Insights that improve
performance and decision-making
with LS First for restaurants
Reports and analytics
Get the insights you need to make timely, profitable decisions. Analyze performance by location, menu item, shift, employee. Track trends and move faster. Understand your operational strength, and devise a winning business strategy.
Track and improve performance
Are the weekly specials bringing in repeated business? Is there a menu item that’s too expensive to produce? Analyze the factors that affect your business operations and adjust your strategy.
- Monitor sales and margin performance in real time, wherever you are.
- Get all the insights you need in one central place.
- Analyze revenue per location, group of locations, geographical area.
- Assess performance per employee or shift, and compare across time periods.
- Track the performance of your loyalty program.
- See what specials, offers, and promotions are delivering returns.
Cut costs and waste
LS First is a unified solution that connects production, purchasing and consumer behavior, and minimizes cost and waste.
- Track menu item popularity across time and locations and align your offering to demand.
- Predictive cost analysis: experiment varying prices, menus and recipes to find the sweet spot with optimum benefit.
- Optimize your staff scheduling across shifts and locations.
- Analyze the ROI of various menu items per popularity, and design a menu with cost-effective dishes.
- Adjust production and purchasing to demand.
Your business, your reports
Use the reports already available with the system, or create and manage your own.
- Track specific KPIs across your owned locations and franchisees.
- Customize reports and visualizations and share them securely with stakeholders in the enterprise.
- Make complex data clear with visualizations and dashboards.
- Analyze your enterprise from a high level, or drill down to the finest details: you decide.
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Leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI)
Use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to find the answers you need.
- Ask questions in natural language and get visual answers.
- Analyze sales trends considering internal and external factors, including big data like weather.
- Identify trends and patterns in customer behavior, forecast changes and adjust your purchasing and staffing decisions.
- Get real-time insights on employee performance, and maximize operational efficiency.
Insight and foresight
Understand your guests
Discover if guests order different items, or larger portions, at the kiosks and on other self-serve devices than at the counter.
Predict behavior
Use the power of AI to analyze past interactions and predict what guests will want tomorrow, factoring in internal and external elements.
Collaborate with other teams
With cloud-based business intelligence, you and your team can work on the same, current information wherever you are.
Move with the trends
Are you selling more vegan dishes than last year? Is curbside pickup suddenly popular? Spot trends and opportunities, and move quickly.
You have questions, we have answers
Choosing the right business management software for your restaurant chain and food service business
can be an overwhelming experience. We are here to help and assist you in answering your questions. Just contact us!
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