ClearCOGS helps QSRs and convenience stores cut food waste by automatically analyzing POS data with weather, time, and holidays factored in. Jimmy John's locations using it cut bread waste by 50% and saved over $1,500 on food costs in their first month.
Managing fresh food in convenience stores comes with its unique set of challenges. Overordering, predicting sales, and managing inventory can feel like a guessing game, taking away from what the customers are receiving. Operators get started hoping to see revenue from fresh food products, only to find out that the margins are unpredictable. Systems like Brink might house useful data, but accessing, cleaning, and making sense of that data is more trouble than it's worth. It won't prevent dumpsters' worth of stale or unsold product from being thrown out. ClearCogs is a straightforward solution to this daily convenience store challenge. With no extra setup, we take advantage of the data that already exists in any POS system and combine it with data about the time of year, day of the week, weather, and national holidays to answer operational questions with a high degree of precision. Questions like: How many chicken tenders do I need to fry at 2 PM on Wednesday? What you receive is easy-to-understand daily reports that can be broken down into relevant categories by the hour and easily pulled up on any device. The ClearCogs system is extremely accurate. Locations that use it see major decreases in waste. In fact, after using ClearCogs for just a month, a group of Jimmy John's locations were able to decrease the amount of bread they were wasting by 50%. And with down-to-the-hour reporting, Clearcogs also ensures that product is always hot and fresh. The average Clearcogs user sees over $1,500 in food cost savings in the first month. The result? An increase in margins and a stronger pulse on where inefficiencies lie, so the consumer can experience freshness and quality like never before.
