How Alfredo works

It hands you the recommendation, then grades it.

Dashboards show you charts and leave the thinking to you. Alfredo reads your POS, hands you a short ranked list of recommendations worth trying, and when you try one, it measures what actually happened and gets smarter about your business. Suggest, try, verdict, repeat.

No new hardware, nothing to install, no staff retraining. Alfredo connects to the Toast or Clover POS you already run.

What "measured" actually looks like

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Marked done · Pricing

Raise House Lager from $6.50 to $7.00

Projected +$11.40/wk if it holds. Here is what the weeks actually said:

W1
W2
W3
W4

green: on target · red: below · gray: not enough data that week

Measured: +$9.80/wk attributable Compared against a control item, with what you would have made anyway subtracted out. Measured under projection, and the board says so.

Every change ends in a verdict

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While a test is running, no interim results are shown. Checking results mid test inflates false positives, so Alfredo does not allow it.
Menu trial · completed

Reprice Garlic Fries from $5.50 to $6.50

Worked No effect Backfired

Units fell 22% and net revenue came out $41/wk below baseline. The dollar jump was too big for this item.

Rolled back to $5.50. The engine logged the miss, and next week's pricing suggestions learned from it. A tool that cannot say backfired cannot be trusted when it says worked.

Small, careful, and the same menu for everyone.

A trial in Alfredo is one item, one change, for a set number of weeks. Every guest sees the same menu; results are compared against your own history and a control item, never against your customers. If a change backfires, it rolls back in minutes, and the board says so. This is how you were already improving your menu, just measured honestly.

What lands on your board

Four kinds of recommendations, one ranked list.

Pricing

Which items can carry a price move, which cannot, and a built in way to prove it on one item before you commit the whole menu.

Promotions

Bundles and pairings pulled from your real baskets, with the co order evidence attached. Not your best seller. The pairing you would not have guessed.

Positioning

Where each item sits on your menu and in your market: highlight the hidden gems, dim the underperformers, watch the gaps your competitors leave open.

Operations

Table time, dayparts, happy hour economics, item availability. Where the floor and the data disagree, you find out early.

Cost intelligence

You know what you sold. Do you know what you made?

For businesses that share their recipe and ingredient costs, Alfredo adds a second layer: it connects what each dish costs to make with what it sells for, turning sales analytics into margin intelligence.

Where each dish's money goes

Click any item and see its cost ingredient by ingredient: which single ingredient dominates, what packaging adds, and when each cost was last confirmed. Every cost carries its date, so you always know how fresh the number is.

The worry list, before the worry

Alfredo ranks the ingredients that drive your menu wide costs, shows what a 10 percent price rise in each would cost you per month, and tracks how volatile each has been over the past year.

Where costs rose but prices did not

The repricing queue finds items whose ingredient costs climbed while menu prices stood still, quantifies the weekly margin bleed, and feeds the worst cases into the weekly board. It shows the mirror too: where costs fell and margins quietly improved.

It audits the data itself

Items selling below cost, suspicious entries, stale costs, sudden spikes. On day one with a real client's cost data, Alfredo flagged a 1,370 times data entry error. It asked the operator instead of silently fixing it. Every finding is a question you confirm or dismiss.

With cost data connected, every recommendation on the board argues from real margins: a price change shows cost, price, and margin so you can see it is safe; a promotion states what the giveaway costs and the exact volume needed to break even; a cross sell states the margin each attachment adds. The same add on data doubles as menu development evidence: which extras your guests already vote for with their orders, and what each one earns, for when you are deciding what to build next. Alfredo recommends and measures. You decide.

Ask Alfredo

Got a question? Just ask.

A chat panel lives inside every tab. Ask how the week is going, why a number moved, or what to try next, and Alfredo answers in plain language from your own data. Every chart and every recommendation has an ask button right next to it.

And when your data cannot answer something, Alfredo says so instead of guessing. Same rule everywhere.

Ask it cost questions too, like how profitable an item really is. It answers from your own data and shows the queries it ran to get there. If it cannot verify a number, it says so instead of estimating.

Alfredo sample conversation · sample data
Morning. Ask me anything about the business, or tap one of these to see how I answer.
Ask about your business|
Customer intelligence

Your regulars, found in your own data.

Alfredo works out who your confirmed guests and regulars are from the data you already have: your loyalty program if you run one, and the transaction data itself if you do not. Either way, no new app to launch and no sign up sheet at the host stand. See who keeps the lights on, how regulars differ from occasional visitors, and which patterns deserve a nudge.

And in keeping with the numbers rule: only confirmed guests are counted. Alfredo never inflates the panel with estimated crowd sizes.

Regulars vs occasional guests

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412confirmed guests
78regulars (5+ visit days)
31%repeat rate
Average visits
8.4
1.6
Average check
$42
$31
Share of tracked revenue
34%
22%
Regulars Occasional
A small group of regulars usually carries an outsized share of revenue. Alfredo shows you exactly who and how, from the data you already have.

Your guests, sorted into segments you can name

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Alfredo groups your confirmed guests by how they actually behave: when they come, what they order, how they spend. You rename the segments in your own words, because you know your room better than any algorithm.

The Friday night crowd
124 guests$47 avg check3.1 visits

Weekend evenings, bigger tables, beverage forward orders.

Lunch break locals
96 guests$22 avg check5.8 visits

Weekday middays, fast turns, high repeat frequency.

Slow sippers
58 guests$29 avg check6.4 visits

Long dwell, beverage only checks. Your best nudge candidates.

Big table hosts
34 guests$118 avg check2.2 visits

Group organizers. Fewer visits, the largest checks in the house.

Segments are built from behavior, and the names are yours to edit. One click on any segment asks Alfredo what to do about it.
Competitive intel

Know your block like you own it.

Alfredo tracks every venue around you: their ratings, their hours, their prices, and what their customers keep saying in reviews. Then it puts the pattern on your weekly board. Walking past a competitor? Photograph their menu, upload it, and see it matched item by item against your own sales.

36
venues tracked in your area
8 of 36
open past midnight: your late night edge
+1.1
your service score vs market average
1 click
from any competitor row to a full menu scan

Sentiment radar: you vs your market

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Food 4.8 Service 4.9 Value 4.2 Speed 4.5 Ambiance n=3 · not enough mentions You Market avg
Scores are read out of your market's actual reviews. Dimensions without enough mentions stay faded until the data earns them. Even here, no number without evidence.

When your market is busy, hour by hour

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MonTueWedThuFriSatSun 3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p Quiet Busy
Built from public busy times data across your whole market, then compared against your own volume. The gap between the two is where your money is hiding.

Menu Scanner: their photo, matched to your numbers

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Upload a photo of a competitor menu. Alfredo reads it, matches items against your own, and shows its confidence on every pairing. You confirm or dismiss each one before anything else happens.

Their itemYour itemMatchGap
Smash Burger · $13.50 House Burger · $11.00 92% You are $2.50 under
Loaded Tots · $9.00 Tater Tots · $8.00 87% You are $1.00 under ✓ confirmed
Chicken Sando · $12.00 Crispy Chicken · $12.50 64% Needs your review 👍 👎
"Try this price" only appears on matches you have confirmed, and only when the competitor price came from a published menu, never an estimate.

Also inside the Competitive tab:

AI written SWOT from your market's reviews Interactive competitor map Census demographics per trade area Nightlife spillover score Extended hours revenue scenarios Price tier positioning One click competitor menu scan

See it on your own data