Restaurant Operations & Cost Intelligence Platform
Integrated purchasing, recipe costing, production, POS, and BI across locations for real-time visibility into food cost and menu profitability.
Project Overview
The organization needed an integrated platform managing purchasing, inventory, recipe costing, production, POS, and financial reporting across multiple locations, with accurate visibility into food cost and profitability despite changing supplier prices.
- ·Recipe costs shifting with every supplier price change
- ·Disconnected purchasing, kitchen, POS, and finance systems
- ·No reliable visibility into menu-level profitability
- ·Inventory planning across multiple locations was manual
My Role
Aligned operations, kitchen, and finance leadership on requirements.
Mapped kitchen workflows, purchasing, and reporting needs.
Designed BOM, recipe, MRP, and inventory workflows.
Led user acceptance and training across multiple sites.
Built the Power BI analytics layer for management teams.
Coordinated business users and developers through delivery.
Solution · Process Flow
Kitchen, POS, and finance workflow mapping.
Recipes, BOMs, MRP, and reporting structures.
ERP configuration and BI model build-out.
UAT across locations with operational stakeholders.
Site-by-site training and go-live.
Dashboard Gallery
Representative views from the Power BI environment delivered for this engagement. Click any tile to enlarge.
Business Impact
Management sees margin per item as supplier prices move.
Cost trends and price-increase signals surface early.
Replenishment driven by data, not gut feel.
Performance compared cleanly across locations.
Purchasing, kitchen, POS, and finance speak one language.
Recurring reports distributed automatically to stakeholders.
Technologies Used
Key Learnings
Operational data is only useful when finance and operations share definitions.
Dynamic costing changes the conversation about menu engineering.
Multi-site rollouts succeed when each location owns its training plan.