/Power BI
Microsoft business intelligence for restaurant groups that want highly customisable dashboards across every data source.
Overview
Power BI is Microsoft's widely used data visualisation and business intelligence platform. Restaurant groups with in-house data capability or agency support can model POS, labour, finance, and delivery data into custom dashboards for finance, operations, and senior management reporting at a relatively low per-user cost.
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Pros
- Extremely flexible: can be built to report on any data source and any KPI
- Low per-user cost relative to specialist analytics platforms
- Part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, which many restaurant groups already use
- Excellent visualisation options and shareable dashboards
- Strong for finance, operations, and management reporting once configured
Cons
- Not restaurant-specific; hospitality templates and connections need to be built
- Requires a data modeller or technical agency before it delivers meaningful reporting
- Ongoing maintenance cost as menus, channels, and business structure change
- Can become a long-running IT project rather than a quick reporting win