EXPO is the AI operating system that brings Agile & SAFe discipline to restaurant operations — built by a 20-year software engineer and a 20-year restaurant operator who finally put the back office and the back-of-house on the same system.
Multi-unit restaurant groups are squeezed from every direction — labor, food cost, turnover, and a back office still run on spreadsheets and email. The technology exists to fix it. Adoption is the missing piece.
82% of restaurant executives plan to increase AI investment this year, yet Deloitte finds real adoption still on the back burner. Capital is ready; a trusted on-ramp is not.
POS, scheduling, inventory, AP, payroll — a dozen point solutions, none orchestrated. Managers reconcile by hand at midnight instead of running the floor.
The best software teams ship on a rhythm of sprints, standups, and retros. Restaurants have the raw materials for the same discipline — but no system to run it.
Most restaurant tech is built by engineers who've never run a Friday rush, or by operators who can't ship software. EXPO is the rare overlap — and that overlap is the entire moat.
The operator makes sure we build the right thing. The engineer makes sure we build the thing right. Neither half can be hired away or copied by a generic SaaS vendor — and it's exactly what an operator like Doherty needs to adopt AI with confidence.
The disciplines that made software teams 10× more productive map almost perfectly onto restaurant operations. EXPO encodes that translation into the platform — so the cadence runs itself.
EXPO sits on top of your existing POS, payroll, and accounting — orchestrating the tools you already own and deploying AI agents on the highest-volume, most repetitive work first.
Invoice capture & auto-coding, three-way match, payroll prep, and reporting — the midnight reconciliation work, done automatically.
Demand-forecasted schedules that hit your labor target while protecting service — plus overtime and compliance guardrails.
Predictive ordering, theoretical-vs-actual variance, and waste alerts before the product hits the bin.
Pre-shift huddles, the improvement backlog, and retros — the operating cadence, built into the daily flow.
One portfolio view across concepts and regions — drill from the whole group to a single station in two clicks.
Surface at-risk team members early and give managers a concrete playbook — because turnover is the most expensive line nobody tracks.
We don't sell a rip-and-replace. We land on one painful, high-ROI workflow, prove it in pilot locations, then expand across the portfolio.
The #1 blocker to AI isn't budget — it's knowing where to start. Our consulting packages de-risk the journey and build the operating mindset before a single license is deployed.
An operations + technology audit across a representative slice of your units. We map every AI & automation opportunity and rank it by ROI.
We design your "SAFe-for-Restaurants" operating model — cadence, roles, tooling, and a phased rollout plan with a change-management playbook.
We implement 2–3 AI use cases in pilot locations, train your teams, and stand up the operating cadence — then monitor and tune.
Three simple per-location tiers that sit comfortably alongside the POS and scheduling tools you already pay for — and replace the manual hours that cost far more.
An illustrative model on ~$540M in revenue across 160+ units. The platform's job is to move the margin line — and at this scale, small moves are large numbers.
Pick 3–5 Doherty locations. We run the Readiness Sprint, stand up the platform on your highest-ROI workflow, and put hard numbers on the table — before any portfolio-wide commitment.
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