🤖 SFO — Smart Food Operations

The copilot that knows your operation better than anyone

Inventory, menus, production, suppliers, today's costs — all in one conversation. Ask in natural language, get answers backed by real data, and approve actions without navigating a single menu.

Natively integrated with Óptimo · Your data is only yours

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How much does it cost to prepare 200 lunches today?
For 200 portions of today's menu, total cost is $856,000 (chicken went up 12% this week). I suggest swapping thigh for breast — you save $94,000 with the same protein profile.
How much chicken do I have in stock?
Main warehouse: 48 kg (expires in 2 days). Enough for today. You'll need to restock tomorrow — want me to generate the purchase order?
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conversation replaces dozens of screens
6:00
a.m. — your daily briefing is already waiting
100%
of actions go through your approval
24/7
available whenever the operation needs it
The problem

The data is there — but reaching it takes too many clicks

How much does today's menu cost? What's expiring this week in the warehouse? How did yesterday's production close out? The answers exist in your platform — but between reports, filters and screens, nobody checks them in time.

The difference

From "find the report" to "ask and decide"

SFO understands your question, checks your real data, and answers the way the best operations manager would: with the number, the context and the recommendation. And when it's time to act, it asks for your approval — it never decides alone.

  • Natural language — no training, no manuals
  • Answers with live data from your operation, never generic
  • Suggested actions that you approve or dismiss
Which ingredients went up this week?
3 with strong variation: potato +22.9%, chicken breast +12.4% and onion +9.1%. The potato affects 8 menus in your cycle — want me to show the impact per menu?
Yes, and tell me which one to fix first
The biggest impact is "Special tray": margin dropped from 24% to 9%. Swapping the potato for a native variety recovers 11 points. Should I apply the substitution to the recipe?
What it can do

A digital operations manager, always available

Morning briefing

Walk into the kitchen already knowing what matters today

Every morning SFO puts together the day's summary: what's being cooked, what went up in price, what's about to expire in the warehouse, and what needs your attention. Critical items first, no noise.

  • Day's summary ready before the shift starts
  • Priorities ranked by impact on your margin
  • Proactive initiatives: SFO detects and proposes, you decide
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Good morning — Wednesday briefing620 portions scheduled across 3 sites
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48 kg of chicken expire in 2 daysSuggestion: move Friday's menu up
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Potato +22.9% — impacts 8 menusSubstitution plan ready for your approval
Close today's production: we served 612 of 620
Logged ✓ — 612 portions served (98.7% of planned). Today's waste is within the normal range. Real cost per portion was $4,120. Should I generate the client summary?
Generate it, and log the fridge temperatures
Done. Report generated and HACCP temperature log completed for all 3 fridges. Everything in range ✓
Daily operations

Production, HACCP and purchasing without leaving the chat

Log the day's production, complete HACCP checks, check menu cycles and generate purchase orders with supplier benchmarking — all conversationally, from your phone if you need to.

  • Day-close and automatic summary for your clients
  • Digital HACCP: temperatures, cleaning, food handlers
  • Suggested purchase orders based on inventory and prices
Operational memory

Learns your operation — and gets more useful every week

SFO remembers your patterns: which substitutions you accept, which suppliers you prefer, how you react to price spikes. When a situation repeats, it already knows what worked last time.

  • Recognizes similar past situations and their solutions
  • Adapts to each operator's and each site's preferences
  • Your data is yours: only your operation can access it
I detected a situation similar to March 14th: tomato prices rose >18% and that day you substituted with long-life tomato with good results (margin held at 23%). Should I repeat that move on the 4 affected menus?
Do it 👍
Applied to all 4 menus ✓ — projected margin holds at 22.8%. I'll let you know if tomato prices normalize so we can revert.
How it works

Trust first: SFO proposes, you approve

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Learns your operation

SFO connects to your data in Óptimo: menus, recipes, inventory, production and suppliers. From day one it answers with your real numbers.

02

Understands the context

It doesn't just look up data: it cross-references market prices, your inventory and your schedule to answer like an analyst who knows the business.

03

Acts with your approval

Every action — a substitution, a purchase order, a log entry — goes through you. SFO only executes what you approve, and it's tracked who approved what.

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us about SFO

What can SFO answer?

Everything that lives in your operation: how much it costs to prepare N portions today, what's in the warehouse and what's about to expire, how today's production is going, which ingredients went up this week, which supplier is your best option. If the data exists in your platform, SFO answers in seconds.

Does SFO make decisions on its own?

No. SFO proposes — you decide. When it detects something actionable, it presents it with the analysis and waits for your approval before executing any action.

Does SFO require me to use Óptimo?

SFO is natively integrated with Óptimo: menus, inventory, production, HACCP and suppliers. It's the same data, made conversational. Together they cover the full operational cycle.

Is my data used to train other people's models?

No. Your operational data is yours and is used exclusively to answer you. Each operator only accesses their own information, with roles and permissions per site.

How do I try SFO?

Request a demo at demo.akenda.co or email contacto@akenda.co and we'll show you the copilot answering questions about a real operation in your sector.

⭐ Better together

SFO answers with the data that Óptimo builds

Daily wholesale prices, food cost with real waste factors, nutrition and ML prediction — the cost intelligence that powers every answer from the copilot. Meet Akenda's flagship product.

Learn about Óptimo →

Ask your operation

Book a demo and ask your real questions — SFO answers with data from an operation like yours.