07 · The Sandbox

What if we raise the burger
two dollars?

Model the menu change, the price move, the new shift mix — before you commit. See the projected margin impact across every property with the math, not a vibe. Decide before the owners' meeting starts.

What you can model

Four kinds of decisions, same engine.

Operators make consequential decisions every week, mostly with intuition and a back-of-envelope spreadsheet. The Sandbox replaces the spreadsheet with a model trained on your actual data — so you can stop guessing and start projecting.

01 · Menu price moves

Raise a burger $2. Drop a starter $1. See projected unit elasticity, revenue lift, margin impact, attach-rate ripple — across every property where the item sells.

02 · Menu engineering

Move an item from the front page to the back. Replace one starter with another. Bundle a wine pairing. Project the mix shift before you reprint.

03 · Labor shifts

Add a 4-hour mid-shift. Cut an opener. Model the impact on overtime, service speed, sales-per-labor-hour, and the cost of the change vs the projected lift.

04 · Promo windows

Wednesday happy hour from 4–7. $5 off the wine list Tuesdays. Project the cannibalization, the incremental covers, the net margin lift across the window.

A real scenario

"Raise the Truffle Burger $2 across 12 properties."

You're sitting with ownership Thursday morning. The question is whether to lift the Truffle Burger from $38 to $40 across the portfolio. Spreadsheet says it could be fine. The Sandbox says exactly what fine looks like.

Scenario · Truffle Burger +$2 · 12 properties · 90-day model
Projected revenue lift   +$184K (+2.1%)
Estimated unit elasticity   −4.8%
Net margin impact   +$142K (+1.6%)
Attach rate (wine pair)   stable · no risk
Worst-property impact   Plaza Pavilion +$8K
Best-property impact   Westgate +$23K

The model uses your last 90 days of POS data, your reviews, your reservation patterns, and your competitive set. It projects across every property where the Truffle Burger sells — so you don't blanket a portfolio decision when one site has the wrong customer mix.

Save the scenario, attach it to a comment thread for ownership, decide before the meeting starts.

The workflow

Save, share, decide. Repeatable.

  • Save scenarios by name. Build a library of moves you've considered, with the projections attached.
  • Share with ownership via a private link or PDF export. They see the same math you saw.
  • Comment threads on every scenario. CFO asks about elasticity assumptions; you answer in-line.
  • Decision audit trail — the scenarios you ran, the one you picked, the actual result tracked against the projection.

Show me my own scenario.

Twenty-minute demo. Bring a real menu decision you've been weighing. We'll model it live on your data.