Offcut · Always-on ops watch for cafes and small kitchens.
Wake up to one inbox item, not seven dashboards.
Offcut surfaces the dollar-impacted anomalies worth acting on before service — paired with the move an experienced manager would make, from trimming prep to rebalancing labor or pushing back on a supplier quote.
Reach the team directly: offcut-aa5eiy@polsia.app
Walk-in #2
$86–112 spoilage risk
Produce quote
−7.4% vs. benchmark
Tuesday covers
−26% at 11:42
Prep volumes
−6% roast-hen
Illustrative operator voices
The brief earns its keep before the doors open.
Three independent-cafe perspectives on a shorter, more useful morning handoff.
How it works
Connect − Offcut reads − you act on one brief.
Owner-operators run thin margins and rarely staff a controller. Offcut replaces the spreadsheet-checking habit with one ranked list, ranked by the dollar on the line.
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Wire your existing stack
One short install. Offcut reads from Toast, Square, Lightspeed, TouchBistro or Clover. It also picks up reservation pacing, inventory draws, labor clock-ins and utility telemetry — no rip-and-replace.
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We rank anomalies in dollars
Every signal lands in the same ledger. A $86 walk-in-temp drift outranks a 3-minute clock-in delay. Offcut doesn’t score variance — it scores the dollar on the line and pushes the rest down.
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You wake up to one brief
A daily digest in your inbox at 6 AM. Each line carries the action an experienced manager would already take — counter-bid draft, shift move, work order, reorder threshold. Approve, edit, send.
Four receipts
Four things Offcut hands you every morning.
Each receipt is one opinionated action an experienced manager would already take — ranked by the dollar on the line, not the noise of the dashboard.
Waste trim
Trim yesterday’s pastry prep by X grams before the morning bake — caught at the prep line, not in the trash.
Labor trim
Pull a line cook off the 11-on slot when Tuesday covers look thin — on-deck vs. actual, in dollars.
Supplier talks
Send your Sysco tomato counter before their quote locks in — a drafted reply, not a spreadsheet guess.
One inbox
One ranked digest each morning — not seven dashboards to chase, not a logbook to skim.
Signals covered
Six live feeds. One opinionated ranking.
Offcut turns the noise of prep, reservations, inventory, labor and utility data into a single ranked inbox item. Each signal is grounded in a dollar, not a dashboard.
POS ticket flow
Toast, Square, Lightspeed, TouchBistro, Clover — Offcut reads prep volumes and add-on rates in real time.
Reservation pacing
Pace covers vs. expected cover curve; flags a slow Tuesday at 11:42 — before it costs you lunch.
Inventory draw
Ingredient usage vs. theoretical yield, per prep line. Catch the cilantro over-portion before the next delivery.
Labor clock-ins
On-deck vs. actual. Tightens reassignments when the 6pm rush looks thinner than the schedule planned for.
Utility draw
Lighting, refrigeration, HVAC draw — surfaces the walk-in that ran warmer overnight and is costing you spoilage.
Supplier pricing
Pre-bid benchmarks vs. prior quotes and the projected margin on today’s order.
What lands in your inbox
One ranked list. Today’s dollars, today’s actions.
Sorted by dollar impact, not by source. A $110 walk-in-temp outranks a 3-minute clock-in delay. Each line ships with the action an experienced manager would already take — you approve, edit, or send.
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Walk-in #2 drift
+$3.4°F since 1:15 AM. Projected spoilage over 6h: $86–112.
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Produce counter-bid ready
Sysco tomato quote 7.4% above last week’s benchmark. Drafted reply attached.
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Prep volumes on plan
Rosemary portions corrected. Roast-hen count down 6% to match covers.
- 5:42 AMWalk-in #2
Temp drift +3.4°F since 1:15 AM. Spoilage risk over the next 6 hours: $86–112.
- 6:10 AMPrep volumes vs. forecast
Yesterday’s rosemary over-portion cost $34. Today’s roast-hen count is dialed back 6%.
- 6:32 AMProduce supplier quote
Sysco’s tomato quote is 7.4% above last week’s benchmark. Counter-bid draft ready.
- 7:18 AMTuesday covers pacing
11:42 AM curve running −26% vs. last Tuesday. Recommend pulling the 11-on line cook to 10:30.
Pricing
Three plans. Below the inventory reference.
Offcut has a plan for one location, a natural upgrade for operators running 2+ locations, and a broader Pro / Operations surface. Every plan stays below the MarketMan AI-inventory reference of around $200 a month and bundles waste trim, labor trim, supplier negotiation and utility alerting — not per-feature. Run the margin what-if against your own kitchen before you pick a tier.
~$200 / mo
- AI inventory only
- Labor trim not included
- No supplier negotiation
- Utility alerting billed separately
Below $200 / mo
- Waste trim · labor trim · supplier negotiation
- Utility-data alerting shipped as a feature, not a regulated module
- Sits on Toast, Square, Lightspeed, TouchBistro, Clover
- One daily inbox item — not seven dashboards
Morning digest preview
Three anomalies, ranked by the dollar on the line.
See the anonymized three-card morning digest: one prep trim, one labor rebalance, and one supplier pre-bid, each with the action an experienced operator would already take.
~$42
Yesterday’s croissant pull ran 18% over plan before the 6 AM bake.
~$58
Opening coverage overlaps before ticket flow peaks at 10:30.
~$112
The morning egg quote is $112 above a lower comparable bid.
FAQ
Five questions paid traffic lands here with.
If you clicked through from a Meta ad and have ten minutes, these are the five objections café owners bring: price next to MarketMan, which POS Offcut actually reads, where the data comes from today, why it’s free right now, and what signing up actually commits you to.
Ready to see tomorrow’s brief against your stack? Write the team →
Next step
See tomorrow’s brief before you sign anything.
We’ll generate a sample morning brief against your stack — prep volumes, reservation pacing, supplier benchmarks — so you know the dollar impact before the first invoice.
or write directly: offcut-aa5eiy@polsia.app