Lineup.ai

Lineup.ai, described on its website as part of the TimeForge suite of labor management products, offers AI-driven sales, labor, and menu item forecasting for restaurants. It provides hourly, daily, and weekly sales forecasts, labor planning tied to labor cost targets, automated or template-based shift scheduling, and a real-time analytics dashboard with variance analytics and baseline comparison reports. It integrates with point-of-sale and data management systems, and includes an employee app for submitting availability, requesting time off, and swapping shifts. The site lists a forecast plus scheduling price of $149 per location per month in its ROI calculator, and states the product was 35% more accurate than traditional forecasting methods and within 2% to 3% of actual sales in one customer's testimonial.

Key features

• Hourly, daily, and weekly sales forecasting
• Labor planning and labor cost target tracking
• Automated shift scheduling, template copying, and forecast-based schedule generation
• Menu item forecasting
• Analytics dashboard with sales metrics, variance analytics, baseline comparison reports, and labor target breakdowns
• Integrations with point-of-sale and data management software
• ROI calculator for labor cost percentage
• Employee mobile app for availability, schedule viewing, time-off requests, and shift swaps
• Multi-location consistency and cross-location performance comparison

Best suited for

• Restaurant executives managing profit margins across locations
• Restaurant managers needing data-backed staffing and sales insights
• Franchise and chain restaurants
• Cafes and coffee shops
• Fast casual and quick-service restaurants
• Local and regional restaurants

Pricing

$149 per location per month for Forecast + Scheduling, as shown in the ROI calculator on the website