Forecasting and Planning

If each of your restaurants could accurately predict the future, they could avoid product shortages, reduce waste, eliminate overtime, and achieve their performance targets every day. Forecasting precision is imperative to increasing profitability, delivering a superior brand experience, and controlling costs. That’s why CrunchTime! analyzes every element of transaction history at every moment of every day.

CrunchTime! forecasts sales dollars, inventory levels, guest traffic, order quantities, and production needs based on historical consumption patterns, sales trends, seasonality, special promotions and current on-hand levels. The power of CrunchTime!’s enterprise forecasting engine begins with building correlations between sales, food, and labor – the three variables of restaurant success. While your custom staffing templates provide the framework for ‘right staffing’ each restaurant, CrunchTime! associates staffing needs to the items you sell – creating a comprehensive 360 degree future forecast.

Through central configuration, the CrunchTime! algorithms reflect your business model while dynamically learning from history and real-time data to increase restaurant forecasting precision.

• Improve Production Accuracy - Whether your production model is based upon day-part schedules or your kitchen is a more fluid operation throughout the day, CrunchTime! calculates precise future production needs based on historical consumption patterns, thaw times, shelf life of finished goods, and forecasted sales and guest traffic. By increasing the accuracy of production forecasting, each restaurant will dramatically reduce over-production, waste, and shortages.
• Intelligent Staffing - Reduce costs associated with over-staffing while balancing employee availability, skill levels, and customer demand by creating intelligent staffing plans. CrunchTime! forecasts staffing needs based on the correlations between your optimum staffing models, menu items sold, historical traffic patterns, and actual sales dollars. In addition to controlling labor costs, CrunchTime! controls labor costs AND creates intelligent staffing plans to improve your operations.
• Suggested Ordering - Simplify ordering at the store level with system-generated suggested ordering that is based on configurable par levels, historical consumption patterns, sales forecasts and on-hand inventory levels, allowing you to maintain optimal inventory levels at all times.
• Customized Forecasting - No two restaurant companies run their business exactly the same. CrunchTime! understands that and provides a console of ‘levers’ that you can adjust to customize the forecasting algorithms to match your business model. This includes specifying the forecasting granularity to be by day, day-part, hour, half-hour, or 15 minute intervals.