AI Advisor
The five minutes of advice you would pay a consultant for
Every morning the Advisor reads across all of CADENCE and ranks the moves that matter - costliest and most urgent first. Never a bare metric, never a vague 'look into this': each item names the dollars on the table and the one specific thing to do about it. The same digest goes out as your 7AM briefing.
CADENCE surfaces operational estimates to help you run your restaurant. They are not financial, accounting, tax, or legal advice. Confirm material decisions with a qualified professional.
$17.5K
/mo on the table$17.5K a month is on the table across 7 items. Here is where to start.
Wood-Grilled Salmon is your biggest margin drain
Re-portion it, re-negotiate the protein, or nudge the price a dollar.
Fix it in Recipe CostingBy pillar
Profit
3 open items
Cash
Projected cash stays above your buffer.
Operations
2 open items
Guests
2 open items
The Advisor recomputes this feed live every time you open it, reading across every module at once. The dollar figure is recurring monthly profit - the dash means that pillar is holding.
On the table
$17.5K
Recurring monthly profit to recover
Act now
2
Items need you today
Opportunities
5
Worth working this week
Morning briefing
7:00 AM
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Wood-Grilled Salmon is your biggest margin drain
$2.9per plate recovered
It runs at 41.2% food cost, 9.2% over its 32% target. At a $32.00 menu price the plate costs $13.18. Bringing it to target recovers about $2.94 on every plate you sell.
Do this - Re-portion it, re-negotiate the protein, or nudge the price a dollar.
A 2-star review is still unanswered
5 reviews are waiting on a reply, including a 2.0-star on Google that is dragging your public average right where new guests look first. A fast, gracious response is the cheapest reputation insurance there is.
Do this - Answer it in the Reputation tab while it is still recent.
Food cost is running 4.1% hot
$11.2Kper month in overspend
Your 30-day food cost is 34.1% against a 30% target. On $273K of sales that gap is real money walking out the back door every month.
Do this - Open Recipe Costing and re-work the dishes furthest over target first.
$2K a month is leaking to shrinkage
$2Kper month in shrinkage
Actual food cost is running ahead of what your recipes and sales say it should be. That is 3.1% of theoretical you are buying but not selling. Over-portioning, waste, comps, or theft - the gap is the single most recoverable dollar in the kitchen.
Do this - Spot-check portioning and the waste log on the worst line.
4 regulars are slipping away
$1.8Kof lifetime value at risk
$1.8K of lifetime value sits in guests who have gone quiet or already lapsed. They are already segmented for a win-back SMS - one honest "we miss you" beats acquiring a stranger every time.
Do this - Send the win-back to the at-risk and lapsed segment.
Jordan Avery is sliding on food cost
Jordan Avery's food cost drifted 2.3% versus their own prior period. Catching it now is a quiet word; catching it in the month-end P&L is a hard conversation.
Do this - Coach from the number on their next shift, before it compounds.
Labor is 1.6% over target
$4.4Kper month over target
Labor ran 31.6% of sales this period against your 30% target. Prime cost is sitting at 65.7% - the band where a thin month turns into a loss.
Do this - Tighten the schedule on the slow shifts the forecast already flags.
Ranked by urgency, then by the monthly dollars at stake. Dismiss an item to drop it for good, or snooze it to revisit on its own schedule - either way the feed recomputes clean on your next visit.