The POS you already run, plus tomorrow’s plan built from the sales it records.
Aloha records what each location sold, item by item, hour by hour. ClearCOGS takes that history through scheduled exports and file feeds, adds weather, local events and seasonality, and answers three questions for every store before doors open: what to prep, what to order, and how many hours to schedule. Managers open the day with a number instead of a guess.
Hear Benny Tadele on the Restaurant AI PodcastWhat Aloha operators get from the integration
ClearCOGS reads item-level sales by location and day from the Aloha export and turns it into a morning prep sheet: each item, the amount to make, and the ceiling that stops over-prep.
The same feed drives purchasing guidance, so managers order against the coming week’s expected sales rather than a copy of last week’s invoice.
Daily sales forecasts for every location set the hours each shift can support, delivered before the roster is built so the plan and the schedule match.
Powering smarter restaurant kitchens with ClearCOGS forecasts
Menu Forecasting
We tell you exactly how many chicken tenders, greek salads, or tater tots you’ll need to have ready the next day.
Average Waste Reduction
Labor Forecasting
Schedule your staff with confidence using ClearCOGS labor budget guidance.
Lower Labor Costs
Sales Forecasting
Daily sales forecasts for every location, delivered before the day starts.
Data Points
Why operators run ClearCOGS on top of Aloha
The scheduled export does the carrying. No new terminals, no retraining, and your team uses Aloha exactly as it did yesterday.
ClearCOGS takes a copy of your sales data and never writes back. Menus, pricing and check flow inside Aloha stay exactly as you set them.
The ClearCOGS team sets up the export with you or your IT contact during onboarding. Across ClearCOGS customers, kickoff to the first daily plan takes about three weeks.
Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony are among the major POS systems ClearCOGS integrates with, and Aloha runs the same way: one-way read access to sales data, nothing more.
ClearCOGS pulls sales data from Aloha through scheduled exports and file feeds, on a cadence set during onboarding. That history feeds each location’s forecast, and the finished plan lands in your managers’ inboxes every morning, with nothing exported by hand or keyed in.
Book a meeting. During onboarding the ClearCOGS team sets up the scheduled Aloha export with you or your IT contact, then switches on the daily plan store by store. Plan on about three weeks from kickoff to live.
Tell your ClearCOGS Implementation rep which locations run Aloha. We set up the scheduled export for those stores and fold them into the daily plan your other locations already receive.
No. The connection is read-only. ClearCOGS takes a copy of your sales data through the export and never writes back, so menus, pricing, check flow and reporting inside Aloha are untouched.
Item-level sales history by location and day. ClearCOGS combines it with weather, local events and seasonality to build each location’s prep quantities, ordering guidance and labor budget. Across ClearCOGS customers that adds up to a 55% average waste reduction and 10+ hours saved per manager, every week (company-stated).
Aloha joins Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony on the list of major POS systems ClearCOGS integrates with. In each case ClearCOGS takes one-way read access to sales data, so the way your team uses the POS never changes.
Most restaurant software reports what happened last week. An Operational Decision Platform (ODP) starts from the same POS data and hands each location its answer for tomorrow: what to prep, what to order, how many hours to schedule. With Aloha as the source, that answer is waiting before the first ticket of the day.
About ClearCOGS and NCR Voyix
ClearCOGS is the Operational Decision Platform (ODP) for restaurants. It turns POS data into tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan for each location, so the team on the floor has its answer before service starts. Today 300+ restaurant brands run their mornings on ClearCOGS.
NCR Voyix is an Atlanta-based provider of a unified commerce platform for restaurants and retailers, spanning point of sale, payments, operations and loyalty; Aloha is its restaurant POS. Benny Tadele, EVP and President of Restaurants at NCR Voyix, joined the Restaurant AI Podcast in October 2026 to explain why the company rebuilt Aloha from the ground up and why your next POS should not be a POS.
Book a meeting, tell us how many locations run Aloha, and we will walk through what their first morning plan looks like.