Lineup.ai
Lineup.ai provides restaurant sales, labor, and menu-item forecasting alongside automated scheduling.
What Lineup.ai is
Lineup.ai provides restaurant sales, labor, and menu-item forecasting alongside automated scheduling. Its sales forecasts draw on historical, weather, and local data to estimate demand by the hour. Labor forecasts guide staffing for each location and shift, helping managers plan around lower-sales periods. Scheduling can be generated automatically, built from templates, or created manually. Employees can use the mobile app to check schedules, submit availability, request time off, and swap shifts. Reporting dashboards show sales, labor demand compared with scheduled employees, and performance against labor targets. Restaurants can use sales forecasts without adopting the built-in scheduling features. Listed integrations include Snowflake, Olo, Brink POS, Clover, Square, Toast, OpenTable, Tock, 7shifts, and UKG. Lineup.ai says it is now part of the TimeForge suite of labor-management products. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available.
Good
- Forecasts can estimate sales by the hour.
- Managers can create schedules manually or automatically.
- Employees can swap shifts through the mobile app.
- Forecasting is available without built-in scheduling.
- No implementation fee is listed.
Watch out
- No free plan.
- Forecasts plus scheduling cost $149 a month per location.
Who it suits
Lineup.ai is aimed at multi-location restaurants, franchises, quick-service operations, restaurant groups, fast-casual businesses, and cafes. It may suit teams seeking forecasts with or without a scheduling tool.
Verdict
Lineup.ai combines restaurant demand forecasts, staffing guidance, scheduling, and reporting. Its forecasts-only option allows restaurants to use forecasting without switching to its scheduling product.
Plans and prices
From Lineup.ai's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Forecasts Only | $79 a month | unlimited users and employees · AI forecasts · custom labor budget · integrations · real-time dashboard · item-level forecasting · per location/month; annual commitment gets 10% discount |
| Forecasts + Scheduling | $149 a month | unlimited users and employees · AI forecasts · schedule builder · automated scheduling · templates · labor budget · employee mobile apps · integrations · dashboard · item forecasting · analytics · per location/month; annual commitment gets 10% discount |
The facts
Each one read from Lineup.ai's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accuracy claim
- The homepage claims forecasts are 35% more accurate than traditional forecasting methods.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Acquisition
- TimeForge announced on August 6, 2024 that Lineup.ai had become part of its product suite.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Reporting dashboards track store sales, labor demand versus scheduled employees, and performance against labor targets.checked 30 Sep 2026
- API and extensibility
- The terms define the service as including connectivity APIs and data integrations, but no separate public developer documentation or SDK is identified there.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Automated scheduling
- Managers can build schedules manually, from templates, by copying prior schedules or through automatic generation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data sales
- The privacy policy states that the company does not sell personal data.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Employee self-service
- Employees can view schedules, submit availability and time-off requests, release shifts and request shift swaps through the mobile app.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Forecast data inputs
- Forecast models use historical sales plus weather, events, traffic and holiday data, with a separate prediction model for each location.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Forecast-only use
- Customers do not need to use Lineup.ai’s built-in scheduling features to access its sales forecasts.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Implementation
- The FAQ says there is no implementation fee and that the company will get customers running at no additional cost.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integration operation
- POS and data systems provide continuous historical and real-time sales, employee-hour and channel data to the forecasting system.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The published integration directory lists Snowflake, Olo, Omnivore, Brink POS, Clover, Heartland, Square, Toast, Upserve, OpenTable, Tock, Tripleseat, 7shifts and UKG.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Labor forecasting
- Labor-demand forecasts help restaurants set staffing levels and labor-cost targets by shift and location.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License model
- The terms grant access to a hosted service and prohibit copying, reverse engineering, decompiling and deriving source code, indicating proprietary software.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: integration coverage
- RestaurantTools.ai says the native POS list is short and US-focused, citing missing Lightspeed, Revel and SpotOn unless routed through Omnivore.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: sparse independent evidence
- RestaurantTools.ai says public independent reviews were absent on G2, Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice as of July 2026, leaving mainly vendor-curated testimonials.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Menu-item forecasting
- Item-level forecasting is intended to guide preparation and purchasing and reduce waste.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company status
- The site says Lineup.ai is now part of the TimeForge suite of labor-management products.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Founded
- TimeForge's acquisition announcement says Lineup.ai was created in 2020.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Lubbock, Texas, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Lineup, LLC and operating status as active.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker size and headquarters
- Crunchbase lists Lineup.ai as a private Chicago, Illinois company with 11-50 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Employee app
- Employees can view schedules, submit availability, request time off, and swap shifts through the mobile app.checked 30 Sep 2026
Money
- Limit: price
- RestaurantTools.ai characterizes the $79-$149 per-location monthly range as expensive compared with lower-priced scheduling competitors.checked 15 Oct 2026
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