How does AI inventory counting work for restaurants?

Marble's AI inventory system uses computer vision to analyze photos or videos of your stockroom taken through our mobile app. The AI recognizes products, counts quantities, and updates your inventory levels automatically in minutes.

Can AI help with restaurant employee scheduling?

Yes, Marble Agents automate employee scheduling by collecting staff availability via SMS, optimizing shifts based on demand forecasts, and presenting final schedules to managers for approval.

What restaurant management tasks can AI automate?

Marble AI can automate inventory counting, refund dispute management, employee scheduling, supplier communications, purchase order generation, and provide intelligent business analytics and insights.

Who is Marble built for?

Marble serves independent restaurants, multi-location operators, franchise groups, and hospitality groups — bringing AI-native back of house operations to every kind of restaurant business.

The autonomous back of house for restaurants.

The first self-driving operating system for restaurant groups.
Powering the way you order, prep, schedule, and
more so your business runs more profitably.

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The Problem

The old operating stack was broken.
Dozens of tools stitched together with spreadsheets and guesswork.

What you were left with —

Manual Workflows

Hundreds of manual hours per month on inventory counting, ordering, scheduling, payroll, and more.

Food Waste & Stockouts

Preventable food waste due to unoptimized ordering, prepping, and portioning.

Labor Overruns

Significant labor overage due to unoptimized scheduling.

The solution

Reimagine your operation.Give your team more time for hospitality.

Inventory

Inventory records, AI counts, variance, and recipe costing.

Labor

AI scheduling, shift management, and timesheets.

Finance

Live P&L, invoices, expenses, and payroll.

Intelligence

AI workflows, forecasting, copilot, and reporting.

Purpose-built tools for your back of house.

Counting tools

Voice and vision inventory counts

Speak your counts or point your phone. Inventory updates as your team moves through the kitchen.

AI assistant

Your AI assistant

Ask questions, pull reports, and take action through a conversation with your business.

Autopilot agents

Agents on autopilot

Put recurring work in motion, with your team in control of approvals.

Document extraction

Intelligent document extraction

Turn invoices, recipes, and prep sheets into usable data, automatically.

Better decisions.
Every day, at every location.

Demand forecasting

Know what you’ll sell.

Forecast demand for every menu item, so your team knows how to order, prep, and schedule for the next service.

Agentic Ordering

Draft and place the right order.

Choose the best vendor and the right quantities using live prices, demand forecasts, and stock.

Agentic Prep Building

Know exactly what to prep.

Generate demand-informed prep sheets with the right quantities for every service, based on menu forecasts, recipes, and stock.

Agentic Scheduling

Build the right schedule.

Match each shift to demand, staff availability, and labor rules, with your team’s preferences built in.

Top restaurant brands
use Marble for

Purchase Orders

Employee Scheduling

Employee Timesheets

Cost Analytics

Vendor Management

Menu Engineering

Recipe Management

Prep Building

Invoice Reconciliation

Financial Analysis

Performance Tracking

Inventory Counting

Stock Tracking

Demand Forecasting

Purchase Orders

Employee Scheduling

Employee Timesheets

Cost Analytics

Vendor Management

Menu Engineering

Recipe Management

Prep Building

Invoice Reconciliation

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The Impact

Helping hospitality venues stay focused
and see measurable results.

Return on Investment (ROI)

Manual hours saved per location per week

Value of actively managed inventory

Reduction in food waste

Reduction in labor overage

Time saved on inventory counts

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Case Studies

Real operators, real results — don’t take our word for it.

How this multi-unit operator automated inventory management in less than a week

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97%Forecast accuracy

On item-level demand prediction

90%Faster inventory counts

Through computer vision and voice AI stock takes

6daysTime to fully onboarded

After the first site, every new location live in hours

Marble has completely automated tasks that used to take our teams hours of manual work every day.
Multi-Unit Franchise Owner, A&W

How We Work

Go live in weeks, not quarters.

Historically, software in this space has required a painful three-to-six month integration. That era is over. Marble fundamentally reimagines the product onboarding experience. Your operation is live within weeks, running on your real menu, inventory, recipes, vendors, and invoices.

Connect

Marble plugs into your POS, accounting, and payroll on day one. No rip-and-replace, no IT project.

Learn

Marble's onboarding agents automatically map and document how your operation actually runs: menus, recipes, vendors, par levels, invoices, schedules, and the complex relationships between them.

Compound

Every completed inventory count, order, prep sheet, invoice, and schedule makes the platform smarter. Marble compounds with every shift, every decision sharper than the last.

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