Proactive AI for restaurants
Protect margin in every location,
before the P&L closes.
Restaurants run on POS, labor, inventory, delivery, and guest data spread across hundreds of locations. Cimba unifies it into one governed view and delivers the Next Best Action to the right team, with a full audit trail on every run.
What's a Next Best Action?
Not another dashboard. One specific, recommended move (“trim two hours off Tuesday's PM shift at Store 214”), routed to the person who can make it, with the reason and a full audit trail.
Food and labor cost, caught in real time
The two biggest cost lines move every day with prices, waste, and scheduling. Cimba watches them continuously, so you catch the drift before period-end, not after the money is spent.
Waste caught before it's counted
Over-ordering and spoilage quietly erode margin at the unit level. Cimba flags the risk from sales and inventory signals, with a fix attached, before the next count.
Location drift, surfaced before the district report
A location's sales, traffic, or throughput can slide for weeks unnoticed, weather swings and local events included. Cimba surfaces it as it happens, not after the trend is set.
Guests won back before revenue shows the loss
Repeat traffic and loyalty are early signals of a location's health. Cimba scores them continuously, so you can act while guests are still winnable.
The real problem
You don't have a reporting problem. You have a nobody-acted-in-time problem.
Your POS and BI stack already tells you what happened, then waits for someone to notice it, ask the right question, and chase it down. By then the shift is over and the food cost is already spent. Cimba watches every location continuously, explains why margin is moving, and routes the one action that fixes it to the person who owns it, before period-end, not after.
Why restaurant teams choose Cimba
One platform, not multiple tools
Cimba runs analytics, the Next Best Action, and task execution in a single native system, so insight, decision, and action do not live in separate tools that never talk.
The right action, to the right team, before anyone asks
Governed, role-based access puts the Next Best Action in front of the person who owns it: corporate leadership, ownership group, or the general manager on shift, each seeing only what's theirs.
Impact you can see in the P&L, not just a dashboard
Margin protected, waste cut, and labor aligned to real demand: outcomes that show up in the numbers, not just a report.
Built for enterprise scale
Deploy across brands, regions, and thousands of locations, grounded in the data systems you already run, with a full audit trail on every run.
Cuts alerts, doesn't add them.
Cimba replaces the scattered notifications your teams already get with one prioritized Next Best Action, routed to the person who owns it. Not another feed to check.
Sample use case
Margin caught shift by shift, not explained at period-end
A multi-brand restaurant group ran POS, labor, inventory, and delivery data in separate systems, reviewed weeks apart, so overruns surfaced at period-end and waste only after inventory counts.
~$2.3M
annualized margin recovered (~1.4 pts)
22%
less unit-level spoilage
~4 wks
to live, acting within two weeks
SKU 4821 · Store 112
2 days of stock · sell-through +38%
Summer promo · West region
Margin +12% vs plan
Next Best Action
Reallocate 400 units from DC-East to Store 112 before Friday, and extend the West promo to comparable stores.
Restaurant workflows Cimba runs
Unit-level P&L and margin
Track food cost, labor percentage, and contribution margin per location, with the Next Best Action for the operator.
Enterprise-ready by design
Cimba works with the data systems you already run and fits the way large restaurant and ownership groups already operate, from data to deployment.
Integrations
Connects to your existing data layer: data warehouses, business systems, spreadsheets, and delivery platforms, with no rip-and-replace.
Security and governance
SOC 2 Type II, role-based access, and an append-only audit trail on every run.
Deployment across brands and regions
Roll out across brands, regions, and thousands of units on consistent, governed workflows.
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Frequently asked questions
By watching food cost, labor percentage, and contribution margin per location continuously and surfacing the driver with a fix routed to the operator, instead of explaining the overrun at period-end.
It forecasts demand using sales, inventory, weather, and local event signals and surfaces over-ordering and spoilage risk with a reorder or prep adjustment attached, before the loss is counted.
Yes. Cimba scores location and guest health from visits, loyalty, and spend, and surfaces where to win guests back before the drop shows up in revenue.
Yes. Cimba tracks third-party commissions, channel mix, and item-level profitability so off-premise grows margin, not just order volume.
Cimba is deployed once, at the franchisor or ownership-group level, giving one governed view across every brand and location. Individual restaurant teams get visibility into their own location's performance and next steps; they don't need to purchase or manage the platform themselves.
Cimba connects to your existing data layer: data warehouses, business systems, spreadsheets, and delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, with no rip-and-replace. See the full connector list on the product page.
Timelines vary with the complexity of your data and setup. As a benchmark, Cimba connected to Swiggy's systems within the first month and had the team acting on Next Best Actions within two weeks.
No. Cimba replaces the scattered alerts your team already gets across systems with one prioritized Next Best Action, routed to the person who owns it, not another dashboard or feed to check.
BI shows what happened and waits for you to ask. Cimba monitors continuously, explains the why, and delivers the Next Best Action, with a full audit trail.
Yes. Cimba deploys across brands, regions, and thousands of units, grounded in the data systems you already run.
Operations and unit leadership, finance, supply and inventory, labor and workforce, and the teams managing franchisees, ownership groups, and accounts.