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The franchisor playbook for brand growth

Replicate your best manager across every location. Get brand-wide visibility into food cost, labor, and operations, without disrupting franchisee tech stacks.

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Restaurant AI ClearCOGS Scalable

Brand-wide systemization without the rollout headaches

ClearCOGS overlays your franchise network’s existing POS and back-office tech, delivering ingredient-level demand forecasting to every manager without asking franchisees to change a single system. The result: your best operator’s playbook, running at every location, every day.

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Built for Long-Term ROI
Brand-Wide Visibility, Store-Level Detail

Corporate teams get dashboards covering every location’s forecast accuracy, food cost movement, and labor efficiency. Drill from network rollup to a single shift in seconds.

Competitive Advantage
Sits on Top of Your Tech Stack

No rip-and-replace. ClearCOGS integrates with Toast, Square, NCR, R365, etc. so that franchisees don’t change anything and your CFO doesn’t have another vendor to consolidate.

Seamless Integration
Built for Easy Franchisee Adoption

We help corporate run pilots, prove ROI to franchisees, and roll out across the network. Bulk pricing for 15+ unit brands keeps the per-location cost low enough to clear any franchisee P&L.

Customizable Solutions
Accuracy You Can Defend Internally

Per-location accuracy benchmarks reported automatically, so your leadership team can set and track measurable KPIs against the forecast and not just hope it’s working.

Predictive Forecasting Tools and Uses

AI-driven forecasting Tools and Uses
ClearCOGS Prep Sheets

Food Prep

Designed to simplify one of the most costly aspects of management: knowing how much food to prepare each day with clear reliable predictions

  • Reduce food waste while ensuring you won’t run out
  • Improve guest dining experiences by consistently meeting customer demand
  • Allow staff to focus on their core tasks, improving workflow and retention
50%

Food Waste Reduction

40%

Profitability Increase

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ClearCOGS Order Guide

Ordering

Our ordering tool predicts exact quantities needed for future orders, ensuring that restaurants are always stocked efficiently.

  • Keep your dollars in the bank, not on the shelves
  • Streamline supplier communication with reliable order patterns
  • Never run out of critical items to avoid lost sales
45%

Average Waste Reduction

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ClearCOGS Labor Forecast

Labor

Data-driven schedules to ensure only the necessary number of employees each shift, for a more efficient workforce

  • Reduce labor costs without sacrificing service
  • Prevent understaffing to avoid missed revenue
  • Aligning labor costs with actual demand, maximizing service efficiency
  • Move beyond sales forecasting and schedule based on metrics that matter to you
20%

Labor Cost Reduction

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ClearCOGS Brand Visibility Dashboard

Brand Visibility

Corporate dashboard allows your team to automatically detect lost revenue on store level in real time.

  • Get control of operations across your brand
  • Identify problem areas on a country, regional, local, or store level
  • Customize dashboard to the areas that you need more insight
200+

Customizable Fields Included in Your Dashboard

How it works

Unlock the power of AI-driven insights tailored for the restaurant industry

What our clients are saying about us
Sandwich

It gives the young managers a real developmental tool that helps their retention and growth into future positions which helps us as we’re growing as a company.

Steve Honner83 Subs – Jimmy John’s Owner & Operator
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Healthy Eating, Sandwich

We were shocked that literally overnight we were able to add 2% to the bottom line with no operational changes using ClearCOGS software.

Matt GivensGoop Kitchen Chef de Cuisine
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Barbeque

They asked me what my exact needs were and what they could do for me, and they made it happen.

Dan MisuracaRed White & Que, Owner and Operator
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Healthy Eating, Sandwich

With ClearCOGS giving us good data it allows us to reduce potential waste, and it saves time for the managers opening.

Jason BrysBreadless Director of Operations
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ClearCOGS sits on top of Toast, Square, NCR, R365, and most major POS and back-office systems. Franchisees don’t switch anything. We pull from the data they already generate, deliver daily forecasts via email, and surface the brand-wide rollup to corporate. No rip-and-replace, no franchisee retraining, no new vendor for your CFO to absorb.

For a full list of our integrations, visit our Partnership page.

We’ve helped multi-brand franchisors do this several ways. The most common path: corporate runs a pilot at 4-12 locations, generates a measurable food cost and labor ROI report, then offers ClearCOGS to the network with bulk pricing that makes the franchisee P&L work. We support the franchisee outreach, demos, and onboarding so corporate doesn’t have to be the salesperson.

ClearCOGS is $150 per location per month at standard pricing. Brands with 15+ units can qualify for bulk discounts, which most franchisors pass on to franchisees. At those rates, the typical franchisee sees full payback within the first one to two months through food cost and labor savings. Calculate your savings or book a meeting to talk through your network specifically.

Those platforms are excellent at inventory management, financial reporting, and forecasting from moving averages. ClearCOGS specializes in ingredient-level demand forecasting using 380+ machine learning models that pick the right one per ingredient, per location, automatically. Most of our enterprise customers run ClearCOGS alongside R365 or CrunchTime, not instead of.

Per location, three weeks from kickoff to live daily reports. For a network rollout, our team can onboard 15-25 locations per week with corporate’s coordination. A 100-unit brand is typically fully live within 8-12 weeks.

No. ClearCOGS sits on top of your existing tech stack. We integrate with the POS, BOH, and inventory tools your network already uses. No vendor consolidation drama, no system change management, no franchisee retraining. Your team adds visibility and accuracy without adding another platform anyone has to log into.

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