MarketMan: Restaurant Inventory Management, a Meal Ticket portfolio product

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Some ingredients need to be used up quickly to *avoid losing profit* How is AI helping restaurants solve this problem? The old way: Take inventory, manually note quantities, create recipes, and upload them to your system. The AI way: Enter a dish name, and AI suggests a recipe using ingredients you already have. Refine the recipe by confirming ingredients and entering quantities. And bonus: calculate the recipe cost in real-time. AI Recipe Building is only one of the 5 ways AI is transforming restaurant operations: https://lnkd.in/eFCzWU6H

Let's say a kitchen preps 10 lbs of cookie dough every day. But 2 lbs is missing by the end of the month. Where'd it go? What happened? And are all locations following the recipes? Rather than spend hours searching through sheets of paper to uncover the mystery... Easily pull up waste reports and view logged waste events. "If they're making batter, they have a screen to punch it in right then and there," says Lewis Hart, Director of Operations for Cafe Crepe. Now the numbers are right from the beginning, and they get to skip the hours of troubleshooting: "All they have to look at now is whether the recipes are being made correctly and what was rung into the POS system.” This kind of control is something you need to see for yourself: https://lnkd.in/dUPPuUsy

Prep happens every day. How often does guesswork eat into your bottom line? Protect profits by giving staff everything they need–on a mobile device. Full recipes? Detailed prep instructions? Logging production? Just a few taps away. Profits go up when prep happens quicker and recipes are followed closely. Faster prep, less hassle, and more accuracy. Every minute counts in a kitchen and efficiency = profit.?

The future of restaurants matters. This industry has seen it all — shifting costs, evolving trends, constant change — and yet it keeps going. Resiliency and restaurants have always gone hand in hand. Technology helps you navigate it all. You've got this.

If you're manually entering vendor invoices, mistakes are likely being made. Tired eyes can lead to missed credit adjustments.? Late-night data checks can lead to overlooking price changes. "We're on track" can lead to "how did this happen" or "so much for the budget" Manually entering invoices take hours and can lead to mistakes. Automating this process means fewer errors and way less stress—sounds like a win, right?

AI is working behind the scenes—how much do you notice it?

The future of restaurant operations is changing—and fast. Here are *4 predictions* on how #AI will shape the restaurant industry in 2025 and beyond: 1. AI will reduce food waste: By predicting demand and adjusting orders in real-time, AI is making waste a thing of the past. 2. Smarter ordering, less guesswork: AI will predict exactly what you need, minimizing over-ordering and stockouts. 3. Invoice management will be automated: Easily scan invoices with AI & save hours of admin work. 4. Data-driven decisions will lead to higher profitability: With AI-driven insights, restaurants can cut costs, reduce errors, and maximize margins.

Putting your restaurant's invoices in a pile and dealing with them later? We get it. Sometimes, it's the only option when you're running a busy kitchen. Then, it starts taking longer than you expected. Then, you might miss credit adjustments or price changes. Then, you're rushing to match invoices with deliveries. Then, reconciliation gets delayed because things don’t line up. Good news: there's an easier way. Snap a quick photo of your paper invoice and MarketMan will do the work for you. No more paper, no more problems. ??