Butcher and Bee

What Butcher and Bee does

Butcher & Bee is a privately held farm-to-table restaurant group operating two locations in the United States — Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina. The company serves seasonal American cuisine built around direct relationships with local farmers and suppliers, with a stated emphasis on heirloom vegetables and pasture-raised meats. Customers can dine in for brunch (Nashville, weekends) and dinner (both locations, seven days a week), or order takeout via the Upserve online ordering platform and delivery via DoorDash (Charleston). Additional revenue streams include private event hosting at the Nashville location and physical/digital gift cards sold through Upserve. The business positions a Chef's Choice curated, family-style dining experience as its distinctive offering, encouraging shared plates and a tasting-style format rather than traditional a la carte ordering.

The company's underlying technology stack is intentionally lightweight: a content-driven marketing website at butcherandbee.com, the Upserve SaaS platform for online ordering and gift card fulfillment, and a DoorDash integration for third-party delivery. There are no proprietary software products, mobile applications, APIs, or AI/ML components disclosed. Customer segmentation is horizontal, targeting individuals and families seeking high-quality, transparently sourced farm-to-table meals; no B2B or institutional client base is referenced. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and the revenue model relies on standard one-time dine-in transactions plus transactional delivery fees via DoorDash.

Butcher & Bee is independently owned and operated, with no parent company, no disclosed funding rounds, no subsidiaries, and no M&A activity in the data. The Charleston location's 2022 finalist status for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant (top five nationally, recognizing five or more years of consistent excellence) is the primary external validation of brand quality. Geographic footprint is concentrated in the Southeast United States, with no disclosed international or additional domestic expansion plans.

Name

Butcher and Bee

Legal name

Butcher & Bee

Website

https://butcherandbee.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Farm-to-Table Restaurant Services

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm-to-Table & Contemporary American Restaurants (THAFACAF)

Keywords

• Farm-to-table dining
• Seasonal American cuisine
• Brunch and dinner service
• Private event hosting
• Restaurant gift cards

Headquarters

HQ city

Charleston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Dine-in Restaurant Service: Revenue generated from in-restaurant dining, including brunch and dinner service. Customers can order a la carte or through the chef's choice experience.
2. Takeout: Revenue from online takeout orders placed through Upserve platform
3. Delivery: Revenue from delivery orders through DoorDash third-party platform

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Butcher & Bee is a farm-to-table restaurant group operating two locations (Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina) that serves seasonal American cuisine built around heirloom vegetables and pasture-raised meats sourced directly from local farmers and suppliers. The core offering is on-premises brunch and dinner dining service, supplemented by an a la carte menu and a curated Chef's Choice family-style tasting experience, plus online takeout ordering and third-party delivery.

Product overview

Butcher & Bee is a farm-to-table restaurant group operating two locations (Nashville, TN and Charleston, SC) that serves seasonal American cuisine built around relationships with local farmers and suppliers. The company offers a unified hospitality experience encompassing dine-in restaurant service, takeout/online ordering, third-party delivery integration, private event hosting, and gift card sales. The core offering is the restaurant itself, with brunch and dinner service featuring heirloom vegetables and pasture-raised meats, complemented by an optional Chef's Choice tasting experience served family-style.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Butcher & Bee Restaurant (Dine-In) Farm-to-table restaurant offering seasonal American cuisine built around heirloom vegetables and pasture-raised meats, served in a family-style format at two physical locations. Hours at Nashville include brunch Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm and dinner Monday-Thursday and Sunday 5pm-9:30pm, Friday-Saturday 5pm-10pm.
• Takeout/To-Go Ordering Web-based ordering service that allows customers to place pickup orders at the Charleston or Nashville locations through the Upserve platform.
• DoorDash Delivery Off-premises delivery for the Charleston location fulfilled through the DoorDash third-party platform, enabling customers to order Butcher & Bee food for home delivery.
• Chef's Choice Experience A curated multi-course dining experience where the chef selects dishes and serves them family-style for sharing, offered in addition to the a la carte menu.
• Private Events Event hosting services including corporate events, celebrations, and gatherings at the Nashville location for organized groups.
• Gift Cards Digital and physical gift cards available for purchase through the UpServe platform, redeemable at Butcher & Bee.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Blue Hill at Stone Barns: Pioneering farm-to-table restaurant in the Hudson Valley built on direct farm relationships and a chef-curated tasting format; an aspirational, philosophically aligned peer for Chef's Choice experiential dining.
• Sqirl: Los Angeles farm-to-table daytime concept known for grain bowls and seasonal jams with a strong takeout/delivery business model — a comparable analogue for Butcher & Bee's takeout channel.
• Olamaie: Nashville farm-to-table Southern restaurant sourcing from regional farms; operates at a similar check average and shared-segment dinner-daypart, competing for the same Nashville diner.
• Husk Restaurant: Sean Brock's farm-to-table Southern restaurant with locations in Nashville and Charleston, sharing identical two-market footprint, supplier-relationship model, and James Beard-aligned positioning as Butcher & Bee.
• The Ordinary: Charleston seafood and raw bar concept operated by the same Neighborhood Dining Group behind FIG; directly competitive on Charleston dinner demand and similar seasonal sourcing philosophy.
• FIG: Mike Lata's flagship seasonal/farm-to-table restaurant in Charleston with the same pasture-raised, local-supplier ethos and comparable fine-dining positioning and check average.
• McCrady's Restaurant: Historic Charleston fine-dining institution offering tasting-menu-driven seasonal cuisine — comparable as a high-end Charleston dinner destination competing for the same occasion-driven guest.

Regional players

• Peninsula Grill: Charleston fine-dining destination in the Planters Inn; competes with Butcher & Bee for upscale Charleston dinner demand and has been similarly recognized for culinary excellence (AAA Five Diamond status).
• Halls Chophouse: Upscale Charleston steakhouse competing for the same destination/dinner demand in Charleston; less aligned on sourcing philosophy but directly comparable on check average and dining-occasion segment.

Broad incumbents

• Sweetgreen: National farm-to-table chain with broad consumer brand recognition; demonstrates what scaled-out farm-to-table capitalization looks like, providing a reference point for Butcher & Bee's multi-unit growth ceiling.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/butcherandbee

Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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