Restaurant industry's first AI-native intelligence company, founded by food and beverage veterans who managed more than $20 billion in portfolio value, brings Fortune 500-level intelligence within reach of every operator

COLUMBUS, Ohio: Restaurant operators have spent years making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, siloed data and analytics tools that describe the past but offer little guidance on what to do next. Quantiiv was built by people who lived that problem firsthand. Today, they are solving it.

Quantiiv is introducing the restaurant industry’s first artificial intelligence platform designed to function not as reporting software, but as a virtual executive at the leadership table, one that evaluates performance, challenges assumptions and tells operators exactly what to do next. The platform is already deployed across brands representing more than 650 locations.

In their previous roles, Quantiiv co-founders Patrick Daprile and Dhruv Nathwani managed a food and beverage portfolio exceeding $20 billion and generated more than $1.2 billion in incremental revenue through pricing and portfolio strategy. That institutional knowledge is built directly into the platform’s foundation, producing an AI system that understands restaurant economics rather than simply processing data.

At the center of the platform is ROGER, an artificial intelligence agent that pulls data from point-of-sale systems, financial tools, operational systems, marketing channels and external sources including weather, holidays and macroeconomic indicators, into a single source of truth. ROGER identifies trends, catches problems before they become crises and delivers clear, actionable recommendations in plain language.

Most analytics tools stop there. ROGER does not. He tells operators not just what happened, but why it happened and exactly what to do about it. ROGER does not just present the numbers, he interprets them. When data can be read in more than one way, ROGER has a point of view. He will tell operators what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. The founders built their own judgment and taste directly into how he thinks.

“Until now, the industry has never had a C-suite-level intelligence that does not sleep, does not take time off and never misses a number. ROGER is the ultimate complement to your CFO,” said Daprile. “He is always monitoring, always learning and always grounded in the full context of the business.”

“The importance of interpretation is not to be understated,” added Nathwani. “Most AI tools produce quick, confident answers that lack the nuance operators need to act on them. ROGER evaluates a restaurant’s full data set and pressure-tests its own reasoning before putting anything in front of an operator. We built it to be right, not just fast.”

Early adopters begin with straightforward questions about sales, promotions and customer behavior across locations and quickly find themselves asking harder ones. Those questions used to require a team of analysts, an expensive consultant or both. Now they just require ROGER.

Duck Donuts is an early example of what that looks like in practice. The chain operates more than 150 locations across multiple point-of-sale systems and turned to Quantiiv to unify its data foundation and transform how it supports franchisees. What followed was a complete overhaul of its menu engineering process, greater visibility into unit economics and a small team empowered to make decisions with the kind of confidence that used to require a much larger one.

“ROGER and the Quantiiv team have changed how we look at our business,” said Devon Mailey, CEO of Duck Donuts. “What used to take days now happens in a conversation. I email a question and get back not just an answer, but insights I would not have thought to ask for.”

For Mailey and operators like her, getting started requires nothing more than an email. There is no new software to install and no dedicated resource required to manage it. Leaders reach ROGER the same way they would reach any member of the team.

As demand for intelligent, restaurant-specific analytics grows, Quantiiv is deepening its work with multi-location brands across the country. The company plans to bring the same platform to additional franchise-driven industries later this year. Restaurant operators and industry leaders interested in learning more can reach the team directly at info@quantiiv.com or visit quantiiv.com.

About Quantiiv

Quantiiv created the industry’s first artificial intelligence platform built specifically for restaurant operators. The platform pulls fragmented data from point-of-sale systems, financial tools and marketing analytics into a single source of truth, delivering real-time recommendations in plain language that tell operators what is happening, why it is happening and what to do about it.

Founded by industry veterans with deep pricing and portfolio management experience, Quantiiv combines AI built on restaurant-specific expertise with advanced data unification to help brands optimize pricing, menu strategy and operational performance, delivering Fortune 500-level intelligence without the cost, complexity or headcount. The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Fonte: Business Wire