Running a successful restaurant operation means making hundreds of decisions every day, fast. But traditional reports and dashboards often slow operators down instead of helping them move forward. Endless spreadsheets, dense charts, and complicated tables require time and expertise to interpret, leaving teams stuck analyzing data instead of acting on it.
That’s exactly why we created Widget View.
There's a moment every restaurant operator knows well.
It's 11:20 on a Tuesday. Lunch rush is forty minutes out. Your phone buzzes, a text from a district manager asking how check averages are tracking this week. You're standing in the middle of a dining room, mentally running a labor count, and the answer to that question is sitting inside a report you'd have to pull up on a desktop, log into, filter, and cross-reference with last week's numbers.
You either make them wait, or you guess.
That gap between the question and the answer, between the data and the decision is exactly what Widget View was built to close. And depending on where you sit in a multi-unit restaurant organization, it closes it in a different way.
At the COO level, the problem isn't access to data. It's signal-to-noise.
There are dashboards. There are reports. There are weekly calls and regional summaries and period-over-period comparisons sitting in someone's inbox. The information exists, it's just scattered and usually a day old by the time it lands.
Widget View gives a COO something different: a single view where the story is already told.
Sales trending up 8.3% versus yesterday. Labor percentage running a point and a half below target. Delivery mix creeping up while dine-in slips. These aren't numbers to be interpreted, they're signals, color-coded and contextualized, that tell you in ten seconds what used to take ten minutes.
For a COO, that means walking into a leadership meeting with current operational reality already loaded, not a deck built from last week's export. It means spotting a check average problem across the portfolio before it shows up in the monthly P&L. It means spending the conversation on decisions instead of on alignment about what the numbers actually say.
The widgets don't replace strategic thinking. They give it a faster, cleaner on-ramp.
District and Regional managers live in motion. On any given day, they might visit two locations, take three calls with store managers, and respond to a dozen questions from above and below, often from a parking lot, a highway, or a booth in the back of one of their own restaurants.
The old workflow forced a choice: either carve out desk time to pull real performance data, or operate on gut feel and whatever a manager mentioned in passing.
Widget View changes that entirely.
Because widgets are automatically available in the Mirus Mobile App — no setup, no dashboard creation— a regional manager can pull up their region's performance right from their phone. Channel segments. Check averages. Period comparisons. The information travels with them. "I like the layout and organization of Widget View,” Capstone District Manager.
For a store-level manager, the promise of Widget View is the most immediate and the most personal.
Running a restaurant on a busy shift means being everywhere at once, the floor, the kitchen, the front counter, the door. The moment you have to leave that to go check a number in the office, you've taken yourself off the floor. And in a restaurant, that has a cost.
Widget View puts the data where the manager already is, right in the palm of their hand.
Before a lunch rush, a store manager can check their current check average and see exactly how it compares to yesterday, not because someone reported it up, but because it's sitting right there on their phone. During a slow dinner, they can look at channel mix and understand whether the traffic dip is across the board. After a shift, they can see the period comparison and know, with context, how the day actually went.
This isn't about turning store managers into analysts. It's about giving them the same informational footing that used to require either a manager with years of experience reading P&L reports, or a district manager looking over their shoulder.
The widget that tracks today's check average becomes a coaching tool. A store manager can look at that number mid-shift and adjust their team's behavior in real time, not in a Tuesday debrief.
The COO, the regional manager, and the store manager are asking different questions. But Widget View is built on the same underlying idea for all of them: data should come to you, not the other way around.
Green means things are running. Red means attention is needed. The context "up 12.7% versus last week," "down 0.3 versus yesterday" tells you not just where you are, but whether where you are is good.
That's not a reporting feature. That's operational clarity at scale.
Widget View launched because restaurant teams were spending time they didn't have translating data instead of acting on it. The goal from the beginning was to put something genuinely powerful in the hands of operators at every level, from the person running a single shift to the person overseeing a region to the person accountable for the whole portfolio.
Widget View transforms restaurant reporting into something intuitive, actionable, and built for real operational decision-making. This new feature was designed specifically for busy restaurant operators who need insights at a glance, not another spreadsheet to decode. "I like the quick access to the information we talk about most,” Capstone Market Leader.
With Widget View, users can:
This flexibility makes it easier for operators to stay connected to performance metrics throughout the day whether they’re in-store, traveling between locations, or reviewing results with leadership. Widgets are available to add to Dashboards and also in the Mirus Mobile App.
There are six standard widgets that are available at this time:
Operational Efficiency
Labor Cost Efficiency
Daily Sales Summary
Channel Segments
Each widget focuses on a different dimension of performance, covering everything from labor spend and check trends to channel breakdowns and period-over-period comparisons, giving operators the visibility they need to make informed decisions throughout the shift.
View real-time data for the current day, yesterday, same day last week or choose a specific date to view.
Filtering is available by store grain, allowing you to select specific stores or districts, to isolate the data you wish to view.
Stop Deciphering Reports. Start Running Smarter Restaurants.
We’re excited to bring Widget View to restaurant operators everywhere and can’t wait to see how teams use it to drive stronger operational performance.
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