AI for restaurants and local business, without an IT team

AI for your restaurants, with a partner who sets it up for you.

Most operators know AI matters but have no IT team, no time, and no interest in becoming technical. Expo is the partner that changes that. We connect all your data, put it to work with AI, and stand up agents for the real jobs in your business. You don't have to learn any of it. You just tell us what you need.

Connected to your data
How did the new wrap LTO do across all stores last week?
Plain English answer

The wrap LTO sold 8,400 units across your 62 stores last week and lifted check average about 9% where it was promoted. Twelve stores are under-attaching it. Here's the store-by-store breakdown, and a one-page recap for your franchise meeting.

LTO_by_store.xlsx Franchise_recap.pdf
Ask anything about your restaurants… Ask
Works in Claude ChatGPT
What is Expo

Expo is your AI partner.

Most software hands you a tool and wishes you luck. Expo does the opposite. We sit alongside operators who have no analyst, no IT department, and no patience for jargon, and we make AI actually useful for their business. You bring the restaurants. We bring the data work, the AI, and the agents. And a team you can just talk to.

How it works

How does Expo help a business use AI?

It happens in steps, and we do the hard parts.

01

We integrate all your data.

This is the part nobody else wants to do, and the part everything depends on. Your numbers live in a dozen systems that don't talk to each other: POS, labor, inventory, accounting, reviews. Expo pulls them together into one place and makes them line up across every store. Until this is done, AI has nothing real to work with. We start here.

Your systems · pulled into one place
ToastPOS
Restaurant365Accounting
CrunchTimeInventory
NCRPOS
SMGGuest
YelpReviews
One source of truthNormalized across 62 stores
Until this is done, AI has nothing real to work with.
02

We automate all your reports.

We customize every dashboard so your whole team works off one source of truth, not a dozen versions of the same spreadsheet. You don't need a data analyst, and nobody has to know SQL. Then Expo automates the reports out to the people who need them: your ops leads, your finance team, even your investors. The numbers show up on schedule, every week, with no one rebuilding a spreadsheet by hand.

Operating DashboardOne source of truth · all 62 stores
P5 · last 8 weeks
Net Sales$1.84M▲ 4.2% YoYWeekly
W1W3W5W7W8
Labor %27.4%▼ 60 bps
Food Cost29.6%▼ 0.9 pts
Prime Cost57.0%▼ 1.5 pts
Check Avg$18.40▲ 2.1%
Auto-sent to Ops · Finance · GMs · Investors every Monday
03

Your first agent goes to work.

Once your data is connected, Expo gives you an agent through the MCP, working right inside the tools you already have, like Claude and ChatGPT on your desktop. Ask it a question about your business and get a plain English answer. Ask it to build the weekly spreadsheet, and it builds it. Ask it for the deck for your franchise meeting, and it drafts it. No exports, no analyst, no "let me get back to you."

Claude Desktop · Expo connected
Build me the weekly sales spreadsheet by store.
Done. Net sales, labor, and food cost for all 62 stores, week over week. Want it emailed every Monday? Weekly_sales_by_store.xlsx
Connected via MCP Claude ChatGPT Gemini
04

We deploy more agents, for the actual jobs in your business.

This is where it gets specific to you. Need an agent to write your prep order off last week's sales? Need one to analyze how your LTOs are performing across stores? You tell Expo what the job is, and we deploy an agent built for your company to do it. You don't configure anything. You don't learn a platform. You talk to our team, and the agent shows up for the work.

Prep Order Agent Working
Task from your teamDraft Monday's prep order for Store #1842 off last week's sales.
Monday Prep Order · Store #1842
Drafted in 4.2s. Built from last week's sales and current on-hand. Send to kitchen
Why a partner

Why does this need a partner instead of just software?

Because the operators who most need AI are the ones with the least time to wrangle it. You run restaurants. You don't have an analyst, and you're not going to hire a data team to babysit a BI tool. The hard part was never the AI, it's the messy, fragmented data underneath it and knowing what to point the AI at. That's the part Expo owns, so you don't have to. You get the results of AI without having to become technical. That's the whole deal.

The difference

We're not your average software company.

When you buy most software, the last person you really talk to is the salesperson. You sign up, you get a login, and you don't hear from them again until it's time to renew. You're on your own to figure out the value.

Expo works the opposite way. We meet with our partners regularly, sometimes once a week. Because your data changes, your strategy changes, and AI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with on their own. We're there for all of it, making sure you're getting everything out of Expo and turning it into real business results, in real time. That's what being a partner actually means.

Quick answer

What is an AI agent for restaurant operations?

An AI agent for restaurant operations is software that connects to your restaurant systems, POS, labor, inventory, and guest feedback, and does real work on that data so you don't need an analyst. Expo is the partner that makes this work for operators with no IT team. Expo integrates your data, gives you an agent that answers questions and builds reports in plain English through tools like Claude and ChatGPT, and deploys task-specific agents for the jobs in your business. No BI build, no technical team required.

Integrations

What restaurant systems does Expo connect to?

Expo is agnostic to your stack. Operators connect their POS (Toast, Square, NCR and more), accounting and back-office systems (Restaurant365, CrunchTime), reservations (OpenTable), reviews (Yelp, Google), and guest-experience tools (Qualtrics, SMG). We've also pulled data from places most operators don't expect, like phone systems, in-store safes, and expense reports. If your numbers live in a system, Expo gets them in, normalizes them, and makes them usable by AI.

Toast Square NCR Restaurant365 CrunchTime Yelp Qualtrics SMG DoorDash + more
Proof

Does this actually work?

Operators using Expo report saving their finance teams 40+ hours a month on manual reporting, improving prime costs by up to 100 basis points, and lifting check averages around 10%. Dividend Restaurant Group cut hourly labor 50 to 60 basis points and reduced management turnover 30%. International Restaurant Management Group runs Expo as an "area coach" across 160+ Burger King and Popeyes restaurants in 40 states.


Trusted by national and regional operators

Whataburger Sullivan's Steakhouse Far West Services Burger King Eddie Merlot's Bibibop Pacific Catch Carl's Jr. Wiles Companies Popeyes
Common questions

Questions operators ask

No. That's the entire point of Expo. You don't need to know what an agent is, or how any of it works. You tell us what you need help with, and we set it up. Expo is the partner that handles the technical side so you can stay focused on running your restaurants.

Expo gives you AI agents and runs them for you. The first one is live in the MCP: it answers questions about your business and builds reports, spreadsheets, and decks in plain English through Claude and ChatGPT. From there, Expo deploys additional agents built for the specific jobs in your business.

Once your data is connected, Expo can deploy agents for specific operational jobs, for example an agent that drafts your prep order from last week's sales, or one that analyzes how your limited-time offers are performing across stores. You tell our team what the job is, and we build and deploy an agent for it.

Expo is agnostic to your stack. Operators connect POS (Toast, Square, NCR), accounting (Restaurant365, CrunchTime), reservations (OpenTable), reviews (Yelp, Google), and guest-experience tools (Qualtrics, SMG), plus less-expected sources like phone systems, in-store safes, and expense reports.

No. Expo is the data team and the technical partner. We integrate your systems, put your data to work with AI, and deploy the agents, so you don't have to hire an analyst or stand up a BI tool.

No. That's the biggest difference between Expo and a typical software company. We meet with our partners regularly, sometimes weekly, because your data changes, your strategy changes, and AI moves fast. We stay involved to make sure Expo keeps driving real business results, not just sitting there as another tool you pay for.

Let's put AI to work in your business.

Book a 20-minute demo. We'll show you what Expo connects, what your first agent can do, and how we'd deploy agents for the jobs you actually need.

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