Restaurant software for fast-casual and counter-service restaurants
Sturgeon gives fast-casual operators one view of delivery orders, the kitchen board, labor against sales, and daily food cost. It reads from the POS and delivery apps you already use, so there is nothing to replace.
Where the day goes wrong
Three delivery tablets and a kitchen screen
Every delivery app has its own tablet, its own ticket, and its own promised time. In the middle of the rush, orders get missed or confirmed late.
Labor you find out about two weeks late
Overtime shows up on payroll after it happened, and a schedule built on last week's guess is wrong by Tuesday.
High volume, thin margin
On a short menu sold hundreds of times a day, a few cents of drift per portion is real money, and it only shows once the month is counted.
What Sturgeon does about it
- Online ordersEvery restaurant delivery app in one order queueDoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub orders land in one list with what was promised and when. Confirm, start, and mark ready from one place.
- Kitchen displayA kitchen display system that keeps timeOne card per dish in sent, fired, and ready lanes, with allergens flagged. A card's edge turns amber at ten minutes and red at twenty.
- AI consultantAn AI consultant for your restaurant, not a chatbotAsk Stu who should close Friday, what to 86, or which vendor is creeping on price, and he answers from your own sales, schedules, and invoices.
- Food cost & wasteRestaurant food cost you can trust: recipes, waste, and live inventoryFood cost computed daily from your recipes, POS sales, invoice prices, and logged waste, while there is still time to act on it.
- Checklists & tasksRestaurant checklists and tasks that find their ownerOpening lists, line checks, and punch exceptions become tasks staff pick up on their phones, with the manager's sign-off at close.
Worth reading
Questions
Does Sturgeon combine DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub orders?
Yes. Orders from all three land in one list with what was promised and when, and every order puts itself on the kitchen screen. Online orders and the kitchen screen are part of the Full stack plan.
Can Sturgeon predict overtime?
Yes. Sturgeon reads schedules and punches from 7shifts or Sling and flags overtime days ahead with a fix suggested, instead of the restaurant finding it on payroll.
Does Sturgeon include a kitchen display system?
Yes, in the Full stack plan. The kitchen screen shows one card per dish in sent, fired, and ready lanes, with dine-in, takeout, and delivery on one board and allergens flagged.
Do I need to change my POS?
No. Sturgeon connects to Toast, Square, or Clover for sales and works over the tools you already run, with no data-migration project.
Other kinds of restaurant
See your own numbers in Sturgeon in under a week, with your POS connected, your forecasts calibrated, and Stu answering. White-glove onboarding is included.
No credit card. No six-month contract. Your data stays yours.