Tray runs the shift. ClearCOGS plans the next one.
A point of sale takes orders and settles checks; it does not tell a kitchen how many biscuits to bake on Saturday or how many cooks a rainy Tuesday needs. ClearCOGS answers those questions from a restaurant’s sales history and sends each location its plan before the doors open.
Talk to our teamHow ClearCOGS runs alongside Tray
ClearCOGS forecasts from POS transaction history: which items sold, how many, when and where. Add seasonality, weather and local events, and you get tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan for each location.
ClearCOGS never sits in the order flow. Tray keeps taking orders and closing checks; ClearCOGS sits above it as a planning layer, and onboarding confirms how each location’s sales history reaches us.
The plan arrives by email each morning, item by item, with an expected amount and a ceiling. Nobody re-keys sales or learns a new screen.
ClearCOGS Compatible means Tray can run alongside ClearCOGS; it is not a formal partnership. Tray keeps its role at the register, and ClearCOGS adds the planning layer on top.
Not directly. Where ClearCOGS does connect to a point of sale, access is one-way and read-only: sales data comes out, nothing goes in. There is no direct Tray data connection today; if your locations run Tray, say so on the first call and our team will confirm how your sales history reaches ClearCOGS.
No. ClearCOGS never writes to a point of sale and never touches menus, pricing or checks.
Most restaurants go live about three weeks after kickoff, and your team keeps ringing up sales on Tray the whole time.
About ClearCOGS and Tray
ClearCOGS is the Operational Decision Platform (ODP) for restaurants: each location gets tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan before the day starts, built from its own POS sales history. Today 300+ restaurant brands plan their day with ClearCOGS.
Tray is a Miami-based restaurant technology company whose cloud point-of-sale, kitchen display, kiosk and online ordering products serve multi-unit restaurant brands.
Book a 30-minute call and we’ll walk through what tomorrow’s prep and labor plan looks like for a location like yours, and how it would land at your Tray restaurants.