Restaurants don’t fail because the owner got it wrong. They fail because nobody told them in time. NO.2 turns the targets you already have into three numbers you decide with every day — what today needs to sell, how many labor hours those sales pay for, and what is left to spend. Then it comes to you, before service.
No card, no sign-up. The demo below is the real product, running on a real restaurant's operating model with the identity removed.
$432 of it by 7:20 PM to stay on pace.
HEARD ✓NO.2 is not accounting software, not a BI tool, and not a scheduling system. It sits on top of what you already run and answers the four questions you actually decide with.
Daily and weekly goals built backwards from your fixed costs and the profit you want.
Affordable hours by day and by service period — what today's sales will actually pay for.
Food and beverage purchasing budgets for the week, and what is left of them right now.
At most 4 alerts a day, each one saying what happened, what it means, and what it would take to finish on plan. It has no opinion about what you should do.
The app is there when you want it. The rest of the time NO.2 comes to you with the two numbers that decide the day — sales and labor, each against what it should be, and the size of the gap. What you do about it is your call to make.
Four texts a day by default, highest severity first — raise it or lower it in Alerts. Quiet hours 10 PM to 7 AM, except for anything that still needs acting on tonight. Tap HEARD in the app and it stops asking.
This is the product itself, running on a real restaurant's operating model with the identity removed. Today's target, what it buys in labor and purchasing, and where the week stands against the one before it. Yours would read the same way, with your numbers in it.
Copper Cactus Kitchen is not a real restaurant — the name, the location and the trading calendar are invented, and no operator's identity appears anywhere in the demo. The economics behind it are real, and so is the math: every calculation is deterministic and runs exactly the same way on your restaurant's data.
A franchise hands its operators a playbook. You got a key. NO.2 hands over the operating half of that playbook — the demand plan, the labor benchmark, the purchasing guardrail — rather than leaving you to invent all three alone.
Tell NO.2 your fixed costs, your target percentages, and the profit you want. Once.
It becomes sales goals, affordable labor hours and purchasing budgets your team can actually use.
Every week closes against its own forecast. It doesn’t learn — it checks itself against what actually happened, and changes what it uses when something works better. Most tools give every restaurant the same forecast and never check.
Decisions made in the middle of service rarely get priced at the time. Here is what two ordinary ones are worth over a month, as arithmetic.
Illustrative arithmetic, not a result: 1 labor hour a day at a $22 loaded rate over 30 days, and 1 point of food cost on $150k of monthly net sales. What is actually there varies by restaurant and by how the week is running.
NO.2 onboards 10 restaurants at a time. Not to be precious about it — we are making a big promise, and we would rather check it against 10 restaurants than a thousand. Get your spot in line and we will come to you when your group is up.
We'll be in touch when the next group opens. If anything in the demo felt confusing, wrong, or missing, reply to that email and tell us — blunt is useful.