How it works
From the data you already have to the margin you’re already losing.
Three steps, then an ongoing layer that keeps working. Every screen below is the real product, running on a realistic sample restaurant.
Ordering platforms and marketing tools grow your sales. ROME finds the margin you’re already losing. They stack — we’re the intelligence layer on the data you already have.
The exports your point-of-sale already produces
Four CSVs your point-of-sale system already produces — sales/orders, order items, menu & costs, labor shifts. No new hardware, no new logins for staff, nothing to install. See the export guides →
Every check, plate, and shift — analyzed
ROME plots every item by velocity and margin, finds the leaks, and shows the math behind each one. This is the real menu-engineering quadrant from the sample restaurant — stars, plowhorses, puzzles, and dogs, split at the medians.
A to-do list ordered by monthly dollar impact
The audit becomes a daily briefing: the handful of things worth your attention, each with the dollars at stake and a concrete first step — ranked so you always know what to do next.
Six lenses on your business
ROME’s analysis engine watches every dimension of your business with each data update — computed from your numbers, not guessed. You don’t read six reports. You get one briefing: what changed, what matters, what to do.
Margin
Item-level profitability: the menu items that sell well but quietly earn nothing, and the sleepers worth promoting.
Labor
Scheduled hours against actual sales patterns, shift by shift, so staffing and demand don't drift apart.
Waste
Where product and money quietly disappear: over-prep on slow days and the slow movers that spoil before they sell — costs that never make it into anyone's report.
Revenue
Sales trends and daypart performance: what's growing, what's slipping, and exactly when.
Retention
Guest behavior and repeat-visit signals, including when regulars start slipping away.
The Briefing
Every lens’s findings, synthesized into one plain-language briefing, ranked by what matters most.
Computed by ROME’s analysis engine — the same answer every time, with the math shown. Ask ROME, your AI advisor, answers questions on top of it.
The ongoing layer
It doesn’t stop at the audit.
The more regularly your data flows in, the sharper ROME gets — a standing feed, not a one-time photo, updated as each day's export lands.
Sales forecasting
A 30-day revenue and covers forecast learned from your own history, with a right-staffing plan — enabled per restaurant once the model is validated against your data — so you schedule to demand instead of guessing.
Ask ROME
A conversational advisor grounded in your numbers — ask a plain-language question, get an answer with the why behind it and the dollars attached.
Who builds ROME
The Platform
Platform & architecture
Designed and built by enterprise data engineers — the analytics engine, the AI advisor, and the security architecture that keeps every restaurant's data its own.
The Data
Data engineering
Pipelines built for rigor: POS exports come in cleanly, so every figure ROME shows traces back to real checks.
The Operator's Eye
Restaurant operations & partnerships
A restaurant industry insider keeps ROME honest to how restaurants actually run — what operators will act on, and which findings are worth their attention.
See it on your own numbers.
The fastest look is the public sample audit — no access needed. When you’re ready, book a walkthrough and we’ll go through a live Profit Leak Audit on data shaped like your own.