The plan hiding in your PDQ data
PDQ records what sold, when, and at which store. ClearCOGS reads that history with your sign-off, writes nothing back, and turns it into tomorrow’s answer for each location: what to prep, how much to order, and how much labor the day can carry. Multi-unit Jimmy John’s franchisees on PDQ, including 83 Subs, get those numbers from ClearCOGS today.
Read the 83 Subs case studyWhat the integration delivers
ClearCOGS reads item-level sales history from PDQ for each location and emails the manager a prep sheet before open: each item, how much to have ready, and where to stop, through close.
The same PDQ history is split by hour, so a manager knows how much bread or product to have ready for each part of the day and when to run the last cycle before close. Built that way, a Jimmy John’s franchisee cut prep waste by 52% (see case study).
Once the sales forecast exists, ClearCOGS uses it for ordering targets and labor budget guidance too, so a store’s three daily decisions come from one set of numbers instead of three gut calls.
Powering smarter PDQ 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 PDQ
Jimmy John’s franchisees on PDQ, 83 Subs among them, run their daily prep off ClearCOGS numbers. Two public case studies are linked below.
Access is read-only and one-way. Your menus, pricing, registers, reports and PDQ support relationship are untouched, and nothing new is installed at the counter.
Kickoff to first prep sheet takes about three weeks. Managers keep the tools they already know: PDQ at the register, a plan in the inbox.
ClearCOGS integrates with major POS systems including Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony, all through one-way read access, so a group running PDQ in one market and another system elsewhere gets one consistent daily plan.
You authorize ClearCOGS to read your PDQ sales history. Each morning, ClearCOGS builds each location’s forecast from that history plus weather, local events and seasonality, and the prep sheet lands in the manager’s inbox before open. The same forecast drives your ordering targets and labor budget guidance. Nothing is sent back into PDQ.
Book a meeting. We walk through your locations and menu, set up read access to PDQ with you, build a forecast per store, and most groups see their first prep sheet in about three weeks. No hardware ships and nobody learns a new system.
Tell your ClearCOGS Implementation rep, or reply to any daily prep email, and name the locations on PDQ. We set up read access for those stores and fold them into the same morning delivery your other locations already get. Stores you open or acquire later follow the same route.
No. The connection is read-only. ClearCOGS reads sales history and never writes to your menu, pricing, registers or reports. PDQ keeps running the front of house exactly as before, and your PDQ support stays with PDQ.
83 Subs, a Jimmy John’s franchisee on PDQ, makes its daily bread and prep calls from ClearCOGS prep sheets, and a second public case study shows how hour-by-hour guidance on PDQ sales cut bread waste at Jimmy John’s stores. On average across ClearCOGS customers: 55% average waste reduction and 10+ hours saved per manager every week.
ClearCOGS integrates with major POS systems including Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony, each through one-way read access to sales data. A group running PDQ alongside another system still gets every store’s plan the same way.
About ClearCOGS and PDQ POS
ClearCOGS is the Decision Intelligence platform for restaurants: it forecasts from POS data and turns it into tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan for each location, before the team needs it. Today 300+ restaurant brands run on it.
PDQ POS is a restaurant and bar point-of-sale system built by Signature Systems, Inc. of Warminster, Pennsylvania, used by quick-service, pizza, bar and multi-unit operators.
Thirty minutes is enough to scope your locations. Most groups are reading their first ClearCOGS prep sheet in about three weeks.