Restaurant operations system
Keep the restaurant operating standard out of the owner's head.
Clopen is a custom restaurant operations system for independent restaurants and small groups doing roughly $3–5 million in annual revenue. It turns the way your best operators run the house into clear workflows, useful internal tools, and a management rhythm the whole team can follow.
What gets built
A system shaped around the way your business actually works.
One operating layer for the work between systems
A POS records transactions. Accounting closes the books. Scheduling fills shifts. Clopen is built around the operational gaps between those tools: the handoffs, standards, checks, and decisions that usually live in texts, spreadsheets, binders, and memory.
- Daily lineups and shift priorities
- SOPs and role-based checklists
- Menu and beverage knowledge
- Cost and variance review routines
Make the house standard visible and repeatable
The goal is not more software for the team to ignore. We map the way the restaurant should run, identify where execution drifts, and build the smallest useful system that gives managers and staff a shared source of truth.
- Clear ownership for recurring work
- Faster manager handoffs
- Consistent training references
- Owner-level operational visibility
Custom built around the restaurant you already operate
Clopen is configured around your concept, existing tools, service model, team, and reporting needs. It can complement Restaurant365, a POS, accounting software, or a collection of lighter tools without forcing the operation into a generic template.
- Workflow and systems audit
- Custom internal tools
- Practical integrations
- Adoption and operating cadence
Implementation
A 90-day rollout with useful checkpoints before the finish line.
Day 30
Baseline and blueprint
Map current workflows, define operating benchmarks, and prioritize the highest-friction gaps.
Day 60
Working system
Put the first tools and workflows into daily use, then refine them with manager feedback.
Day 90
Operational rollout
Complete the rollout, document ownership, and establish the review rhythm that keeps the system useful.
Questions owners ask
Frequently asked questions
What is a restaurant operations system?
A restaurant operations system is the connected set of workflows, standards, internal tools, and management routines used to run the business consistently. Clopen focuses on the operational work that often falls between POS, accounting, scheduling, inventory, and communication tools.
Is Clopen a replacement for Restaurant365 or our POS?
Not necessarily. Clopen can work alongside Restaurant365, your POS, accounting platform, and other existing tools. The engagement starts by identifying what already works and where a custom operating layer can close gaps without creating unnecessary replacement work.
What size restaurant is the best fit?
Clopen is designed primarily for independent restaurants and small restaurant groups around $3–5 million in annual revenue that have outgrown informal processes but do not want a generic enterprise rollout.
How long does implementation take?
A typical rollout is structured over 90 days, with an operating baseline and blueprint by day 30, working systems in use by day 60, and a completed rollout with clear ownership by day 90.
Clopen by 2Stack
Start with the operational problem—not a software shopping list.
In a discovery call, we will map the current constraint, the tools already in place, and what a useful first 30-day benchmark should look like.
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