One engineer, not another app
A named engineer connects your POS, reservations, payroll, and books, watches them daily, and writes your Monday brief. You never log into five tabs to figure out how the week went.
Atlas for Restaurants · Managed under a written SLA
Know what tonight will cost you before service starts.
Atlas connects your POS, reservations, payroll, and books, watches them daily, and puts one brief in front of you every Monday: what changed, what it cost, and the one thing to do about it. One flat monthly price. One engineer who knows your restaurant. No new POS. No spreadsheets.
Or just call (513) 401-5233 · founding rates for the first five restaurants
Monday brief · Week of Aug 17
Up 4.2% on the week; labor needs one schedule fix.
- Net sales
- $41,286
- +4.2% vs last week
- Labor
- 29.1%
- vs 30% target
- Tonight
- 96 covers
- 2 high-risk holds
Do one thing
Friday close ran 3 servers against 41 covers. Trim one closer this week and labor lands back under target.
fig. 01: the Monday brief every operator gets, from an example week. Numbers illustrative.
What this is
Your numbers already know what to fix. Nobody reads them.
The signals live in silos: sales in the POS, labor in payroll, tonight's book in the reservation system, margins in the books. Atlas reads them together every day and tells you the one thing worth doing, before it costs you.
Your menu, finally legible
Every item ranked by how often it sells and the margin it carries: stars, plowhorses, puzzles, and dogs. What to promote, what to reprice, what to cut, from your actual sales.
Tonight, handled before it happens
Reservation pacing and no-show risk surfaced before service. At the Automated level, high-risk parties get confirmed for you while there is still time to fill the table.
Pricing
Two levels. One flat price.
Every level includes the workspace, the Monday brief, and a named engineer. Founding rates are locked for the life of the engagement and limited to the first 5 restaurants per level. 12-month term, never an hourly invoice.
Connected
$1,495/mo
$1,195/mo founding rate
$2,500 onboarding
Your POS, reservations, payroll, and books each work, but nobody reads them together. We connect them, watch them, and put one brief in front of you every Monday: what changed, what it cost, and the one thing to do about it.
We run up to 4 of your systems · $200/mo each additional
1 location included · $495/mo each additional
- Monday morning brief: sales, labor, and tonight’s book in plain English
- Menu engineering: your stars, plowhorses, puzzles, and dogs, from real sales
- Labor cost vs. target, nightly, next to the sales it produced
- Reservation pacing and no-show risk from your reservation system
- P&L vs. budget when your books are connected
- A named engineer, reachable by email
Automated
Most Popular$2,495/mo
$1,995/mo founding rate
$5,000 onboarding
Everything in Connected, plus the follow-through: no-show risk worked before service, review responses drafted, and a monthly report of what the assistant actually did for you.
We run up to 6 of your systems · $250/mo each additional
1 location included · $745/mo each additional
- Everything in Connected
- No-show recovery: high-risk reservations confirmed before they cost you
- Review responses drafted for you from your Google Business Profile
- A monthly report of what the assistant did and what it produced
- Same-business-day response from your engineer, by email or phone
The workspace
One login. Every number that matters.
Behind the Monday brief sits a live workspace. Each view carries an honest as-of timestamp, and anything not connected yet says so instead of showing a fake number.
Sales
Net sales trend, average check, channel and payment mix, week over week.
Menu
The engineering quadrant plus per-item popularity, margin, and a ranked to-do list.
Labor
Labor cost against target, nightly, next to the sales each shift produced.
Reservations & books
Cover pacing, no-show risk, and P&L vs. budget when your books are connected.
What's covered
What counts as “one of your systems”
Anything we log into, keep working, and watch for you. No API? No problem: if your POS or reservation system only exports CSVs, you send the export and we handle the rest. Switching systems is never a prerequisite.
Counts as one system
- KwickPOS, Square, or Toast
- TableAgent or another reservation platform
- Xero or QuickBooks
- Gusto or another payroll provider
- Google Business Profile
- A phone or SMS line under Atlas management
Does not count
- Your own website, because website care already covers it
- The workspace and morning brief; they come with every level
- Anything we look at once during setup and never watch again
Need a website too? Builds are scoped as onboarding projects with written pricing and never get quietly absorbed into your monthly plan.
FAQ
Common questions
Do I have to switch my POS?
No. We work with what you run today. If your POS has an API, we connect it. If it only does CSV exports, like KwickPOS or TableAgent, you send us the export and we handle the rest; your numbers still land in your workspace. Switching systems is never a prerequisite.
What actually shows up every week?
A Monday brief written by your engineer, not a dashboard dump: how the week finished, what labor ran, what the menu data says, and the one thing worth doing next. Behind it sits a live workspace with sales, menu engineering, labor, reservations, and books views you can open any time.
What is menu engineering?
Every item on your menu, ranked by how often it sells and how much margin it carries, then sorted into four buckets: stars, plowhorses, puzzles, and dogs. It tells you what to promote, what to reprice, what to fix, and what to cut. Most operators have never seen their menu this way.
What happens if you miss a promise?
Response times and delivery dates are written into your agreement and tracked in your workspace. If we miss one, you get 10% of that month’s fee off your next bill, applied automatically, up to 30% in a single month. You never have to ask.
Is my sales data safe?
Your data lives in your own isolated workspace. Credentials are stored sealed, never shared across clients, and access can be withdrawn any time. We do not sell or share your numbers, and nothing about your restaurant is used to benchmark competitors.
What are the terms?
12 months to start, then month-to-month. You pay monthly in advance; the first month plus the onboarding fee are due when you sign. Founding rates are locked for the life of the engagement and limited to the first five restaurants per level.
Next step
See your own menu in the quadrant.
One short call. Bring a sales export if you want; we'll show you the workspace, tell you which level fits, and put every promise in writing before you sign anything.
Prefer to talk? (513) 401-5233