Real-Time Intelligence

The dashboard that answers before you ask.

Sales by hour. Table turn time. Food-cost drift. Top-performing servers. Wine velocity. Forecasted covers. Every metric that used to live in a spreadsheet built the morning after — now in real time on any phone.

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What it does

Six capabilities. One module.

Every capability listed below is included in the base module. No add-ons, no unlock fees, no per-seat surcharges. If you're on xRESTAURANTx, you have this.

1

Sales by hour, day, week, year

Compare tonight to last Friday, to last month, to last year same-day. Trend lines that update as the register rings.

2

Table turn time

Average dwell per table, per section, per server. Slow turns flag the section that needs help — usually a captain issue, not a server issue.

3

Food-cost drift

Actual cost vs recipe cost, per dish, per week. Drift means the yield is off or the price of an input moved. You see it before the P&L does.

4

Server leaderboards

Sales per hour, tip percentage, wine-attach rate, upsell close rate. Great managers use this to coach, not to shame.

5

Wine velocity

Bottles per week, by SKU. Slow-movers stay off the reorder list. Fast-movers land in the sommelier's featured spot before the case sells through.

6

Forecasted covers

Tomorrow's dinner covers, predicted from weather, day-of-week, past pattern, active reservations. Prep and staffing decisions get 24-hour lead time.

Tutorial

How to use it. Step by step.

Every operator we onboard runs this same tutorial in their first week. Most complete it in one sit-down; the whole team is comfortable inside two shifts.

01

The morning coffee dashboard

Open the app first thing. Last night's numbers are already loaded. Sales, covers, avg check, tip percentage, top-performing server, biggest food-cost drift, and any exception the system wants you to see.

💡 The morning dashboard is designed for 90 seconds of reading. If you're spending more than 2 minutes, we've failed.
02

Server coaching mode

Tap a server to see their week — hours, covers, sales per hour, tip percentage, wine attach, dessert attach. Great for 1:1s. The system flags coaching opportunities — 'Marcos's dessert attach is 4% under section average'.

03

Food-cost drift alerts

Set your alert threshold — 2%, 3%, 5% cost drift on any dish, flagged the moment the trailing 7-day average crosses it. Chef gets the alert; you get the summary in the morning dashboard.

💡 Cost drift is usually the yield on a prep item shifting — the sous chef changed how they portion the mushroom demi and the cost per plate moved. Catch this at 3% drift, not at end-of-month.
04

Forecasted covers + staffing

The forecaster looks at day-of-week, weather, active reservations, and past pattern to predict tomorrow night's covers within 8–12%. Use it to schedule confidently — no more overtime for 12 covers, no more slammed floor for 200.

05

Multi-location rollup

If you own 3 locations or 30, the group dashboard rolls everything up. Filter by unit, region, or franchise segment. Drill into any single location without switching apps.

💡 The rollup dashboard is what franchise HQs use most. It's the difference between running a group and getting lost in it.

Included in every deployment.

xRESTAURANTx modules are not sold separately. Bundle everything — you pay one flat rate keyed to your restaurant's size, not a per-module upsell.

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Use cases

Where this module earns its keep.

Concrete scenarios from actual operators using the module in production. Every scenario carries a metric or a mechanism, not a marketing slogan.

The GM who caught a food-cost problem before the P&L did SINGLE UNIT

Cost drift alerted on ribeye at day 4 of the trend. Sous chef discovered the new supplier's yield was 6% lower than the prior. Restaurant switched suppliers the same week and never took the P&L hit.

  • Alerts fire on trailing 7-day drift
  • Chef gets the item-level detail, GM gets the summary
  • Rolls up to the P&L view so you see it in dollars, not just percentages
SINGLE UNIT

The 40-unit group where every unit's numbers are visible before the coffee gets cold FRANCHISE HQ

6 AM the executive dashboard shows every unit's sales, covers, tip percentage, cost drift, and staffing forecast. Regional VP zeroes in on the two underperforming units and calls before their GMs are out of bed.

  • Every unit's KPIs on one grid
  • Drilldown to any unit's server, dish, and shift
  • Weekly benchmark reports auto-email to the region VP
FRANCHISE HQ
FAQ

Answers before you have to ask.

How real-time is real-time?

Register-close events push to the dashboard within 3 seconds. Aggregates (hourly, daily) recompute every 30 seconds. If you're watching tonight, you're seeing this hour.

Can I export to my accounting system?

Yes. QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite — all supported. Daily batch settlement flows to your GL with mapped accounts.

Is this available on mobile?

Yes. The app is a PWA. Save to home screen on iOS or Android. Same functionality as the browser.

Related modules

Modules that pair naturally.

xRESTAURANTx modules are designed to work together. These four are the ones most operators use alongside Owner Analytics.

Ready to see it running?

Book a 20-minute demo. We'll walk through Owner Analytics on your actual menu and show you how it lands on the floor.

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