You know what sold last night. Do you know what it cost you?
Thin margins, long hours, and data your tools already have — just not connected.
Restaurants, bars, and breweries run on thin margins, long hours, and instinct. You know which nights are busy and which are slow. You know your popular dishes. But do you know which busy nights were actually profitable after labor and waste? Do you know the real margin on each menu item when ingredient costs change month to month? Your tools have the answers. They’re just not talking to each other.
Your data stack
We know the ecosystem: Toast, Square, Clover, or Aloha for your POS. QuickBooks or Xero for your books. OpenTable or Resy for reservations. 7shifts or Homebase for labor scheduling. MarketMan or BlueCart for inventory. Mailchimp or Constant Contact for email. Google Business Profile, Yelp, TripAdvisor for your online presence. Each of these tools does its job. None of them shows you how the jobs connect.
What we connect and what it reveals
POS + Accounting. Daily revenue next to actual cost of goods and labor. Real margin. Menu item performance ranked by profit contribution, not just popularity.
POS + Labor scheduling. Labor cost ratio by day and shift. Where staffing doesn't match volume.
Marketing + Revenue. Which marketing channels actually drive paying customers. The difference between a full dining room and a profitable one.
Reviews + Operations. Review sentiment tracked over time, connected to what was actually happening operationally.
External data. Weather patterns correlated with traffic. Local event schedules connected to demand forecasting.
What an insight looks like
“Weekend dinner revenue was up 12% over the previous week, but net margin was flat. Labor ran at 34% of revenue against your 28% target. Your highest-volume item has a 62% margin, but the second-most popular item is running at 41% because ingredient costs rose 8% last month and the menu price hasn't moved.”
“Your Tuesday lunch traffic has been declining for six weeks. Your email open rates for Tuesday promotions are strong (28%), but the click-through to your reservation page is 3%. The landing page loads in 6.2 seconds on mobile. Your competitor down the street launched a Tuesday lunch special three weeks ago.”