"I built an AI ops analyst for fast food restaurants, here’s how it works" from Reddit r/saas, ranked #6. By oscargallos, 1 score, 2 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
I built an AI ops analyst for fast food restaurants, here’s how it works
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- 6
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- r/saas
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- oscargallos
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- 1
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- 2
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- 3/29/2026, 11:48:35 PM
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- 3/30/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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I'm an Operating Partner for Whataburger. With 10 years in fast food experience. \*\*How Zairo works (full stack):\*\* 1. Operator forwards their daily POS report (XLS) to a dedicated email address 2. Cloudflare routes it to a Gmail inbox monitored by a Python daemon 3. The daemon picks it up within \~5 minutes, parses the XLS (xlrd), and extracts key metrics: net sales, labor %, cash variance, transactions, SPLH 4. It pulls local events (SerpAPI) and weather (wttr.in) for that store's market 5. All of that context gets passed to Claude (Anthropic) to generate a narrative analysis — not just what happened, but why it probably happened and what to do about it 6. A formatted PDF report (fpdf2) is generated and delivered back via SendGrid The whole thing runs on a $24/month DigitalOcean droplet. No dashboard, no app, no login. Just a PDF in your inbox before your first coffee. \--- \*\*Where it's at:\*\* \- Launched: \~3 weeks ago \- Stack: Python 3.11, Claude API (GPT-4o fall...