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Run Your Deli Department on Afresh
Grocery-specific AI for smarter ordering, production planning, and inventory management for hot bars and prepared foods.
Grocery-specific AI for smarter ordering, production planning, and inventory management for hot bars and prepared foods.
Deli is where timing meets volume. Batch produce too much in the morning, and you throw food mid-day. Produce too little and you lose peak hour sales. Every decision rides on what someone thinks will sell that day.
Out-of-stock rotisserie chickens in the middle of the dinner rush
End-of-day waste from over-produced mac and cheese
Repurposed items aren't planned, so food goes to waste
Ingredient orders are disconnected from store production plans so you run low
Recipe intelligence, yield and perishability models, and intraday production plans
Afresh uses deli-specific intelligence to align production with actual shopping patterns and trace every prepared item back to its source ingredient for more accurate inventory tracking and smarter orders and plans.
Production plans split across the day, sized to lunch, afternoon, and dinner demand
Item mapping traces every transformation, from raw chicken to chicken salad sandwich, so upstream orders reflect downstream demand
Workflows consolidate prep for ingredients shared across hot bar items
Your deli roasts whole chickens for the hot case, pulls leftover meat for chicken salad, and turns chicken salad into sandwiches for the grab-and-go. Afresh helps you manage all of it, from raw chicken orders to the sandwich case.
Store Ordering
The right ingredients, in the right quantities
Afresh traces every chicken salad sandwich and pulled chicken serving back to the whole raw chicken to contextualize the data used for inventory and demand models. That means raw chicken orders reflect demand across the full transformation chain, factoring in true yield at each step.
Inventory Management
Always know what's behind the counter
Afresh tracks whole chickens in the cooler and finished rotisseries in the hot case, so every order and production recommendation reflects what's actually on hand.
Production Planning
What to roast, what to prep, and when to start
Store teams see recommended quantities for each rotisserie production run on their schedule: 12 chickens for the lunch rush, 6 for the afternoon, 6 for dinner.
Period Ending Inventory
Faster inventory counts with better accuracy
Inventory is always up to date, so at the end of period, store teams review pre-populated estimates for whole chickens and the rest of the department items, making inventory counts faster and more accurate.
DC Buying
Store and DC decisions stay connected
When a planned promotion for rotisserie chickens is set, DCs purchase orders for whole chickens adjust automatically to meet the expected increase in demand. Afresh's buying recommendation reflects what every store will sell, with lead times and supplier inventory constraints factored in.
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