When will our guests arrive?
When will our guests arrive?
Why Prognolite?
The head chef would like to know how many meals to produce. The dilemma: Too many purchased and prepared meals result in food waste, too few translate into a loss of revenue and dissatisfied guests.
The restaurant manager would like to know how much staff to schedule. The dilemma: Too many employees generate high labor expenses, too few result in a loss of revenue and dissatisfied guests.
Your benefit
Reduce food waste
Reduced food costs, demand-oriented production based on article forecasts
Optimize staff planning
Deployment of staff at the right time, knowledge retention within the company in case of turnover
Automate processes
No time-consuming comparison of previous performance, reduced office hours
Use data for strategic purposes
Standardized data from different cash register systems through the use of universal API
For whom?
With Prognolite, everybody wins
Restaurant
managers
efficiently schedule their employees based on the forecast and thus reduce waiting times. The app facilitates their budgeting and recommends the ideal shift plan.
COO‘s
help their businesses to achieve higher productivity through innovative technology. With the exact forecasts, they improve financial performance and are ahead of competition.
Head chefs
purchase food according to the projected consumption. Thanks to better planning, they reduce food waste as well as food costs.
Guests
enjoy their dish of choice without long waiting times.
Influencing factors
All required data is automatically exported and prepared from the respective system (e.g., POS).
Turnover & staff forecast
Article forecast & daily overview
The software calculates the forecasts for one month in advance. Short-term forecasts reach an accuracy of up to 95%.
Pricing
Initiation fee:
CHF 274
Initiation fee:
CHF 0
CHF 274
Initiation fee:
CHF 439
Initiation fee:
CHF 0
CHF 439
Initiation fee:
CHF 769
Initiation fee:
CHF 0
CHF 769
Initiation fee:
CHF 1'099
Initiation fee:
CHF 0
CHF 1'099
Initiation fee:
CHF 1'539
Initiation fee:
CHF 0
CHF 1'539
Initiation fee:
€ 249
Initiation fee:
€ 0
€ 249
Initiation fee:
€ 399
Initiation fee:
€ 0
€ 399
Initiation fee:
€ 699
Initiation fee:
€ 0
€ 699
Initiation fee:
€ 999
Initiation fee:
€ 0
€ 999
Initiation fee:
€ 1'399
Initiation fee:
€ 0
€ 1'399
Savings potential
Sample restaurant
Turnover
1 Mio
CHF / year
Staff costs (50.6%)
506’000
CHF / year
Food costs (27.5%)
275’000
CHF / year
Source: Branchenspiegel 2018 by GastroSuisse
Savings potential
Total savings
28’000
CHF / year
Equals 2h per day in staff costs
19’000
CHF / year
50% less overproduction (food waste)
9’000
CHF / year
Calculation:
– 2 hours x 37.00 CHF x 21.75 days x 12 months = 19’314 CHF
– 275’000 CHF x 0.12 x 0.55 x 0.5 = 9’075 CHF
– 12% total food waste; 55% overproduction; 50% avoidable
What others say about us
About us
Simon Michel
Founder & CEO
Founded his first company at the age of 18
Roman Lickel
Founder & CTO
15 years of experience in web and software development
Lukas Stolz
Head of Data Science
Became lecturer at the age of 27
Nico Schefer
Head of Business Development
Became head of gastronomy at the age of 26
Aurelia Stirnimann
PR & Communications
Wrote her Bachelor thesis on food waste mitigation in the Swiss restaurant industry
Maximiliano Luchsinger
Data Science
Applied machine learning techniques to optimize staff planning at the Zurich Airport
Jonathan Gerber
Data Science
Completed his Bachelor assessment year among the top 5% of the university
Valon Fejzullahu
Software Development
Was involved in multiple software development projects for a large bank
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