The Carnus F&B Forecaster™ is designed to provide accurate, fast, and automated Food & Beverage Department labor and cover forecasts.

Proper staffing of restaurants, room services, banquets, bars, and lounges requires accurate forecasts of demand, represented by covers.  However, predicting the number of covers a restaurant is likely to experience a week in advance is extremely difficult. 

Covers are often affected by hundreds of variables and their subsequent non-linear interactions.  Even for the most seasoned food & beverage director with decades of experience, making adequate cover forecasts is a daunting, if not impossible task.  As a result of poor cover forecasts, hotels & restaurants often report:

Overstaffing, leading to excessive labor costs.

Understaffing, leading to poor service quality and overworked employees.

Inconsistent service quality caused by massive fluctuations in server to
 cover ratios.

Massive opportunity costs as a result of management spending up to 12
 hours per week gathering data and devising inefficient schedules.



Poor staffing that results from inaccurate cover estimates can lead to massive financial loss and poor service quality.  The Carnus F&B Forecaster™ is the solution to this problem.  The Carnus F&B Forecaster™ is a custom-tailored web program that uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies to yield accurate cover and staffing forecasts.  With the Carnus F&B Forecaster™, you will:

Significantly reduce overstaffing, thereby saving labor costs.

Significantly reduce understaffing, thereby improving service quality.

Maintain a consistent, high-quality service atmosphere year round.

Save on opportunity cost by freeing management to work on other
 revenue-generating activities or tasks.




Some features included with the Carnus F&B Forecaster™:

The Carnus F&B Forecaster™ incorporates the most cutting-edge
 artificial intelligence technologies to provide a non-linear forecasting
 solution that yields accurate cover and staffing predictions.

The software is automated; forecasts are produced in a matter of seconds
 following upload of your in-house files.

Forecasts can be viewed from anywhere in the world on any computer with
internet access and a browser.

All uploaded in-house records and generated forecasts are stored to a
centralized location in the included Carnus Data Depository™.

All data, files, records, and forecasts uploaded or generated by the Carnus
F&B Forecaster™ are stored in a unified format that may easily be
exported to a Microsoft Excel file for manipulation, reporting, and analysis.

Sharing information is now easy!  Any manager with a username and
password can login to the Carnus F&B Forecaster™ from anywhere in
the world to access forecasts or stored hotel information.

Your data and forecasts are secure.  The Carnus F&B Forecaster™ uses
servers located in a secure data center that incorporates biometric
identification verification, intrustion prevention systems, and an enterprise
network firewall. A username and password are required to access
our servers, and access may be limited to specific departments.

Additionally, your property will be able to take full advantage of the included Carnus Data Depository™, a powerful data storage solution designed for the hospitality industry.