For multi-unit restaurant franchisees
Find the margin your stores are leaking. meezi does it.
Labor, overtime, scheduling, food cost and payroll for every store, with a dollar amount next to each problem and the name of the person who can fix it.
Read-only access. Nothing changes in your POS, and your franchisor sees nothing unless you invite them.
Found at one live franchise unit
of inventory variance over eight months, against $7.9K of waste anyone had written down. Five items made up most of it.
error on meezi's sales forecast, against 18.9% for the store's scheduling system. That gap is labor you schedule for no reason.
rise in the store's fry oil price since opening, sitting in its invoice history. Nobody had flagged it.
Where the money goes
On a $1.2M unit, a point is $12,000.
Franchise margins are decided by a few points of labor and food cost. Here's the arithmetic for a typical quick-service unit. Your margin review runs it on your own stores.
What one unit can recover
Some of these overlap, so we don't add them straight up. The range on the last line already accounts for that.
Run this on my stores →| 1 point of labor | $12,000 |
| One extra person on two slow hours a day | ~$11,600 |
| Overtime: 15 hours a week at time and a half | ~$6,200 |
| 1 point of food-cost variance closed | $12,000 |
| Payroll vendor and admin time removed | $5,400 – $13,800 |
| Supplier price creep caught a year sooner | varies |
| Per unit, per year | $20K – $35K |
Example arithmetic for a $1.2M unit at $16/hour, not a guarantee.
Five places margin leaks
We look in the same five places every time.
01 · Labor
See the hour with four people on the clock for $400 in sales.
Hours against sales for every store, hour by hour. Spot the store drifting from 24% to 27% labor while there's still time in the week to fix it.
Show me my overstaffed hours →
02 · Overtime
Catch overtime on Wednesday, not on payday.
meezi tracks every employee against the weekly and daily limits, including Colorado's 12-hour daily rule, and tells the GM who to keep off the schedule before the premium kicks in.
Find my overtime leaks →| Employee | Hours | Sched. left | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shift lead A. | 34.5 | 11.0 | +5.5 OT |
| Crew R. | 31.0 | 12.5 | +3.5 OT |
| Crew M. | 22.0 | 16.0 | — |
| Swap two shifts to M. | saves $214 |
03 · Scheduling
Your schedule is built on last year. Your sales aren't.
meezi forecasts each hour from recent sales, weather and local events, then shows which scheduled hours your sales don't support. Keep your scheduling tool; just stop paying for hours you don't need.
Check my schedules against my sales →| Hour | Forecast | Crew | Needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 am | $610 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 pm | $290 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 pm | $240 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 pm | $270 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 hours you don't need | $80 a day |
04 · Food cost
Know whether the gap is waste, theft, portioning or price.
Actual food cost against theoretical from your recipes, the items that make up the gap, and every supplier price that crept up since you last looked. Prime cost by unit, every period.
Find my food-cost gap →
05 · Payroll
Payroll, overtime rules and tips, without a separate payroll vendor. meezi does it.
Hours come straight from the POS clock, Colorado overtime is calculated for you, and every pay run is checked against the schedule and sales before it goes out. One system instead of three.
See what I'd save on payroll →| Store | Hours | OT | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| #101 | 1,412 | 6.5 | $24,180 |
| #102 | 1,288 | 0.0 | $21,940 |
| #103 | 1,530 | 31.0 | $26,770 |
| Checked against schedule | 2 flags |
Before open · The morning briefing
What your GM reads before the doors open.
Every line is something to do today, with what it's worth. No dashboards to dig through first.
- #101 led: $5,840 net, +13.1% vs recent Tuesdays. Labor 26.1%, on target.
- #103 labor hit 29.4%. The 2–5 pm block ran 5 crew for $260 an hour. Cut one at 2 pm: about $55 a day.
- #103 shift lead is at 34.5 hours by Wednesday. Move Friday's close to avoid about $130 of overtime.
- #102 down 6.2%. Nearly an inch of rain is forecast again today, so trim the 3–5 pm schedule by one.
Franchise back office in a box
The back office a five-unit group can't afford to hire.
Every week someone has to do these jobs, usually the owner at 10 pm. meezi does it.
Owners see every unit and every dollar. Area directors see their district. GMs see their store, with hours instead of pay rates.
- Daily flash reportSales, labor and checks for every store✓ meezi
- Labor against sales, by hourOverstaffed hours named, with dollars✓ meezi
- Overtime watchWeekly and Colorado daily rules✓ meezi
- PayrollPay runs, overtime and tips, checked against the schedule✓ meezi
- Food cost against theoreticalPlus supplier price creep✓ meezi
- Deposits against salesEvery deposit matched to the bank✓ meezi
- P&L by unitPrime cost and 4-wall EBITDA every period✓ meezi
- ReviewsGoogle and Yelp in one list, with a reply drafted in your voice✓ meezi
Free · No contract
We'll show you where one store is leaking money.
Give us read-only access to one location. In about two weeks we'll walk you through what we found on a 30-minute call, with a dollar amount on each item. You keep the findings whether or not you sign up.
- The hours your sales didn't support, named by day and hour
- Overtime you paid and overtime you're about to pay
- Food cost against theoretical, and the five items behind the gap
- Supplier prices that crept up
- What payroll costs you today, and what it would cost on meezi
- A per-unit dollar estimate for your group
What we need from you: read-only POS access for one store, plus inventory, payroll and accounting logins if you have them. We do the setup.
Built by franchisees. meezi comes from HeyBoh, a franchisee group in Colorado. You'll talk to people who run stores, not a sales team.
Received
Thanks. We'll be in touch within one business day.
We'll ask a few questions about your stores and set up read-only access for one location. If it's easier, reply to our email with a good time for a 15-minute call.
Questions
What franchisees ask us first.
Do you replace my payroll?
Yes. meezi runs payroll with hours from your POS clock and Colorado overtime rules built in, so you can drop the separate payroll vendor. The margin review shows what that's worth for your group.
Do you replace my scheduling tool?
No. Keep the one your GMs know. meezi shows which scheduled hours your sales don't support, so the schedules they build get tighter.
Which POS do you work with?
PAR Brink today, and we add POS connections on request. Tell us yours in the form and we'll tell you up front how long it takes.
Do I need my franchisor's permission?
Usually not. You're giving us read-only access to your own stores' data. If your franchise agreement controls POS access, we'll help you ask. Your franchisor sees nothing in meezi unless you invite them.
Will my GMs actually use it?
They don't have to log in. The morning briefing reaches them by text or email, a few lines each, and every line is something to do that day.
What does it cost?
meezi is priced per location, per month. We quote after the margin review so the number is based on your stores and what we found, not a list price.
How is the data secured?
Encrypted in transit and at rest, with system credentials encrypted per location. Access is read-only and logged. GMs see hours, not pay rates. We never sell or share your data, and we don't store guest personal information.