F&B Labor Scheduling Robot Unveiled

Carnus Systems introduces the first artificial intelligence solution to provide seamless forecasting

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. October 14, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 9, 2007. Carnus Systems has introduced the AI SchedulerTM , the first technology to utilize advanced, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing to:

---|Automatically forecast daily and meal period cover demand for upcoming weeks

---|Calculate daily and meal period labor requirements for upcoming weeks

---|Optimize staff scheduling requirements

---|Generate complete weekly labor schedules for each F&B employee by the hour

The AI schedulerTM was developed to aid hotel operations by providing high forecasting accuracies between 80% - 90%, and automating labor scheduling. Together, these capabilities impact F&B operations by lowering labor costs and increasing profitability. Similar to a human brain, artificial intelligence continually learns from its environment and is capable of performing a variety of very complex forecasting and scheduling tasks within a few seconds thus alleviating hotel management from manually forecasting and scheduling multiple outlets which can take up to 12 hours per week of valuable management time.

Unlike managerial guesswork and capture ratios that often yield poor results and excessive labor costs the artificial intelligence technology at the heart of the AI SchedulerTM is truly a novel and innovative approach to forecasting and scheduling.

Features of the AI SchedulerTM include:

---|Takes employee seniority, preferred work times, vacations, and union regulations into account when generating schedules.

---|Create pre-set shift times

---|Specify work positions (i.e. Server, Runner, Cashier etc.) and recommend optimized labor standard

---|uitable for installation in F&B operations that have between 10 - 100,000 employees.

---|Completely automate the F&B scheduling process, generating forecasts and weekly schedules on-the-fly in seconds. No calculations necessary.

View bi-hourly forecasts of customer & departmental demand

View schedules online

According to Fred Hoffman, F&B Director of the 966-room Hyatt Regency in Jacksonville, FL, "Such technology would take human error out of scheduling, [a factor] that causes 90% of the problems we see. Each week when schedules are posted, conflicts occur due to employees mistakenly not receiving days off that they were entitled to, seniority issues, special requests, etc. This technology would prevent these conflicts from occurring."