Margin was leaking and the P&L couldn't explain it. Sales were fine; food cost wasn't. Nothing in the numbers pointed anywhere.
VisionIQ watched the prep and disposal on the line off the cameras already in the kitchen and flagged waste running roughly 3× the weekday norm — usable product going in the bin untouched at close, the kind of loss no sales report can see because nothing was ever sold.
The line check changed the next morning. The tell was simple: lots of waste, zero sale behind it — a process problem, not a volume one.
How we measured it
VisionIQ measures prep and disposal events off the existing kitchen cameras. Usable product binned with no sale behind it is waste, not volume.