Mike Gutowski, founder of foodml — on the line at Shopify NYC
chef & founder
RECIPE №01 · the homepage
How to run a restaurant
without losing your mind.
SERVES: 1,247 kitchens
YIELDS: −38% waste
TIME: 20-min setup
DIFFICULTY: ★★☆☆☆
ingredients —
  • 1POS feed (any vendor)
  • 1inventory app, or a clipboard
  • ~14data sources (we wire them)
  • 4.2Mhistorical tickets, pre-trained
  • 1sous chef who can read a phone
  • 0consultants, swaps, IT projects
  • ∞patience for vendor shenanigans
  • 1 pinchcuriosity
bring lunch, we’ll bring the demo.
method —
  1. 1.Plug in your POS. OAuth, no IT call. Two clicks. We talk Toast, Square, Resy, OpenTable, Lightspeed, Aloha — and ten more.
  2. 2.Let the model taste. It chews 90 days of your tickets. Your kitchen, your weights. On-device, never sold.
  3. 3.Receive your prep sheet. Every morning at 6am. Per-station, per-dish, per-cover. Your sous opens to it.
  4. 4.Catch 86s before they catch you. Three-hour warning, average. Push when it matters, silence when it doesn’t.
  5. 5.Adjust, taste, repeat. Every shift retrains. Every Sunday a one-page report. Every quarter, coffee.
// cover-forecast accuracy · 64% → 94% · n=412
prep accuracy · today
94%
covers ±5%
waste vs baseline
−38%
avg 90d · n=1,247
86 events · 24h
↓4
−71% vs no-foodml
$ saved · this hour
$1,842
extrapolated · n=1,247

The wall.

· example kitchens · simulated data

The pipeline.

// ingest → forecast → act
01
INGEST
POS, inventory, weather, events, reservations — ~14 sources.
· ~14 sources
02
FORECAST
Per-dish covers, prep yields, 86 risk, labor curves.
· 5-min cadence
03
ACT
Prep sheets, par updates, push alerts to the line.
· iOS + KDS
04
LEARN
Every shift retrains the model. Your kitchen, your weights.
· on-device

Honest pricing.

// no contracts · cancel anytime
Stage
$0
one kitchen · 30 days
  • Core forecasts
  • Daily prep sheets
  • Email support
· most kitchens
Line
$420/mo
per kitchen
  • Everything in Stage
  • 86 alerts · iOS app
  • POS connectors
  • Sunday report
Brigade
talk to us
5+ kitchens
  • Everything in Line
  • Group dashboards
  • Custom integrations
  • On-call sous chef (us)

Live from the line.

· example events · ET
• foodml/service-board · live --:--:--
WASTE LEADERBOARD · 7d
CLAIM YOUR SPOT
Most kitchens hit top-quartile waste cuts inside 90 days.
Cut food cost six points in 90 days. The prep sheet is gospel now.
— M. ALVAREZ · exec chef · le coq
My sous knows what we’ll 86 before I do. Spooky and great.
— J. WONG · co-owner · maison wong
Replaced three spreadsheets, two whiteboards, and one shouting match.
— R. PARK · gm · the standard
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