Culinary IQ (CIQ)

A unified AI + Business + Data Intelligence platform that automates, analyzes, and optimizes every critical restaurant workflow:

Culinary IQ: An Innovative Knowledge SaaS for the restaurant GM role>

Automated reporting and real-time insights significantly reduce labor and management time, saving each restaurant an estimated $25k–$85k annually while enabling faster operational decisions.

Labor optimization techniques further drive down costs by 2–6% through improved scheduling and hourly models, and enterprise-wide rollups save analysts up to 20 hours per week.

Key operational workflows: data integration, analysis and transformation, reporting, forecasting and messaging are fully automated.

Menu analysis identifies profitable items for promotion and flags inefficiencies, while forecasting enhances revenue by 1–4% via better preparation and staffing.

CIQ ensures a rapid return on investment, typically within two to four weeks of deployment.

The CIQ product :

CIQ offers a comprehensive suite of advanced features designed to empower restaurant and hospitality businesses. Its automated data aggregation seamlessly integrates information from POS systems like SpotOn, labor systems, Tripleseat events, and more, providing a unified view of operations.

The platform leverages GPT-powered AI to generate executive headlines and actionable insights, making data-driven decisions effortless. Its hybrid forecasting engine combines machine learning and large language models to accurately predict revenue, guest counts, orders, and labor needs.

CIQ also enables cross-period benchmarking, allowing management and staff to compare performance across multiple timeframes, while menu and labor intelligence tools highlight top and bottom sellers, cost trends, and staffing recommendations.

Multi-unit reporting ensures a unified data layer across different brands, channels, and restaurant concepts, streamlining management and strategic planning.

CIQ Delivers Daily and Weekly In-Depth and Comprehensive KPI Analysis, Chatgpt Narratives and Action Items on critical operations and data.

CIQ Vision and Future Features:

• Automated Distribution Workflows: Ensure intelligence reaches the right stakeholders automatically via email, messaging, etc.

• Dashboard UI & Chatbot Integration: Real-time daily performance monitoring. Natural language queries: “Why were labor costs high yesterday?” “What should we staff tomorrow night?”

• Restaurant Food & Inventory Management: Extend CIQ beyond reporting into cost control and margin protection. Ingredient-level inventory tracking, vendor and supplier integration.

• Enterprise CIQ Version: Enable CIQ to operate as a multi-tenant, enterprise-grade SaaS platform

CIQ Delivers In-Depth and Comprehensive KPI Analysis, Chatgpt Narratives and Action Items on critical operations and data.

CIQ Vision and Future Features:

• Enhanced Reporting & Intelligence: Enterprise Reporting Enhancements.

• Agentic Workflow Integration:

  • Automated social media content creation (daily specials, events)

  • Automated customer service email responses

  • Automated food inventory ordering

  • Automated employee notifications (schedule changes, alerts)

• Workforce Optimization: Labor Intelligent scheduling.

• Customer Experience Intelligence:  Guest behavior analysis.

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