Premium restaurant intelligence platform
Turning seven months of trading data into a live executive decision environment.
A full-stack analytics concept for an independent premium dining operator, demonstrating how revenue, labour, menu performance, promotions, and guest experience can be unified into one real-time intelligence platform — purpose-built for owners and operators who need to act daily, not monthly.
Featured result
Dashboard pages
9
KPI domains covered
Revenue, margin, labour, sentiment, promotions
Next-step platform
Power BI ready
Client context
Independent premium dining operator
Engagement
Full-stack dashboard concept, semantic model, executive storytelling, Power BI roadmap
Timeline
Six-week concept sprint
The challenge
Revenue, labour, promotions, menu performance, and guest feedback were all held in separate systems — making daily management reactive and commercially blind.
Leadership needed a single executive view that explained what was happening, why it was happening, and where action was needed before it became a problem.
Discount leakage, low-margin best-sellers, and peak-hour staffing gaps were buried in raw exports that no one had time to interpret.
What was delivered
The solution
Designed a nine-page premium intelligence platform covering executive overview, sales performance, menu engineering, customer loyalty, promotions, operations, staffing, finance, and raw-data exploration.
Built a full semantic model connecting orders, items, categories, customers, employees, offers, feedback, rota, salary, and expense data into a single analytical layer.
Translated operational business questions into management alerts and narrative signals — so the dashboard reads like a decision system rather than a passive report.
Business impact
Leadership gained daily revenue, margin, staffing, and guest-experience visibility in a single executive view.
The semantic model and KPI logic were designed to port directly into Power BI with minimal rework — reducing future build cost significantly.
The concept surfaced an 8–14% revenue uplift opportunity through better discount control, staffing alignment, and menu mix decisions.
The story behind the work
The brief behind the work
The client did not need more reports. They needed a decision environment — one place where the owner could see revenue health, channel mix, labour pressure, promotion efficiency, and guest sentiment without switching between systems or waiting for month-end.
How the platform was structured
The solution was built as a premium, presentation-ready intelligence platform backed by a robust semantic model. Every page was designed so the same KPI logic and data structure could be reproduced in Power BI without rebuilding from scratch.
The commercial difference it makes
For independent dining operators, the gap between growth and margin erosion usually sits in a small number of controllable issues: discount leakage, low-margin best-sellers, late-hour staffing pressure, and missed upsell windows. This platform makes all of them visible and actionable.
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