Running a Group Off Last Night's Stitched-Together Export

You own five restaurants and you find out how they did yesterday, today, by hand.

The nightly export-and-stitch

Each location runs its own POS. Each one spits out its own report. So someone — maybe you — pulls five exports, lines them up in a spreadsheet, and assembles the one view that actually matters: how the whole group is doing on sales, labor, and cost. It's a nightly chore, it's always a day stale, and the moment a number looks off you can't drill in without re-pulling everything.

Worse, the data you need most is the data the incumbent system holds hostage. Your numbers are in there — labor percentage, item mix, voids — but exporting them cleanly is deliberately painful, so you stay stuck reconstructing your own business from PDFs.

If you have to rebuild the group view by hand every night, you don't have a group view — you have a chore.

One pane, all locations, now

What an operator needs is the group rolled up live: labor percentage per site as the shift runs, sales against forecast, cost trends side by side — and the ability to drop into any one location without a fresh export.

• Every location feeding one real-time view, no nightly stitch
• Labor percentage and sales per site while the day is still happening
• Your data in your hands, not locked behind an incumbent's export wall

Build the rollup you actually run on

This is where a fractional C-suite team earns its keep. APLINO's fractional CTO, CPO, and senior engineers start with a Blueprint of how your locations report and where the data is trapped, then ship an MVP that unifies the group in weeks — owned by you — with ongoing engineering as you add sites.