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Onboarding

We onboard your
restaurant. Not your software.

You've done software setups. This isn't one. We install Restaurant OS the way an operator would — understanding your business first, earning trust fast, making sure the work stays off your team's plate.

Different on purpose

Not another
tech project.

Restaurant owners don't need another platform. They need less chaos, faster wins, and confidence that someone knows what they're doing.

What this isn't
  • Here's the platform — connect your tools and log in.
  • Train your whole team for weeks.
  • Another tech project to babysit.
  • A setup checklist with 20 things on it.
  • We hand you a login and leave.
What this actually is
  • One implementation lead. One access round. One clear plan.
  • We diagnose your business before we deploy anything.
  • You see visible wins in the first 30 days.
  • Each role learns only the part they need.
  • The system keeps getting smarter — without making your team do more.
The first 30 days

One month in. Visible
wins on the board.

01
Week 1

Kickoff + alignment.

Goals locked. Stakeholders mapped. Permissions agreed. We leave the kickoff knowing your top three business priorities for the next 90 days.

Output
  • Goal set
  • Role map
  • Access plan
02
Week 2

Access + diagnostic.

One clean round of access collection — not a drip of requests for a month. We connect the core systems, clean the data, and come back with a diagnostic of where your business is actually leaking.

Output
  • Core systems connected
  • Restaurant OS Diagnostic delivered
  • Leak map + first-win hypothesis
03
Week 3

First workflows live.

We deploy three to five highest-leverage workflows — tailored to your biggest leak, not a generic template. Dashboards activate. Alerts route. Training is done by role, not by marathon.

Output
  • First 3–5 workflows deployed
  • Role-based dashboards live
  • Role-based training complete
04
Week 4

Review the wins. Recommend what's next.

Early wins quantified. Workflows tuned. We hand you a performance summary and the recommended next deployment — always in order of ROI, never all at once.

Output
  • First performance summary
  • Tuned workflows
  • Phase 2 deployment plan
The phases

Six phases.
Zero guesswork.

Each phase has a clear goal and a deliverable. You always know where we are and what happens next.

01
Before we start.

Qualification.

Before there's a contract, we already understand your concept, your locations, your tech stack, your bottleneck, and who your real decision-maker is. Onboarding starts with context — not from zero.

02
Align on what matters first.

Kickoff.

Owner, GM, kitchen lead, admin — one 60-minute session where we agree on the top three goals, what success looks like in 30–90 days, and which leak we go after first.

03
Collect once. Not constantly.

Intake.

A single structured round of access collection with a clear reason for every request. POS, reservations, CRM, reviews, aggregators, scheduling. We don't come back asking for another login every Tuesday.

04
Here's what we found.

Diagnostic.

Before we show you a dashboard, we show you the diagnosis. Weak dayparts. Repeat-business leakage. No-show drag. Labor mismatch. Whatever's true about your restaurant, in plain language.

05
3–5 workflows. Not 58.

First deployment.

We don't turn on the whole OS at once. We deploy the handful of workflows that pay for themselves fastest — sized to your specific leak. The rest waits until it's earned.

06
Each role. Only what they need.

Role-based training.

Owners see executive dashboards. GMs see ops. FOH sees guests and reservations. Kitchen sees prep and inventory. Nobody sits through a training they don't need.

One system. Every role.

Everyone works through it.
Not everyone sees the same thing.

The owner keeps control of what each role can see and do. Server sees tasks. Chef sees prep. GM sees operations. You see the whole business. That's how trust gets built.

Owner / Founder
  • Revenue, margin, labor %, food cost %
  • Campaign ROI, executive summaries
  • Full P&L visibility
  • Permission controls
GM / Operator
  • Daily operations dashboard
  • Staffing, reservations, service alerts
  • Selected KPIs — not full financials
  • Task routing and shift health
Front of House
  • Reservations and waitlist
  • Guest notes and VIP memory
  • No-show risk and recovery
  • Service issue alerts
Back of House
  • Prep forecast for the shift
  • Reorder alerts and inventory
  • Waste and quality signals
  • Safety and compliance checks
Marketing / Admin
  • CRM and guest segments
  • Campaign performance
  • Review themes and sentiment
  • Repeat-customer workflows
Staff
  • Today's tasks and checklists
  • Shift handoff notes
  • Only what they need to do the job
  • No sensitive business data
What you actually receive

Four concrete deliverables.
Not a demo. Not a deck.

Restaurant OS Diagnostic

What's leaking, where it's leaking, and what to fix first. Plain English. Specific to your restaurant. Delivered in week two.

30-Day Action Plan

Which workflows deploy first. Who owns what. What wins we expect and when. Signed off by you before anything goes live.

Role-Based Dashboards

Owner, GM, FOH, BOH, admin. Each role gets one clean view of the system built for their job — and nothing they don't need.

Weekly Executive Brief

Every Monday. What changed, what worked, what needs action. The short version a busy owner actually reads.

Non-negotiables

What we won't do.

The short list of things that protect your team from the usual software-company behavior. Hold us to these.

  • We won't deploy every workflow on day one — it creates chaos and hides what's working.
  • We won't train your entire team in one three-hour session. Role-based or not at all.
  • We won't expose sensitive data to roles that shouldn't see it. Permissions are not an afterthought.
  • We won't lead with the tech. Every conversation starts with your business.
  • We won't make onboarding feel like homework. That's our job, not yours.
The promise

Onboard once.
The OS keeps getting better.

You're not signing up for another tool to manage. You're installing an operating system that learns your restaurant and keeps working — without adding more work to your team.

Ready?

Let's walk through your onboarding.

Thirty minutes. Your actual restaurant. We'll map out what phase one would look like — no deck, no generic demo.