06:00
Spreadsheets you stitched together at dawn.
Numbers from the POS, the payroll system, the purchasing sheet — pulled by hand, reconciled by eye, never finished by the time the floor walks in.
Your Restaurant Learning Model
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guesswork.
An LLM is trained on language. An RLM is trained on a restaurant. Yours. The 86ops RLM ingests every signal your operation generates — POS, payroll, weather, sports, reviews, news, guest behaviour — and builds a model unique to your restaurant. Trained on yours, sharpening every shift.
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30 minutes. No deck. Just your operation, our questions, and a scoped proposal inside a week.
How it works
Your restaurant's nervous system.
- A nervous system connects everything.
- It transmits signals automatically.
- It learns from the bad beatings.
- It learns from the great nights.
- It runs without conscious direction.
- It keeps the organism alive.
That's what your RLM does for your restaurant.
Most software shows you what happened. The 86ops RLM is the system underneath that decides what to do next — automatically, continuously, and with every shift it gets sharper on your specific operation. Not a dashboard. Not a report. A model trained on your restaurant.
Mondays, before 86ops
A restaurant runs on a thousand little decisions nobody had time to make.
11:00
A briefing that never came.
No one walked the floor through what to expect today. No one mentioned tonight's home game, the rain front, the new spot that opened down the block last week.
17:30
The Tuesday surprise no one warned you about.
A 30% spike. A 30% miss. A server underwater on tickets while the next station is empty. By the time you see it on the report, three Tuesdays have already happened.
How your RLM gets sharp
Great day one. Expert by day ninety.
Your RLM calibrates to your specific operation as it ingests your history. Day one, the platform delivers solid briefings, automated reports, and live coaching out of the box. By day ninety, it's analysing more cross-signal data per shift than any management team could keep up with — your weather, your sports overlap, your day-of-week patterns, your guest behaviour, your specific cost-and-revenue rhythm. None of it generic. All of it yours.
It's not artificial intelligence after we've built the brain for your location.
Inside the nervous system
Five fronts. One brain.
86ops is structured the way operators actually run the business — from the floor in real time, to the back office at night, to the program reviews on Sunday morning. The same five fronts you'll use inside the platform every day.
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Live.
The floor in real time. Live pace, AI commentary on what's happening right now, the BOH leaderboard, and the pre-shift briefing — every signal the floor needs the moment they need it.
Explore Live02
The Office.
Daily and weekly financial reporting, budget vs. actuals, P&L narrative, server scoring across seven pillars, labour with payroll learning, receipt OCR with vendor master, and the full cost-of-sales workbook. Every number that used to take a controller's morning, written before yours starts.
Explore the Office03
Marketing.
An automated weekly and monthly playbook — content written, brand voice already learned, campaigns scheduled. Continuous competitor analysis that researches itself, including computer-vision menu extraction and pricing comparison. Sports, weather, and local events all wired into the plan.
Explore Marketing04
Food Program.
Menu intelligence with margin analysis, daypart performance, modifier attach rates, and seasonal recognition. Items that need a push surface in next week's marketing plan automatically — your menu and your marketing speaking to each other. The full historical sales mix feeds pattern detection forever.
Explore Food Program05
Beverage Program.
Three specialist agents — Brewmaster, Sommelier, and Mixologist — review your beer, wine, and cocktail programs every Sunday morning. Grounded in your specific sales, your inventory, your brand voice, and this week's guest sentiment. Not generic recommendations. Your program.
Explore Beverage ProgramWhat's an RLM?
Just like an LLM. But for your restaurant.
A Large Language Model learns the patterns of language by training on enormous amounts of text. A Restaurant Learning Model learns the patterns of one restaurant by training on every signal that restaurant generates — every shift, every weather day, every sports overlap, every guest comment, every cost-and-revenue rhythm.
That's the 86ops RLM. It doesn't generalize from millions of restaurants. It specializes on yours.
Every shift, every prediction, every event — captured, weighed, and rolled into the model. The platform shows you what it's learned about your restaurant, how that learning sharpened the next forecast, and why this Tuesday is going to look different from last Tuesday. Your operation has a record. The record gets longer every day.
That's the moat. We didn't build an AI for restaurants. We built a model for your restaurant.
Open the books on your model
The Learning Log.
The 86ops Learning Log shows you exactly what your RLM has figured out about your operation, how confident it is in each prediction, and which lessons improved your forecast accuracy this week.
Most AI is a black box. Yours is a record.
When the team turns over
Your RLM stays. Heroes get made.
Hospitality runs on people, and people move on. A GM accepts another offer. A star server's last shift is Sunday. The chef leaves for a new concept. Most of what they knew about your operation walks out the door with them — your Tuesdays, your patio rules, your VIP table preferences, your repeat-guest read.
Not anymore. The longer your RLM runs, the more it remembers. The new GM reads the briefing, sees the leaderboard, opens the playbook — and looks like they've been there a year on day one. The new server walks in to a coaching plan tailored to the floor before they've poured a single glass. Continuity is a feature.
ROI
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ROI
Restaurant Operations Intelligence. · Return On Investment.
Same three letters — that's the whole pitch.
The work that disappears
A team of analysts, quietly running.
Every day, for every restaurant, your RLM does the kind of work most operations would need a department to do — and then never sleep.
~3,500
Business signals processed per day
Sales, labour, purchases, reviews, sports schedules, weather forecasts, news headlines, competitor moves, guest comments — every meaningful signal captured and weighed against your history.
~520K
AI tokens processed per day
The pre-shift briefing, the post-mortem, intra-day coaching, three Sunday-morning specialists, learning extraction, marketing plan generation — running quietly across every domain of your operation.
15+
Hours a week reclaimed for leadership
Briefings written. Reports generated. Variances flagged. Coaching surfaced. Marketing planned. The morning rituals and weekly grind that used to eat your management team — gone. Your leaders go back to leading.
Who it's for
Data-rich. Insight-poor.
If you've ever said it about your own operation, this is for you. Your POS, payroll, scheduling, and purchasing systems are sitting on years of gold — and no one has the time to mine it. Your RLM does the mining, every shift, automatically. The phrase becomes obsolete the day you go live.
You know it's all in there — the patterns, the wins, the leaks. You don't need another report. You need the system that reads the reports for you and tells you what to do about it.
Single-location owners who wear too many hats and can't afford to lose another Monday morning to spreadsheets.
GMs who want to coach their team with data, not gut feel — and want every shift to start from a real briefing.
Where the bar program is as much of a draw as the menu — and where the tap list, wine list, or cocktail menu changes with the season, the supplier, or the weather.
Restaurant groups pushing for consistent performance across concepts and locations, with rollup visibility for ownership.
Hospitality companies scaling past the point where the founder can hold every number in their head each week.
FAQ
Straight answers, no sales theatre.
What is a Restaurant Learning Model (RLM)?
Just like a Large Language Model (LLM) is trained on enormous amounts of language, a Restaurant Learning Model is trained on a single restaurant. The 86ops RLM ingests every signal your operation generates — POS, payroll, weather, sports overlap, reviews, news, guest sentiment, your specific cost-and-revenue rhythm — and builds a model unique to your business.
It doesn't generalize from millions of restaurants. It specializes on yours.
How is an RLM different from generic restaurant AI?
Generic restaurant AI is trained on aggregate data — millions of transactions across thousands of locations, none of which are yours. The 86ops RLM learns exclusively from your specific restaurant's history. After 60-90 days it stops being a generic platform and becomes a model trained on you.
That's the moat. It's not artificial intelligence after we've built the brain for your location.
Can I see what the model has actually learned?
Yes. The 86ops Learning Log shows you exactly what your RLM has figured out about your operation, how confident it is in each prediction, and which lessons improved your forecast accuracy this week.
Most AI in this category is a black box. Yours is a record — auditable, operator-readable, and getting longer every day.
What POS and payroll systems does 86ops work with?
86ops ingests point-of-sale, payroll, purchasing, scheduling, and inventory data from the major hospitality systems — including SilverWare, Toast, Square, and other leading POS platforms; Push Operations, 7shifts, and other leading payroll and scheduling systems. We're built for the stack operators actually run. If yours is unusual, we'll tell you up front whether we can connect cleanly or whether a custom integration is needed.
How long until 86ops is actually useful?
The first briefing is great. The ninetieth is something no human team could match.
Most operators are live within two weeks of their first data sync. Your RLM calibrates to your patterns over the first 30 to 60 days — forecasts, briefings, coaching, and recommendations get measurably sharper every week as more history accumulates. The platform shows you exactly what it has learned and how that's changed its predictions.
Do I need a data or analytics team to run 86ops?
No. 86ops is built for operators, not analysts. Every signal is delivered in operator language with a specific action attached — the briefing tells your team what to expect, the leaderboard tells each server what to improve, the marketing plan tells you which channels to push this week, and the weekly report tells you where you moved versus plan.
Even if you can't read a P&L, you can run 86ops. The platform reads it for you and tells you what matters.
Is my data secure and kept separate from other restaurants?
Yes. Every restaurant gets its own isolated environment with role-based access — admins, managers, and staff only see what they should. Data is never pooled or shared between restaurants. Your RLM is trained on your data and only your data. Every export, login, and admin action is audit-logged.
Can 86ops handle multi-unit restaurant groups?
Yes. Each location gets its own RLM tuned to its own concept, patterns, and guest behaviour. Ownership sees rollup performance across every unit; each GM sees only their location. A casual bar and a fine-dining room get different playbooks because they have different data.
How is this different from the reporting already in my POS?
POS reports tell you what happened. Your RLM tells you why it happened, what to do about it tomorrow, next week, through the summer sports season, the shoulder months, the holiday push, and across the full year — and coaches your team through every shift in real time. It pulls POS, payroll, purchasing, weather, sports, news, and local events into one connected nervous system, and gets sharper on your specific restaurant every shift.
That's not something any standalone POS report or generic BI tool can do — without a full data team and a lot of plumbing.
What does pricing look like?
Pricing is scaled to your operation and to the parts of the platform you actually need on day one versus day ninety. We ask what we're worth, no more.
See the full revenue-tiered ROI breakdown on the Pricing page, or email [email protected] to start the conversation.
Stop managing yesterday.
Understand the future.
Your data is already there. Let your RLM do the reading, the coaching, and the planning — so you can do the work that only you can do.
Request a live demo30 minutes. No deck. Just your operation, our questions, and a scoped proposal inside a week.