Unified Operational Intelligence

Restaurant operations intelligence: one view of every location

One operating view of every restaurant

Connect what your systems expected, what physically happened, and the business outcome—in one shared operating model across every item, order, shift, channel, and location.

Ask operations

The Visibility Gap

Your systems know what was ordered. Do you know what actually happened?

Plainsight connects POS and KDS data with what physically happens in every restaurant, so operators can catch execution gaps, understand their financial impact, and improve performance across every location.

POS and KDS system interface
Intent

POS and KDS

What was ordered, planned, or expected.

Item-level verification of prepared order
Execution

Physical execution

What physically happened inside the restaurant.

Business outcomes

Execution to financial impact

Food and remake costs-14%
Labor and throughput+12%
Refunds and recovery-22%
Repeat visits+9%
Brand consistency+18%
Restaurant margins+3.1 pts
Outcome

Business outcomes

What it costs, changes, or improves.

Plainsight connects all three.

Unified Operations View

“Why is Store 52 behind on accuracy?”

Ask the question and the answer is already assembled: accuracy trend across all stores, the locations moving up or down, and the station and daypart driving the gap—so the next action is obvious.

Sliced by item, station, shift, daypart, channel, location, region, and brand.

Unified operations view

Intent + execution, one scorecard

Last 7 days

Ordered

14,284

from POS

Made

13,921

from cameras

Accuracy

97.5%

+0.8% vs last week

Refund rate

2.1%

-0.4% vs last week

Digital mix

38%

off-premise orders

Accuracy Trend - All Stores

7 days

M
T
W
T
F
S
S

Top error items

  • Missing modifier14212%
  • Wrong side item988%
  • Incomplete drink7621%
  • Missing entree item543%
LocationAccuracy7-day change
  • Store 04298.7%+1.2 pts
  • Store 08796.4%−0.4 pts
  • Store 01493.8%−1.9 pts

Order Accuracy exposure calculator

Use your own assumptions. Nothing is submitted, and your results appear immediately.

Potential annual value
$18,720,000

From Data to Business Impact

Small execution gaps become enterprise-level costs.

A single mistake may seem insignificant. Across millions of orders and hundreds of locations, connected data lets leaders identify what broke down, quantify what it costs, and improve it.

Questions leaders can finally answer

Was the order made as entered?

Where did execution break down?

Which workflows create delays?

What is driving refunds and remakes?

Which locations consistently outperform?

What should Operations address first?

Where the impact shows up

Food and remake costs
Labor and throughput
Refunds and customer recovery
Repeat visits
Brand consistency
Restaurant-level margins

How It Works

Turn physical operations into structured business data.

01

Connect system intent

Bring in the orders, modifications, and expectations captured by POS and KDS systems.

02

Observe physical execution

Use computer vision to understand what happens across restaurant workflows.

03

Create a shared operational model

Connect every event to the relevant item, order, station, shift, channel, and location.

04

Surface business impact

Show where execution differs from intent and how that affects operational outcomes.

Prove Repeat Scale

Prove the operating model in a controlled environment.

Begin with one use case, one restaurant, and agreed success criteria. Expand only when customer-supported evidence justifies the next investment.

01

Test Kitchen

Validate Order Accuracy against real orders in a controlled restaurant environment.

02

Repeat

Confirm results across additional locations, layouts and operating conditions.

03

Scale

Deploy the proven operating model across the enterprise.

Applications

One operating model. Multiple operational applications.

Most teams start with Order Accuracy, then extend the same intelligence layer across the restaurant.

Start here

Food Order Accuracy

Plainsight compares what the POS and KDS expected with what was actually prepared and handed off—then connects deviations to refunds, remakes, labor, and customer outcomes.

Explore Order Accuracy

Food Order Accuracy

Compare what was ordered with what was actually made and handed off.

9:41

Order #4281 · Window 3

Assembly Check

Brioche bun✓
Beef patty✓
American cheese!
Lettuce✓
Tomato✓
Pickles✓
Special sauce✓
!

1 missing item: hold order

SOP & Food Safety

Verify documented steps are actually followed on the line.

Drive-Thru Analytics

See where drive-thru performance breaks down, from prep to window.

Assembly 2 is limiting throughput

62 orders per 5 minutes

Overall flow: Stable
  • Prep A92%
  • Grill74%
  • Assembly 2 — Bottleneck41%
  • Window83%

Recommended action: Reassign support to Assembly 2.

Service Speed & Throughput

Measure cycle time, staffing efficiency, and guest wait times.

BOH Inventory Visibility

Catch missing or unready ingredients before they interrupt service.

Fleet benchmark
428 locations

W

92

+3.1

NW

87

+1.4

SE

78

-0.8

S

71

-2.6

Peak-window score distributionBenchmark 84
#LocationRegionScore
  • 1Store 1142W96
  • 2Store 0318NW93
  • 3Store 2207W91
  • 4Store 0874SE76
  • 5Store 1590S68

Multi-Location Benchmarking

Compare execution across stores, regions, and formats on one standard.

Integrations

Built to work with the restaurant systems you already run.

Plainsight connects order intent from restaurant systems with physical execution data, without requiring operators to replace their existing systems of record.

Point of sale
Toast logo
Square logo
Oracle MICROS logo
NCR Voyix logo
PAR Brink logo
Revel logo
Qu logo
Lightspeed logo
SpotOn logo
Clover logo
KDS & kitchen ops
Toast KDS logo
Xenial logo
Deliverect logo
Olo logo
Chowly logo
Prefectos logo

Don't see your system? Plainsight exports events through open APIs and webhooks, so it connects to virtually any POS or KDS.

Start with one operational question.

Choose a high-value workflow, define what success looks like, and prove the impact before scaling.

How Plainsight Works

In restaurants, Plainsight powers restaurant order accuracy, drive-thru analytics, back-of-house inventory visibility, service speed and throughput, SOP and food-safety compliance, and multi-location benchmarking.