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Restaurant AI Fails on Three Numbers
Sales, labour and cost of goods each mean something specific in food and beverage, and a generalist gets all three wrong in directions that look plausible. Sales taken gross rather than net of comps, voids and discounts. Labour taken as wages rather than burdened with taxes and benefits. Cost of goods recognised from a stock count rather than from consumption, so product sitting in the walk-in is treated as sold. If the figures do not tie back to the source systems, no insight should be produced.