Matt WamplerCEO & Co-Founder, ClearCOGS · CEO & Co-Founder, ClearCOGS 🔪

ClearCOGS -- Revolutionizing the way restaurants forecast.

13 Aug 2025 · 3 min

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The video presents ClearCogs, an AI‑powered forecasting platform designed for restaurants facing rising food costs, supply‑chain disruptions, and labor shortages. It argues that existing restaurant tech forces managers to become data analysts instead of focusing on guest experience. ClearCogs sits atop a restaurant’s current tech stack, pulling in sales trends and external variables such as weather, sporting events, school calendars, gas prices, and holidays. Using AI, it generates precise, actionable forecasts for food preparation, labor scheduling, and ordering, delivered directly to staff devices with no additional setup. The narrator claims that typical users see over 50% waste reduction, fewer stockouts, lower food and labor costs, and a 2‑3% increase in profit margins. Two testimonial speakers confirm the forecasts’ accuracy, noting that the tool prevents waste (e.g., three racks of ribs) and gives managers a clear, data‑driven roadmap for daily decisions. The overall message is a persuasive call to adopt ClearCogs to simplify operations, cut costs, and improve profitability.

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The modern restaurant industry operates in a whirlwind of challenges. Rising food costs, supply chain disruptions, and labor shortages strain already thin profit margins. Inefficiencies pile up and eat into profits. For operators, these hurdles mean one thing: spending too much time on logistics and not enough on delivering great customer experiences. Your managers didn't get into restaurants to become food cost analysts. But existing tech systems force them to sift through complex data for nuggets of valuable information instead of focusing on running a smooth operation. Clearcogs is an AI-powered forecasting tool that sits on top of your existing tech stack, connecting independent data feeds to make a smart kitchen, providing your team with the prescriptive instructions they need to get the critical details right each day for food prep, labor, and ordering. Operators using this tool can reduce costs, prevent waste, and streamline operations so you can focus on what matters most— your customers. Here's how it works. We take your existing data, like sales trends, and combine it with factors like weather, sporting events, school calendar, price of gas, holidays, and more. Then we use AI to deliver precise, actionable forecasts directly to your team. inbox or device. No extra setup, no hassle. ClearCogs customers see results that are hard to ignore.
I've been testing ClearCogs with what I would normally do, and I would do those numbers and they'd be dead on, and I was like, I would have wasted like 3 racks of ribs today.
ClearCogs for us has been a way that a manager can come in, have the numbers and the data right in front of them, communicate and execute. ClearCogs has also given us a very definitive system.
Each store makes decisions throughout the day the exact same It gives my team the roadmap for what they need to do that day.
The average ClearCogs customer sees over 50% reduction in waste, fewer stockouts to maximize revenue, lower food and labor costs, all leading to a 2 to 3% boost straight to your profit margins. ClearCogs makes running your operation easier, smarter, and more profitable. Ready to simplify your day and boost your bottom line? Let ClearCogs take care of the details.