PROJECTMISE Operating Intelligence
for Restaurants

From Chef Cory

Built from the kitchen.
Designed for clearer decisions.

Hi, I’m Chef Cory. I started my culinary apprenticeship at 16 and spent three decades in restaurants. Alongside the kitchen, I built a twenty-year career in technology and business intelligence.

Project MISE is an AI-powered operating system that helps restaurants make better decisions about food cost, labor, and profitability.

Follow the Journey

Food CostMenu MarginPurchasingLaborWasteControlsEverything in its proper place.

Chef working in a professional kitchen beside an illustrative Project MISE operating brief Illustrative sample · Actual results vary

Chef Cory30 years in restaurants20 years in technology & BIACF graduateMIT Applied Data Science

The Reality

Large restaurant groups
have teams.
Independent owners have
Tuesday morning.

Corporate groups employ controllers, procurement analysts, financial teams, menu strategists, and loss-prevention staff. Independent operators often make the same decisions alone, between service, payroll, vendor calls, and the next emergency.

  • Invoices
  • Recipes
  • POS & Sales
  • Labor & Payroll
  • Inventory
  • Vendors
  • Scheduling
  • Accounting
  • Reservations
  • Reviews
PROJECT MISEOperating Intelligence
for Restaurants
  • What happened?
  • Why did it happen?
  • What happens next?
  • What should we do?

What changes for your restaurant

Less guesswork. More room to run the restaurant.

A composed entrée on a restaurant plate

Protect Profitability

See which items make money, which quietly lose it, and where pricing or purchasing needs attention.

Organized restaurant inventory and prepared ingredients

Reduce Waste

Find the gaps between what should have happened and what actually moved through the restaurant.

A professional kitchen team during service

Run Smarter Operations

Connect staffing, prep, dayparts, sales, and purchasing so the next decision has real context.

Your Restaurant Operating Team

Specialized intelligence. Working for you.

Restaurant Controller

Financial performance, variance analysis, cash flow, and profit protection.

Executive
Chef

Recipe costing, portion standards, yields, and menu feasibility.

Menu & Product
Manager

Menu engineering, pricing, item lifecycle, and contribution margin.

Purchasing
Manager

Vendor pricing, contracts, credits, substitutions, and purchase optimization.

Labor & Operations
Manager

Scheduling, productivity, dayparts, prep labor, and operational efficiency.

Restaurant OVERWATCH

Loss prevention, fraud detection, exception monitoring, and controls.

One team. One source of truth. Clear decisions.

How It Works

How Project MISE works

1

Send What You
Already Have

Invoices, menus, recipes, POS, payroll, inventory—we accept it all.

2

Project MISE Builds the
Operating Model

We organize, clean, and connect your data.

3

The System Finds Movement
and Exceptions

We identify changes, trends, and what deserves attention.

4

Your Operating Team
Prepares the Brief

You get clarity, context, and recommendations.

5

You Decide What
Happens Next

Approve, adjust, act. We track the results.

Sample Daily Operating Brief

Good morning. Here is what needs attention.

  • Food cost increased 1.6 points.
  • Three vendor products increased more than 10%.
  • Two menu items are now below contribution targets.
  • Friday prep exceeded expected demand by 14%.
  • One refund pattern requires review.
Estimated monthly opportunity: $6,840 Illustrative sample only. Actual results vary.

Our Mission

We believe independent restaurants deserve enterprise-grade intelligence.

Restaurant owners should not have to choose between operating on instinct and hiring an executive team they cannot afford.

Project MISE exists to make restaurant financial and operating intelligence accessible to owners, chefs, managers, and families carrying the weight of the business every day.

We are not building technology for technology’s sake.

We are building a practical system that helps restaurant owners protect what they built, keep more of what they earn, and make decisions with greater confidence.

Chef Cory’s Story

Where the kitchen and the data meet.

My restaurant life began with an ACF culinary apprenticeship at 16. Thirty years later, I still know the pressure behind every invoice, prep list, payroll run, and late-night decision.

Alongside the kitchen, I spent twenty years building technology and business-intelligence systems. MIT’s Applied Data Science program in 2021 gave those two paths a common language.

Two decades ago, we built MisEnSoft, an early food-cost platform. Project MISE is not a revival of old software.

It is my attempt to give independent operators the support big groups take for granted.

Chef finishing a dish before service

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