What does menu intelligence actually measure?

Sales mix by item, category, daypart, and day-of-week. Margin per item with food cost mapped to current pricing. Daypart performance with item-level breakdown. Modifier attach rates and upsell patterns. Hero items, sleepers, and dogs flagged with the data behind the call. Year-over-year and multi-year seasonal comparison from your full history.

How much historical data does the analysis use?

All of it. The 86ops RLM ingests your full historical sales mix from day one — every cover, every check, every line item — never a 13-week rolling window. Restaurants on the platform for three years get three years of seasonal pattern recognition feeding every recommendation.

How does the Food Program connect to Marketing?

Items the RLM thinks need a marketing push surface in next week's Channel Playbook automatically. Top-margin under-volume items get flagged. Seasonal performers get surfaced three weeks ahead of their historical window. New menu items get an A/B-able rollout plan in the Content Calendar. Your menu and your marketing speak to each other without you running the meeting.

Does it work with my existing menu PDFs?

Yes. Upload your menu PDFs and computer vision extracts every item, modifier, and price. The brand voice gets learned from how the menu is written. From there the items live in the Food Program for analysis and in the Marketing Plan for content generation — same item, two places, one source.

04 · Food Program

Your menu, answered.

Every cover, every check, every line item — for every shift you've ever run — read by your RLM. Sales mix, margin, daypart performance, modifier attach rates, seasonal patterns. The items pulling weight, the items pretending to. The items that should be making money but aren't. The menu meeting, done before you sit down.

And every cover sharpens the read.

Menu Intelligence

Sales mix. Margin. Daypart.

The full picture of what your menu actually does. Sales mix by item, by category, by daypart. Margin per item with food cost laid against your current pricing automatically. Daypart performance: what sells at lunch versus dinner versus late-night, by guest segment. Compare any item against any other, any week against any other. Your menu isn't a twelve-month-old PDF anymore — it's a measured asset.

Sales mix by item, category, daypart, day-of-week, guest segment
Margin per item — food cost mapped to current pricing automatically
Daypart performance with item-level breakdown — lunch, dinner, late-night, brunch
Hero items, sleepers, and dogs flagged with the data behind the call
Side-by-side period comparison — this March vs last March vs the year before
Every check that closes feeds the model. Your menu's character gets sharper every week.

Item-level detection

Modifiers. Attach rates. Upsell patterns.

Below the dish level: which modifiers are driving the margin and which are eating it. Which appetizers actually attach to which entrees. Which servers upsell better than the team average on each item. The granular signal that explains why some items punch above their weight and some don't.

Modifier-level revenue attribution — every add-on's contribution to the check
Attach rates between courses, items, and modifiers — what comes with what
Per-server upsell performance per item — who pushes the special, who doesn't
Comp and void analysis at the item level — quietly bleeding margin, surfaced
Slow-mover and dog detection with margin context, not just volume
Every modifier added or skipped feeds the attach-rate model. Tomorrow's specials writeup is sharper.

Seasonal recognition

Every season, remembered.

Your full historical sales mix — every cover, every check, every line item, for every shift you've ever run — is in the model. Your RLM sees this December against last December and the December before. The item that always pops in shoulder season, the dish that always tanks in July, the wine that's been quietly building for three years. Patterns no human team would catch sitting at a screen.

Full historical sales mix from day one — never a 13-week window
Year-over-year and multi-year comparisons by item, category, daypart
Seasonal pattern flagging — items that consistently rise or fall on the calendar
Holiday and event-day performance baselines per item
Weather-correlated demand modeling per item — what rain does to the soup, what heat does to the salad
Every season the model has watched makes its next prediction sharper. December year three is read in context of December year one and two.

Marketing tie-in

Items that need a push, already in next week's plan.

Your Food Program doesn't just analyze — it acts. Items the RLM thinks need a marketing push automatically surface in next week's Channel Playbook. Items that are over-margin and under-volume. Items that performed last September and could perform again. Items that match the seasonal weather forecast. Your menu and your marketing, talking to each other. Without you in the meeting.

Top-margin / under-volume items automatically flagged for marketing push
Hero items at risk of mix-cannibalization called out before they slip
Seasonal performers surfaced in next month's plan three weeks ahead of their window
New menu items get an A/B-able rollout plan in the Content Calendar
86 the items that aren't earning their menu real estate — we're 86ops, after all
Every push that worked feeds the next push. The tie-in tunes itself.

The other four fronts

Food Program is one front. The model runs five.

Food Program reads the menu and feeds the marketing plan. Live runs the floor in real time. The Office writes the back-office reckoning. Marketing turns it all into outbound. Beverage Program closes the loop on the bar. All five share the same RLM, all five learn from each other, every shift.

01 · Live

Live

Real-time pace, AI commentary, leaderboard, intra-day coaching, Latest Estimate. The intel inside the shift.

02 · The Office

The Office

Pre-shift briefings, financial reporting against budget, prime cost, server scoring, OCR + COS workbook.

03 · Marketing

Marketing

Six AI-built sections every week, post-by-post Channel Playbook, brand voice, continuous competitive intelligence.

05 · Beverage Program

Beverage Program

Three specialist agents — Brewmaster, Sommelier, Mixologist — running your programs every Sunday morning.

See your menu,
answered.

A walkthrough of menu intelligence, daypart performance, modifier attach rates, and the marketing tie-in — running on a real restaurant. We'll show you what your menu has been telling you all along.

Request a live demo

30 minutes. No deck. Just your operation, our questions, and a scoped proposal inside a week.