolt also offers trials, but with slower onboarding and less coffee-specific utility, you're trading time for less relevant features.
If espresso shots, shift consistency, and barista workflows matter to your bottom line, Brewspace delivers the features and speed you need — without the baggage of enterprise food service tools.
Try Brewspace free for 14 days — no credit card required.
Set up your team, add your checklists and recipes, and start seeing results today.