The agentic workforce platform

The Agentic Labor Manager
for Hospitality.

LIFELENZ forecasts demand, builds the schedule overnight, then watches the shift as it trades, explaining what it sees and staging the fix before you need it. You decide. It does the work.

Chicago / Wheaton / Store Performance
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Day Health Live
Dinner is at risk: one short on grill from 5 PM and labor is running 0.8 pts over target.
64Profit & Throughput 58Workforce Reliability 92Compliance 76Service Delivery
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Now
11:40 Forecast +8% vs plan2:10 Missed break · Ava5:00 Miguel no-show · Counter
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Profit & ThroughputToday so far vs forecast
$5,411Sales−$752 vs plan
−12.2%vs forecastLunch −3%, dinner trending −19%
$72.54Sales per labor hourTarget $70
19.3%Labor %Target 18.5%
$1,044Labor cost14.4 hrs scheduled, 13.9 worked
LIFELENZ Store Performance screen building itself: health scores, forecast chart and AI recommendations

Why the world's biggest brands trust LIFELENZ

+1–3pp

Profit margin uplift

+20%

Sales per labor hour

50%

Less time building schedules

98%

Crew adoption of the app

20–50%

Improved forecasting accuracy

The challenge

On the frontline, labor is the #1 challenge.

Hundreds of staff per site

Big rosters, changing availability and constant swaps to keep on top of every week.

Biggest cost driver

Labor is the largest cost you can control in a restaurant, so every hour counts.

Labor need changing by the minute

Weather, promos and local events move demand all day, and the schedule has to keep up.

Labor laws & penalties

Break rules, minor limits and premium pay change by location, and every miss costs money.

Hours spent scheduling

Managers spend hours building schedules by hand instead of running the floor.

Churn & no-shows

Last-minute gaps leave shifts short and put pressure on the crew who showed up.

Availability & skill matching

Getting the right trained person on each station at the right time is hard to do by hand.

Targets & budgets to hit

Sales per labor hour and labor cost targets need watching every shift, not every week.

The cost of getting it wrong

Get it wrong, and it shows up everywhere.

01 · Forecast

Forecast demand to the quarter-hour

Years of historical data used to forecast demand in 15-minute intervals, automatically learning from human adjustments to improve over time.

Up to 50% more accurate than legacy products

02 · Optimize

Build optimal schedules in one click

Automated Scheduling considers the demand forecast, staff availability & skills, and pay rates to produce a name-populated, cost-optimized, fully-compliant schedule.

Right people · right place · right time

03 · Automate

AI optimizes schedules in real-time

Last minute no-shows? Our agents autonomously organize a replacement. Every action logged and reversible.

Trusted AI · fully auditable · you stay in control

AI IN ACTION

Three moments from one Wednesday.

This is one ordinary Wednesday in one restaurant, and the three moments where a normal day quietly loses money: a no-show at open, a break about to become premium pay, and a storm that rewrites the evening. Pick a moment to see exactly what the AI saw, why it mattered in dollars, and the fix it had ready, which you preview and apply exactly as a manager would.

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What it sawthe live signal, as it happened
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Why it costs youthe risk, priced in dollars
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The fix, readypreview it, then apply it
06:40The no-show

A scheduled opener never punches in, the cover is found, priced and offered before doors open.

Miguel didn't show for Counter

Counter goes uncovered 3:00–3:30pm with Rachel on break. Roughly $180 of dropped orders if nothing changes.

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Recommendation · Workforce ReliabilityAI
AP
Aiden P.Counter · scheduled 3:30pm
Call Aiden in 30 minutes early

Aiden is already rostered at 3:30pm. Pulling him forward to 3:00pm absorbs the gap in one move, no overtime, no new labor.

Off shift→On Counter
Counter cover−13:00–3:30pm
Orders at risk$180dropped
Manageron stationnot on floor
Applied. Aiden pulled forward to 3:00pm. Counter covered, no premium triggered.
14:45The break clock

A missed rest break is 15 minutes from becoming an hour of premium pay, caught while it’s still free to fix.

Carlos is 6h47m in with no break

A premium of $87 triggers at 3:00pm unless the break is logged within twelve minutes. He is on the floor right now.

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Recommendation · ComplianceAI
CM
Carlos M.Drive-thru · on since 8:00am
Send Carlos on break now

Drive-thru is inside its quiet window until 3:15pm and Priya is cross-trained to hold the lane. Sending him now clears the breach with no impact on speed of service.

Drive-thru→On break
Premium exposure$87at 3:00pm
Break compliance88.9%target 95%
DT speed3:31holding
Applied. Break logged. Premium avoided, compliance back on target.
17:02The storm

A storm cell moves the evening forecast, the roster reshapes for the 6pm rush before the rain starts.

A storm is about to rewrite dinner

Rain drops counter footfall and lifts drive-thru and delivery by half. Four channels move at once.

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Storm response · dinner channel shiftAI
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4 actions in this responseProfit & Throughput · 4 selected
Apply the storm response

Move Priya Counter→Drive-thru at 5:30pm · bring Zoe in 30 min early for delivery prep · extend Marcus in Kitchen to 9pm · pull Liam to Kitchen 6–7pm for surge cover.

4 people→One decision
DT speed4.8 minbreaching 4:20
Throughput32/hrat peak
Sales at risk−$1,700drive-thru
Applied. Four changes applied in one action. Crew notified, drive-thru held, kitchen clear into late night.
What the AI is watching

Five scores. One number you can act on.

Every restaurant, scored across the five things that decide a trading day, and rolled into a single Day Health number your operators can scan in seconds.

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Profit & Throughput

Sales, SPLH, labor % of sales

Are the hours you’re paying for turning into sales? Live sales vs forecast, sales per labor hour, and labor as a % of sales, scored against plan, not last week.

82

Workforce Reliability

Fill rate, no-shows, unfilled hours

Will the roster you published actually happen? No-shows, late starts and unfilled hours pull this score down the moment they occur, with cover options priced and ready.

95

Compliance

Breaks, minors, premium exposure

Your legal exposure, scored before it costs you. Missed breaks, minor-law limits and premium-pay triggers are counted while there’s still time to fix the shift.

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Service Delivery

Speed of service, order assembly

How the customer feels the schedule. Speed of service and order assembly against target, hour by hour, the first tier to slip when staffing is wrong.

100

Team Wellbeing

Coming soon

Coming soon: early-warning signals for the crew itself, like excessive consecutive shifts, cut breaks and schedule churn, before they become turnover.

How to read the scores
75–100on plan, leave it alone
60–74drifting, worth a look today
below 60costing you money right now
You are still in charge

AI that asks. Not AI that acts behind your back.

Every recommendation is previewable, reversible and logged.

Preview

See it before you commit

Every recommendation shows its projected impact first: speed, throughput, cost. Clear the preview and nothing happened.

Override

Your call always wins

Manual edits merge into the same record as a first-class entry, not an exception.

Audit

Who, what, when and why

Every action logged and reversible. Employee consent captured on punch edits where the rules require it.

Case study · McDonald's UK&I

A proven impact on sales, productivity and customer satisfaction across 1,600 restaurants

+20%Sales per labor hour
50%Reduction in scheduling time
98%Crew adoption rate
91%Schedules automated
20%Lower daily forecasting error
+6%Customer satisfaction

Deployed across the McDonald's UK & Ireland network, LIFELENZ automated scheduling, sharpening schedules, reducing costs and freeing managers to spend time on the floor.

McDonald's UK & Ireland · ~1,600 restaurants