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An optimisation engine that sits beside the existing system, reads what it already produces, and closes inventory planning. Aimed at restaurants kitchen teams, finding what the inspector would find, first.
In short: Inventory Planner for Restaurants, Run by Optimisation is an optimisation engine aimed at restaurants kitchen leads, covering inventory planning. It scores 71/100 on AltF Ideas, carried by demand (97) and held back by feasibility (29). Typical pricing is $1.9k–$39k per customer per year, with a first version reachable in six to twelve months for $33k–$107k.
Restaurants teams lose stockouts on the fast movers and cash tied up in the slow ones. It is the kind of task that is too small to fund and too costly to ignore. It scales linearly with headcount, so growth makes it worse rather than better.
Point an optimisation engine at inventory planning, and let people review output instead of producing it. Revenue is per-location, which suits a buyer who wants the cost to track the value rather than the seat count.
| Total addressable market | $376M |
|---|---|
| Category growth (CAGR) | 15% |
| Annual contract value | $1.9k – $39k |
| Pricing model | Per-location |
| Time to first revenue | 53 days |
| Startup cost to MVP | $33k – $107k |
| Build effort | 6-12 months |
Solver capacity that once needed a research budget now runs on commodity hardware. Restaurants is growing at roughly 13% a year, and this job has not been re-tooled since it was designed around paper.
| Who | The gap |
|---|---|
| The incumbent suite | Sells a platform; this job is one neglected module inside it |
| An internal hire | Works until volume doubles, then breaks again |
| An offshore back office | Cheaper per hour, but does not scale down to the tail |
Every customer wants their own edge cases encoded, so onboarding cost is the real constraint.
An idea you cannot act on is entertainment. Four concrete steps, wired to tools already running on AltFTool.
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