Industries / Retail & Consumer
See which locations and products actually make money.
For multi-unit retailers, restaurants, and hospitality. Find the profit hiding in your POS data.
Who this is for
Built for businesses like yours.
Owner-operators running two to fifteen units — retail, restaurants, and hospitality — sitting on a point-of-sale system full of transaction data that rarely gets mined.
The problems we solve
Sound familiar?
- Profit by unit, daypart, and item is unclear
- Site-selection and expansion decisions made on instinct
- Labor and inventory eroding margin
- Customer loyalty run on gut, not segmentation
- “Where do we open next?”
How we help
The offer.
A Profit Map by unit, daypart, and item; the Customer Map with trade-area analysis to pick your next site; and labor and inventory targets.
The Aperture Method phases: All five phases
- Profit Map
- Customer Map
- Focus Plan
- Scoreboard
What the work looks like.
Representative case study · Illustrative
A five-unit fast-casual group deciding where to open next.
The group was doing well on the surface — revenue up, the owner already eyeing a sixth location. FOCUS reframed the question from “where do we expand” to “what makes a unit win here.” QUANTIFY built a Profit Map by unit, daypart, and menu item and exposed popular items sold at a loss once labor was counted, plus a busy flagship that kept the least. ILLUMINATE used trade-area and demographic data to explain two laggards and pinpoint strong sites for number six. CHART sequenced menu and labor fixes first, a data-backed site decision second. EXECUTE tracked unit-level margin. Illustratively, a group like this could lift blended margin through menu and labor changes alone, and choose its next site on evidence.
What you'd learn first
Which locations, hours, and items actually make money — and where should the next one go?
The Business X-Ray is a fixed-fee, low-risk first step — it answers exactly this before you commit to anything more.
See your business clearly. Then watch the strategy run.
Start with the Business X-Ray — a fixed-fee, low-risk first step.