This multi-year project started with a question: How can we help restaurants run a better business? Through research and design, we identified that there is an incredible amount of uncertainty in this industry, making it hard to run a profitable business. Most general managers have nothing more to go on but their instincts.
We started with sketches to quickly gain an understanding of what information would actually be beneficial. Once we gained confidence we built a simple prototype to begin testing how the software would integrate into a general manager's workflow, which also helped us test the accuracy of our predictive model that would be serving up sales predictions. We continued to iterate the prototype as we gained a deeper understanding of just how a GM thinks and works.
Over the course of 18 months, the team used an iterative and agile process to take this idea from insight to MVP. Designers, developers, data scientists, and general managers working side-by-side to ensure what was being built would actually seamlessly integrate into a GM’s already busy workflow.
2 years later, Lineup is out in the market serving up future revenue predictions by leveraging historical sales, hyper-local weather and events while also providing suggestions on how best to manage expenses and labor schedules. Helping streamline what was once a tedious time-consuming process, into a simply weekly task.
