Qu + ClearCOGS: the order today, the plan for tomorrow.
Qu captures orders across the counter, the drive-thru, kiosks and online, and each check records what actually sold. ClearCOGS reads that check history through a live, read-only connection and answers the question a POS is not built to answer: what should this location prep, order and staff tomorrow? ClearCOGS and Qu have been under mutual NDA since 2024, and the data connection is live today.
Book a MeetingWhat the integration delivers
ClearCOGS pulls checks from Qu for each location you authorize: what sold and when. Read access only, so nothing is written back to your POS.
That check history, combined with weather, local events and seasonality, becomes an item-level prep forecast: the amount to make and the ceiling that stops over-prepping. It lands in managers’ inboxes every morning.
The demand forecast also drives purchasing guidance and a daily labor budget, so managers order what the week needs and schedule to the traffic that is actually coming, not last week’s gut feel.
Powering smarter Qu 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 Qu + ClearCOGS
The Qu data connection is live and stable today. Adding a Qu location means granting ClearCOGS read access to that location’s data; your implementation rep walks you through exactly what to send.
The connection is one-way. Your team rings up, closes checks and manages menus in Qu exactly as before; ClearCOGS works from the data, never inside the POS.
Most brands go from kickoff to live forecasts in about three weeks, with nothing to install in the kitchen and no new screens for the crew to learn.
Groups rarely run a single system. Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony sit on the same one-way read model as Qu, so brands on Qu and brands on something else get the same daily plan from one forecasting layer.
After you authorize access, ClearCOGS pulls checks from Qu and combines that sales history with weather, local events and seasonality to forecast demand. The result is an item-level prep sheet, ordering guidance and a labor budget, delivered every morning. The connection only reads data; it never writes to Qu.
Book a meeting. If it is a fit, your ClearCOGS implementation rep tells you exactly where to send the access request to Qu and which locations to list; once Qu grants read access, we take it from there. Most brands see their first prep sheet in about three weeks.
Let your implementation contact know which locations run Qu, or answer one of your morning prep sheet emails, and we will tell you exactly where to send the access request to Qu. Once checks are flowing, your forecasts pick up the Qu history with no change to your daily routine.
No. The connection is read-only. ClearCOGS reads check data out of Qu and writes nothing back, so menus, item prices, order routing and reporting in Qu stay exactly as you configured them.
Check-level sales history: which items sold and when, which is exactly the history a demand forecast needs. ClearCOGS works from that history, not from your Qu configuration, so there is nothing to rebuild on the POS side.
Putting ClearCOGS prep targets on Qu’s kitchen display is a future possibility the two teams have discussed, not something available today. Right now, prep sheets arrive by email each morning.
ClearCOGS works with Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony as well as Qu, each through one-way read access to sales data, so a group with Qu in one brand and a different system elsewhere gets one forecasting layer over all of it.
About ClearCOGS and Qu
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 managers start the day with an answer instead of a guess. ClearCOGS serves 300+ restaurant brands.
Qu is an intelligent commerce platform built for multi-unit QSR, drive-thru and fast-casual brands. It brings POS, kiosk, drive-thru, online and third-party ordering together with kitchen display and unified menu management in one system.
Thirty minutes is enough to see what your Qu history says about tomorrow. If your locations run Qu, the connection is live today, and most brands get their first prep sheet in about three weeks.