If you’re still building schedules without Ando, you’re flying blind.”
Paul Wellons
“If you’re still building schedules without Ando, you’re flying blind.”
That’s what David Greengold, CFO at Juan's Flying Burrito, CFO told me after seeing Ando in action.
Most restaurant technology asks operators to be patient. You implement the system, wait months for it to learn your business, spend time tuning it, and hope the results eventually show up. Juan's Flying Burrito proved that doesn't have to be the case.
A five-location operation, with four restaurants in New Orleans, Juan's operates in one of the most volatile demand environments in the country. Mardi Gras, holidays, festivals, and event traffic can completely reshape customer patterns from one week to the next.
Their previous scheduling tool was doing what many systems do: repeating historical habits. Shifts were grouped into mornings and nights because that's where they had always been, not because demand called for it. Managers were largely copying schedules forward, making adjustments around the edges.
Results:
Live deployment across five locations in 4 weeks
~90% daily forecast accuracy
~95% weekly forecast accuracy
Performance maintained through Mardi Gras demand volatility
Employee adoption with virtually no training required
Most importantly, Juan’s could begin turning real demand patterns into smarter staffing decisions immediately.
The Juan’s team told us that what they had spent years trying to build showed up in the first week.
That is the advantage of highly accurate AI-generated forecasts. The patterns already exist inside the business. Ando finds them, understands them, and turns them into labor decisions quickly enough to matter.
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