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Owner — the business seen from your home page

You own the place. Maybe one location, maybe a group of them. Either way, the system knows you read your business by the numbers — revenue, gross margin, supplier reliability, cash position — not by who’s in the kitchen at 11 AM. When you sign in, your home page is built around the questions the owner asks, the assistant in your pocket frames its answers in your vocabulary, and the alerts you get are the ones a chef wouldn’t care about and you can’t afford to miss.

What it does

The home page on your first screen pulls together the four numbers you check before any meeting: today’s revenue, today’s COGS percentage, cash in the till vs banked yesterday, and the biggest variances against last week. If you run a group, every number is the rolled-up total across every member venue, with a one-tap drill into the per-venue breakdown.

The assistant on the home page talks to you in P&L terms. “How did we do last week?” gets a reply about revenue, food-cost percentage, top three sellers by gross margin, and any supplier on-time hits. The same question asked by your head chef would get prep coverage and substitutions. The system frames every AI answer in the voice of the role asking — that’s intentional. You don’t need to wade through what your chef sees; the chef doesn’t need to wade through what you see.

The alerts that ping your phone are the ones that move money or expose risk: VAT-invoice deadline warning (something needs to be sent to your accountant within 72 hours), cash-reconciliation gap (last night’s till differs from the deposited cash by more than the venue’s tolerance), supplier price hike (a key ingredient jumped more than the venue’s threshold), and monthly-target drift (you’re trending below where last month landed by this date). You don’t get the prep-behind ping — that’s the chef’s; you do get a ping if four prep-behinds happen in one day, because that’s now an operations pattern, not a one-off.

The rule

The owner’s home page answers “is the business healthy?” The chef’s home page answers “is the kitchen ready?” The waiter’s answers “what do I need to know for service tonight?” Same data underneath, three different framings — pick the right one before opening anything.

How to use it

When you sign in, the home page renders the widgets your role’s profile lists. The default for owner is: today’s revenue first, today’s COGS second, this-week variance third, cash recon fourth, supplier reliability fifth, assistant sixth. Each tile is tappable and lands you on the underlying report — revenue tile → the revenue dashboard, COGS tile → the recipes cost view, supplier tile → the on-time-by-supplier leaderboard.

The venue picker at the top right matters most for you. Single-venue: the picker is one row, the home page is straightforward. Multi-venue group: the picker groups the venues under the chain name, and the home page has a quiet “rolled up across 2 venues” badge in the corner — every tile is the sum or weighted average across the group. Tap a tile and you get the per-venue split inside the report.

The assistant is on every screen via the floating “Ask” button. Ask it strategic questions — “which menu items are killing our margin this month?” — and the answer will name dishes by their dollar contribution and walk you through the gap. Ask it operational questions — “who’s on shift tomorrow?” — and it will route you to the schedule rather than fabricate. The assistant knows what it knows and where to send you for what it doesn’t.

When you run one location

Every widget is local. The cash reconciliation tile shows yesterday’s till at your one venue. The supplier reliability tile shows your one venue’s deliveries. The assistant’s answers are scoped to your venue’s data — your recipes, your suppliers, your menu, your prices.

When you run a group

The default tile set surfaces group totals. Each tile carries a small “by venue” chip — tapping it drops the tile into a small per-venue chart inline (no navigation). You see “iO Osteria did 84% of last week’s revenue; the new Hansar location did 16%” without leaving the home page. The full per-venue dive is one tap deeper.

When you want to change what’s on your home

Open Settings → Roles, find the owner role row. The persona section lets you edit four things: job description (one-pager about what the owner watches — useful when you hand the GM role to your daughter and she takes over the home view), assistant voice (the paragraph of framing prepended to every AI answer for owners), alerts (which key wakes your phone), and dashboard layout (drag-to-reorder which widgets show, hide the ones you never look at). Save once and the change applies across every venue you own.

Worked example

It’s Monday morning. Anna owns iO Osteria — two locations, one in Bangkok, one opening in Hansar. She signs in over breakfast and reads the home page in thirty seconds:

  • Revenue today (group) — ฿0 (it’s 8 AM, nobody’s open yet). Yesterday’s total: ฿184,000.
  • COGS yesterday (group) — 27.1%. Target is 26%. A one-percent slip across two venues is ฿1,840 of margin she gave up.
  • This-week variance — wagyu burger sold 22 portions less than last week’s 47. The carbonara held steady. Pizza pistacchio (new last week) sold 31 portions.
  • Cash recon — both venues reconciled to zero variance. Green.
  • Supplier on-time (week) — 92%. One late delivery from the wine supplier on Friday.
  • Assistant — Anna taps and asks: “Why is COGS up this week vs last?” The reply names the wagyu burger — its supplier just raised the patty price ฿40, and the menu price hasn’t moved. Two options offered: bump the menu price by ฿50, or switch to the secondary supplier whose price is ฿20 lower but rated 3.8 vs 4.5 on quality.

Anna didn’t open six dashboards to gather that. The home page assembled it for her, in her voice, before she’d finished her espresso.