What COGS-Well does
COGS-Well is inventory, recipe and cost management software for restaurant brands and multi-location groups: automated invoice processing, mobile counts, recipe costing, suggested ordering, and prep, production and waste tracking. ClearCOGS answers a different question: what each location will sell tomorrow and what to prep, order and staff to meet it. One system prices the food; the other plans it. ClearCOGS and COGS-Well are working together for the operators who run both.
Talk to our teamWhy it matters to operators
ClearCOGS gives each item an expected quantity and a maximum for tomorrow. COGS-Well knows what each recipe costs. Read together, the morning prep sheet becomes a cost you can review before the first pan goes on.
COGS-Well suggests orders from your counts and usage. A ClearCOGS forecast shows what each location is about to sell, so order quantities can follow next week’s traffic instead of last month’s average.
COGS-Well’s waste tracking shows where product was lost. Over-prep is where a lot of it starts, and a forecast with a ceiling on each item is how ClearCOGS customers report a 55% average waste reduction.
How a ClearCOGS customer benefits
If you already wake up to a ClearCOGS prep sheet, COGS-Well puts a recipe cost behind each line, so the plan reads in dollars as well as portions.
COGS-Well counts show where actual usage drifted from theoretical. Hold that against what ClearCOGS said to make, and you can tell whether the gap came from the plan or from the line.
ClearCOGS reads POS sales history through one-way access and delivers the plan by email each morning. COGS-Well keeps running your invoices, counts and recipes. Neither asks you to change the other.
ClearCOGS and COGS-Well are working together for operators who run both. Some ClearCOGS customers already use COGS-Well for inventory and recipe costing, and neither company asks you to change how you use the other.
ClearCOGS does not need a connection to COGS-Well to work. It builds forecasts from your POS sales history; COGS-Well runs from your invoices, counts and recipes. Operators already run the two side by side, and the teams are working together on how the forecast and the recipe costs can fit more closely.
COGS-Well manages inventory: invoices, counts, recipe costing, suggested ordering, and waste tracking. ClearCOGS is not an inventory system. It forecasts what each location will sell and turns that into tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan. One is the record of what you have; the other is the plan for what comes next.
Book a meeting. ClearCOGS connects to your POS with one-way read access (Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony among others), builds each location’s forecast, and starts sending the daily plan. Most groups are up and running in about three weeks. Your COGS-Well setup does not change.
About ClearCOGS and COGS-Well
ClearCOGS is the Decision Intelligence platform for restaurants. It turns POS data into tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan, so each location’s team knows what to make, buy and staff before the day starts. Today 300+ restaurant brands plan their day on it.
COGS-Well is inventory, recipe and cost management software for restaurant brands and multi-unit groups.
Thirty minutes is enough. If you run COGS-Well, we will walk through how a ClearCOGS forecast sits next to your recipe costs and counts, using your own menu.