Understand the numbers. See the operations behind them.

Connect restaurant sales, labor, inventory, purchasing, invoices, payroll, and restaurant accounting software so operators and finance teams can investigate margins, review exceptions, and make better-informed decisions.

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Your P&L tells you what happened.

Your operations help explain why.

Sales, scheduling, inventory, purchasing, invoices, payroll, and restaurant accounting systems often live in separate systems. When those signals are disconnected, it becomes harder to understand what is influencing restaurant margins.

Invoices in Email Bank Feeds Manual Spreadsheets POS Transactions Payroll Runs Inventory Counts
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Delayed financial context. Operators may see the result after the opportunity to investigate has already passed.
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Disconnected reconciliation. Finance teams must compare sales, deposits, and accounting records across separate workflows.
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Hidden food cost drift. Vendor price creep and waste go unnoticed until margins have already eroded.
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Labor variance surprises. Overtime and scheduling misses show up in payroll, not in the moment they happen.
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Duplicate data entry. The same invoice gets keyed into purchasing, accounting, and inventory separately.
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Limited operating context. Financial variances can be difficult to connect back to specific locations or restaurant activity.

Accounting is the outcome.

Restaurant operations tell the story.

Connect the operating activity behind revenue, labor, food cost, invoices, cash movement, and multi-location financial performance.

01 · Capture

Understand restaurant activity

Bring available sales, labor, inventory, purchasing, invoice, and payroll information into context.

Weekend sales increased while labor also moved.
02 · Organize

Review financial classification

Support consistent transaction review, accounting categorization, and location-level visibility.

A vendor expense needs a coding review.
03 · Compare

Connect activity and records

Review available invoices, purchasing information, deposits, and accounting entries together.

A deposit does not match the expected total.
04 · Approve

Keep finance teams in control

Route financial exceptions, invoice questions, and proposed actions for appropriate human review.

An invoice amount differs from the purchase order.
05 · Analyze

Investigate prime cost

Review food cost, labor, purchasing, waste, and other available operating signals together.

Prime cost moved above the restaurant target.
06 · Explain

Understand what may be driving change

Connect financial movement with supplier pricing, schedule decisions, and location-level activity.

Chicken pricing and logged waste both increased.
07 · Consolidate

See the broader operation

Review results across restaurants, districts, regions, entities, or brands where configured.

Three locations show the same cost exception.
08 · Improve

Inform the next business decision

Use current operating context and finance-team review to plan next steps and future periods.

Review labor coverage and upcoming supplier orders.

Every available operating signal.

One clearer financial picture.

Bring available sales, labor, inventory, purchasing, invoice, payroll, and financial information together so teams can review how restaurant activity influences the numbers.

POS Transactions
Inventory & Purchasing
Labor & Scheduling
Payroll Runs
Vendor Invoices
Bank & Card Feeds
Budgets & Forecasts
AI Engine
Optimizing

Why is prime cost increasing at several restaurants?

Available financial and operational information indicates that food cost has increased alongside supplier invoice pricing, recorded ingredient waste, and overtime activity. Review the affected restaurants, supplier documents, inventory variance, and schedules before deciding what action to take.

  • Sales activity
  • Vendor invoices
  • Ingredient waste
  • Labor schedules
  • Location comparison
  • Finance-team review
See the numbers.

Understand the restaurant behind them.

Review available financial performance by reporting period and location, then connect changes in revenue, food cost, labor, and prime cost with relevant restaurant financial software activity.

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Profit & Loss - Downtown Location Group

Real-time updates based on connected data
Daily Weekly Monthly YTD
REVENUE

$1.24M

+3.3% vs target
PRIME COST

59.9%

on target
EBITDA

14.6%

0.8pt vs forecast
Performance Trend
Selected Period Historical
Line Item Budget Actual Var
Revenue $1.20M $1.24M +3.3%
COGS $420K $430K -2.3%
Labor $310K $315K -1.6%
Prime Cost 60.8% 59.9% +0.9%
Opex $180K $175K +2.7%
EBITDA 14.0% 14.6% +0.6%
Don't just report the change.

Understand what may be driving it.

Use connected restaurant and financial information to surface possible explanations for food cost, labor, prime cost, invoice, or location-level changes while keeping finance teams in control with restaurant accounting software.

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See what arrived.

Review what you’re being charged.

Bring available vendor invoice information, purchase orders, receiving records, proposed accounting classifications, and approval workflows together for restaurant accounting review.

01
Capture the invoice

Bring available vendor documentation into the financial workflow.

02
Review invoice details

Examine vendor, items, quantities, amounts, and relevant supporting information.

03
Check accounting context

Review the proposed classification and applicable accounting information.

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Compare purchasing records

Review available purchase-order and receiving information for discrepancies.

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Route for approval

Give managers and finance teams visibility into exceptions and approval needs.

06
Complete the workflow

Process approved invoices according to the configured financial controls.

Example food supplier

Invoice
Illustrative invoice
Chicken breast, 40 lb case $142.80
Romaine lettuce, 24 ct $58.20
Delivery & fuel surcharge $12.00
Sales tax $9.44
Total due $222.44

Verification Checklist

Vendor information
Example food supplier
Purchase order match
PO-10432
Receiving information
Available for review
GL coding
Food Cost - Poultry
Approval status
Manager review

Every exception deserves

context and a next step.

Connect available financial and operational information so teams can understand potential
cost changes, review the underlying signals, and decide on an appropriate action with restaurant accounting solutions.

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Exceptions Inbox
4 Unresolved Signals
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Labor is trending above the operating target

Review: overtime and shift coverage   •   Next step: check affected locations

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Supplier invoice pricing may have changed

Review: recent supplier invoices   •   Next step: compare purchasing records

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Upcoming payment timing may need review

Review: accounts-payable due dates   •   Next step: assess cash planning

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Vendor invoices are awaiting approval

Review: pending invoice exceptions   •   Next step: confirm appropriate approval

From reactive bookkeeping to

proactive financial intelligence.

TRADITIONAL ACCOUNTING

  • ✕ Manual entry from every source system
  • ✕ Financial visibility disconnected from operations
  • ✕ Spreadsheet-based reconciliation
  • ✕ Separate systems for ops and finance
  • ✕ Manual invoice coding
  • ✕ Variances found after the close

ALTAMETRICS AI ACCOUNTING

  • ✓ Connected operational and financial information
  • ✓ Clearer restaurant-level financial visibility
  • ✓ AI-assisted review with finance-team oversight
  • ✓ Operations and finance on one platform
  • ✓ Invoice, purchasing, and approval review
  • ✓ Proactive, AI-surfaced insights

Financial intelligence should assist people

not replace financial oversight.

Keep managers, accounting professionals, and authorized finance teams in control of approvals, exception review, reporting, and consequential financial decisions using restaurant accounting and payroll software.

Manager and finance approval
Review proposed actions, vendor invoices, and financial exceptions before

Outcomes operators

actually care about.

Clearer

Restaurant financial visibility

Smarter

Prime-cost investigation

Earlier

Invoice and labor exception review

Connected

Operations and finance

Operators run on it.

Here's what changed.

The restaurant software is user-friendly and it's something that anyone from an inexperienced to experienced restaurant manager can understand.

Before we used a spreadsheet where we have to type out manually, now with Altametrics we have a better approach to forecasting, scheduling hours, deployment of labor, who's taking a break when, and effective cross-training.

Since we started using Altametrics, we have been able to get our labor deployment and labor forecasting much more accurate than any prior systems that we've used.

The ability to go in and do food management on a weekly basis, do all of our receiving within that system, also for it to forecast orders out is really starting to make the analytics and insight into how we better control our costs just improve ten fold.

The food management products are an integral part of how we operate our business. So it's not just restaurant software, it is part of our culture.

Food safety with Altametrics has become much easier which means we can devote more time to helping our guests and seeing their smiles on their faces.

My Hong Kong team can opt to see all their business intelligence reporting in US dollars and that reporting is done on the fly to make it very valuable for the team in that market.

What Altametrics business intelligence is doing for my operators is telling them where they need to put most of their attention. So to me, that is a tool that doesn't exist anywhere else. Everyone should use it.

As a franchise company, we need to know what all the sales are in our stores so Altametrics Business Intelligence was able to develop a system that could get that information for us.

The ability to go in and do the inventory on a weekly basis and do all of our receiving within that system. Also for it to forecast orders out is really starting to make the analytics and the insight into how we better control our cost just improve tenfold.

Sales forecasting has improved greatly since implementing eRestaurant it is much more consistent. It takes the guesswork basically out of evaluation in forecasting. It populates basically four past weeks and does the math for you and kind of gives you an average to where you can forecast for each day.

We already use Altametrics enterprise so when we heard about zip clock, we had to try it out.

Frequently

Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about the Altametrics platform and our enterprise restaurant management software.

What makes Altametrics more than an automated ordering tool?

Altametrics connects the broader restaurant inventory lifecycle, including AI-assisted counting, sales and recipe information, demand forecasting, purchasing, receiving, waste, invoice review, food-cost variance, and multi-location visibility. Suggested ordering is one part of the overall operating picture.

How does AI-assisted inventory counting help restaurant teams?

AI-assisted counting helps teams capture inventory, organize items by storage location, and identify discrepancies that managers may want to review. Available functionality depends on the products and configuration selected.

How does the platform help investigate food-cost variance?

By connecting available counts, POS sales, recipes, recorded waste, transfers, purchasing information, and invoices, managers can compare actual and theoretical usage and investigate potential explanations for unexpected inventory changes.

How are AI inventory recommendations explained?

Recommendations can be presented in the context of the available operational signals behind them, such as current on-hand inventory, anticipated demand, recipe usage, supplier timing, waste, or an unusual count. Managers remain responsible for reviewing and approving decisions.

Can Altametrics connect with our existing POS, suppliers, and accounting workflows?

Altametrics can support connected workflows across restaurant sales, supplier and purchasing information, invoices, food and beverage accounting software, and operational reporting. Specific integrations, available data, and implementation requirements should be confirmed for each customer environment.

Does the platform support franchise groups and enterprise brands?

Yes. Altametrics supports restaurant operations ranging from individual locations to multi-unit, franchise, and enterprise organizations, with inventory visibility based on the products, locations, and configuration included in each implementation.

Does AI automatically make purchasing or inventory decisions?

AI is intended to support restaurant teams with recommendations and operating context. Managers remain in control of reviewing inventory exceptions, investigating food-cost signals, and approving purchasing or other operational decisions.