For Independent Restaurants

Your back office
runs itself now.

HouseCount is an AI operations manager that handles inventory, scheduling, reviews, and daily briefings for independent restaurants. It works while you sleep.

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Restaurants don't have an operations problem. They have a bandwidth problem.

You opened a restaurant to cook, to create, to feed people. Instead, you spend 14 hours a day on scheduling, supplier calls, food waste tracking, and scrolling through Yelp reviews at midnight. The back office is eating the front of house.

4-10%
of food costs lost to inventory waste annually
14h
average daily hours for independent restaurant owners
$55K
average cost of a back-office operations manager
3-5%
net profit margins, the thinnest of any industry

Not a dashboard. An employee.

HouseCount doesn't wait for you to check in. It monitors, decides, and acts.

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Inventory Autopilot

Tracks stock levels, predicts what you'll need based on covers and seasonality, and drafts supplier orders before you run out.

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Smart Scheduling

Builds staff schedules that account for demand forecasts, labor costs, and availability. Handles swap requests without you touching it.

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Review Monitor

Watches Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor 24/7. Flags urgent issues, drafts thoughtful responses, and tracks sentiment over time.

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Morning Briefing

Every day before service, HouseCount sends you a one-page briefing: what's selling, what's low, who's working, what reviews came in, and what needs your attention. One read, full clarity.

You built a restaurant to feed people, not to manage spreadsheets.

HouseCount gives you your kitchen back. The back office runs itself. You run the restaurant.