ClearCOGS Restaurant Forecasting

ClearCOGS is a Chicago-based restaurant forecasting software company. It targets restaurant brands that over-prep, over-order and mis-schedule labour because they plan from experience rather than data.

The software reads POS history, weather, events and menu mix, then sends each store a daily prep sheet, an order guide and a labour plan before the kitchen opens. Modules cover food prep, labour and menu item forecasting, with multi-store reports and integrations with POS and restaurant systems such as Toast, Square, Oracle Simphony and Restaurant365. The company states it serves 300+ restaurant brands.

• Food prep forecasting: Daily prep sheets by item and daypart with a stop line.
• Order guides: Case counts by delivery day and weekly pars.
• Labour forecasting: Schedules based on forecast demand.
• Menu item forecasting: Item-level demand predictions.
• Multi-store reports: Sales, waste and labour against forecast with flagged locations.
• POS integrations: Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Oracle Simphony, Restaurant365 and others.

A Vietnamese fast-food or bakery chain could forecast daily prep quantities per outlet to cut waste. A coffee chain could align staff schedules with predicted demand. A central kitchen could plan weekly orders from store-level forecasts.

Daily prep sheets with a stop line limit over-prep and food waste. Order guides give case counts by delivery day and weekly pars. Labour schedules follow forecast demand. Multi-store reports flag locations that deviate from forecast on sales, waste and labour, and alerts warn of stockouts.

Restaurant operators face thin margins, labour cost pressure and food waste, and are adopting AI forecasting tied to POS data. Vietnam's multi-outlet restaurant and bakery chains generate POS data that can support demand-based prep and staffing.

Chicago-based (dateline of its April 2025 press release). Raised a 3.8 million USD oversubscribed seed round in April 2025 led by Closed Loop Partners' Venture Group with Myriad Venture Partners and Level Up Ventures. Partnership with Fresh KDS announced.