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Run AI agents on every ticket, every shift, every store.

Multi-unit operators run governed AI on a single data foundation that survives every acquisition, every POS migration, every brand added. Keep your Toast, your Restaurant365, your Crunchtime, your Olo. Coexists with Snowflake and Databricks. We unify what they don't.

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The 2026 restaurant moment

42%ofrestaurantoperatorssaytheyaren'tprofitable.Theother58%won'ttellyouwhich5%oftheirstoresarebleedingthemdry.
Thechainsthatsurvive2026shipgovernedAIoneveryticket,everyshift,everystorewithoutrebuildingthestackeachtimetheyreplatformToastoracquireanotherbrand.McDonald'skilleditsIBMdrive-thruAIin2024.Wendy'sFreshAIhit86%in2025.Sameindustry.Differentdatafoundation.

+19.7%

wholesale beef YoY. US cattle herd at a 75-year low (86.2M head). US-Mexico cattle border closed since July 2025. Prime cost spirals without daily AvT reconciliation. USDA ERS Food Price Outlook, March 2026.

86%

Wendy's FreshAI drive-thru order accuracy without crew intervention. 22 seconds faster than regional average. Scaled from 160 to 500+ restaurants in 2025. Restaurant Dive · Google Cloud, 2025.

Killed

McDonald's ended its 2-year IBM drive-thru AI pilot at 100+ stores in July 2024 after viral misorder failures. No replacement announced as of May 2026. CNBC · Restaurant Dive, 2024.

+45%

restaurant tech M&A H1 2025 vs H1 2024. Crunchtime + QSR Automations merged June 2025. Olo went private under Thoma Bravo July 2025. Restaurant Technology News, 2025.

Who we serve best

Built for every multi-location concept

QSR, franchise networks, hotels, ghost kitchens, restaurant groups — each shape of the multi-location problem has its own playbook. Pick yours.

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Multi-Unit QSR

200+ Locations on One Page

Every store on a different POS, different payroll, different inventory system. Daily sales reconciliation eats your finance team alive — and prime cost variance hides the 5% of stores bleeding you dry.

  • Daily sales close in hours, not weeks — across the full network
  • Theoretical-vs-actual COGS reconciliation by station, shift, SKU
  • Demand-aware staffing: POS × weather × events × promos → per-15-min labor model
  • 683% ROI proven (Firehouse Subs, 1,370+ shops, Nucleus Research)
200+ Locations on One Page

Architecture · From POS chaos to one P&L

AI agents on every shift.
At transaction level. Inside a glass box.

Most platforms consolidate KPIs and hope nobody asks questions. Keboola consolidates at transaction level — every number on your franchise dashboard traces back to a single ticket in a single store. The hallucination-defense your CISO and CFO will both sign off on.

01 · SourceGoverned
Source — POS · Toast · NCR · Square · Micros · Lightspeed + R365 · Crunchtime · Olo · Deliverect + payroll · inventory · marketplaces

Source

POS · Toast · NCR · Square · Micros · Lightspeed + R365 · Crunchtime · Olo · Deliverect + payroll · inventory · marketplaces

02 · Standardize
Standardize — Items · modifiers · comps · voids · labor · COGS · royalty rules — one definition every location, in dbt

Standardize

Items · modifiers · comps · voids · labor · COGS · royalty rules — one definition every location, in dbt

03 · ReconcileCore
Reconcile — Daily sales · deposits · tips · marketplace fees · chargebacks. Closed before the GM walks in.

Reconcile

Daily sales · deposits · tips · marketplace fees · chargebacks. Closed before the GM walks in.

04 · Govern
Govern — Row-level security per franchisee · per brand · per region. Multi-tenancy as a primitive — not a 12-month build.

Govern

Row-level security per franchisee · per brand · per region. Multi-tenancy as a primitive — not a 12-month build.

05 · Activate
Activate — Corporate dashboards · franchisee apps · AI agents · reverse-ETL into Toast / R365 / marketing. Same source of truth.

Activate

Corporate dashboards · franchisee apps · AI agents · reverse-ETL into Toast / R365 / marketing. Same source of truth.

700+ pre-built connectors · Toast · NCR · Square · Micros · Lightspeed · R365 · Crunchtime · Olo · Snowflake · Databricks · BigQuery — coexists with your stack.

The platform

The Keboola data platform — built for hospitality at every scale.

What makes Firehouse-grade and BRIX-grade work possible: an open architecture you keep, governed AI that survives every audit, and a foundation that absorbs every M&A — so your stack churns, but your data foundation doesn't.

Pillar 01 · Open architecture

The stack you keep.

Switzerland of restaurant tech.

Toast, NCR Aloha, Square, Micros — keep them. R365, Crunchtime, Olo — keep them. Snowflake or Databricks — bring your own. Keboola sits above your stack and joins it. We don't replace your contracts. We make them worth their license fees.

  • 700+ connectors — Toast, NCR, Square, R365, Crunchtime, Olo, Deliverect
  • Coexists with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery — bring-your-own warehouse
  • MCP server for Claude, Cursor, in-house LLMs
  • Iceberg-native storage — no rip-and-replace, ever

Coexists with

ToastRestaurant365CrunchtimeOloSnowflakeDatabricks

Pillar 02 · Governed AI

Wendy's pattern, not McDonald's.

AI agents that survive an audit.

86%

Wendy's FreshAI accuracy · 500+ stores 2025 · 22 sec faster · vs McDonald's IBM AI shut down July 2024

McDonald's killed its IBM drive-thru AI because the data underneath wasn't ready. Wendy's won because it was. Keboola gives every AI agent — drive-thru, scheduling, food cost, marketplace — one governed source of truth. No hallucinations. No surprise model output. Every claim traceable to a ticket, a shift, a store.

Powers

Drive-thru AIDemand forecastAvT COGSSchedulingMarketplace reconRoyalty calc

CISO-defensible from day one

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPR-nativePCI-awareEU residency

Pillar 03 · Survives every M&A

One foundation through every acquisition.

Restaurant tech M&A +45%. Your stack churns.

Crunchtime + QSR Automations merged in 2025. Olo went private. R365 acquired Compeat then ExpandShare. Multi-banner groups acquired three more concepts this year alone. Keboola absorbs new sources without forcing the new brand to migrate. The stack you bought in 2022 doesn't have to survive 2026 — your data foundation does.

  • M&A-proof — absorb a new brand on a new POS without rebuilding
  • POS-migration tolerant — Toast → Square or Aloha → cloud, your data layer is unchanged
  • Multi-tenant RLS — onboard a franchisee group in days, not months
  • One bill, one governance plane, one truth across the portfolio

Proven through M&A

BRIX · 8 brandsFirehouse · RBI brandMulti-banner · 350+ loc

700+ connectors · Toast · NCR · Square · Micros · Lightspeed · R365 · Crunchtime · Olo · Snowflake · Databricks

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Verified by G2

Restaurant CIOs and IT leaders who bet on it — and won.

Real quotes from real technology leaders. Verified by G2 and hundreds of reviews from the people doing the work.

"All I can say is this: I wish we knew about Keboola sooner. The ability to build data pipelines ourselves in a very simple manner — that is what matters most."

John Howard

John Howard

Director of IT · BRIX Holdings

"Working with Keboola changed how we work with our franchisees. By giving them access to data, we're empowering them to make decisions that are best for their businesses."

Danny Walsh

Danny Walsh

VP Reporting & Analytics · Firehouse Subs

"Keboola freed us to concentrate on what really matters — our customers. Their scalable data operations set the stage for innovation in AI and beyond."

Tomáš Čupr

Tomáš Čupr

CEO · Rohlik Group

4.8on G2

Based on 100+ reviews from verified users — the people doing the work.

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Questions & answers

Frequently Asked Questions

What every operator, IT lead, franchise CFO, and procurement reviewer will ask before picking up the phone.

No. Keboola sits on top of whatever POS each location runs — Toast, NCR, Square, Micros, Revel, Lightspeed, custom. We harmonize the data, not the hardware. BRIX Holdings runs 8 brands on legacy POS systems through one Keboola foundation.
Daily consolidated sales is typically live in 6-8 weeks across the full network. The full reporting stack — labor, COGS, marketplace reconciliation, franchisee dashboards — lands inside 6 months. BRIX hit first insight in 3 weeks; Firehouse built Station Pulse across 1,200+ shops in 5 months.
Yes. Row-level security is built in as a primitive. Franchisees see their stores; corporate sees the network; regional managers see their region. Same model, different lenses, full audit trail. Royalty calculations live in code (dbt) — same definitions for franchisor and franchisee, no spreadsheet disputes.
DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, ChowNow, Postmates, Just Eat, Wolt, and direct ordering. Fees, promos, refunds, chargebacks, and payout cycles all reconcile back to the order. Effective marketplace take rate often exceeds 40% once promos and ads are added — we surface that variance per ticket.
Same approach. Opera, Mews, Cloudbeds, Stayntouch, Maestro on the PMS side; Micros, Toast, Simphony for F&B; plus spa, banquets, parking, and membership systems. We build one property-level P&L across every revenue center — USALI 12-segmented, brand-standard nightly close from one warehouse.
A 3-person data team spends 18-24 months on a partial version. Keboola delivers the full stack inside 6 months at a fraction of the cost — and you keep your engineers building product, not pipelines. Restaurant tech M&A is +45% H1 2025; the in-house build that worked in 2022 won't survive 2026's stack churn.
R365 is your accounting + inventory app. Keboola is the foundation that combines R365 with your POS, marketplaces, payroll, and CX so you can answer questions R365 cannot — like channel margin per franchisee or cross-brand demand patterns at a multi-banner group.
ToastIQ is excellent for stores running fully on Toast. It can't see the brand running NCR or the franchisee group on Square. Keboola is the layer that joins Toast + the rest — and survives the next POS migration.
Cortex Agents and Agent Bricks reason over your warehouse. Keboola fills the warehouse. Neither hyperscaler ships QSR connectors, restaurant chart-of-accounts mapping, franchisee-tenant RLS templates, or marketplace fee normalizers. We coexist with Snowflake and Databricks — bring your own warehouse — and do the QSR-specific ingestion + governance they don't.
Inside Crunchtime's data only. The holding-company question — cross-brand demand patterns, mixed-POS forecasting, cross-marketplace margin attribution — needs your data unified first. Crunchtime + QSR Automations merged June 2025; their combined platform is operationally dominant inside its own boundaries, and a foundation underneath ties it to the rest of your stack.

Ready to ship?

Production-ready AI for every ticket, every shift, every store.

"All I can say is this: I wish we knew about Keboola sooner."

— John Howard, Director of IT · BRIX Holdings (8 brands, 350+ locations)

Run any AI agent against your restaurant data — with governance, lineage, and audit trail your CISO, CFO, and franchise partners already trust. Live in 8 weeks. Coexists with Snowflake, Databricks, Toast, Restaurant365, Crunchtime, Olo.

SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · GDPR · PCI-awareCoexists with Toast / R365 / Snowflake / Databricks8 weeks to first daily close

Talk with the team

Balu Gopakumar

Balu Gopakumar · Account Executive

Multi-unit ops · franchise data platform

Martin Lepka

Martin Lepka · CMO

QSR strategy · AI-readiness for restaurants

Giorgio Pontillo

Giorgio Pontillo · CRO

Restaurant commercials · marketplace economics

A 20-minute call. Your concept count, your POS mix, your governance constraints. We tell you whether Keboola is the right fit before you commit anything.

No pitch deck.·No NDA needed.