Blog
Guides for GMs and operators
How connected back-of-house workflows work in practice — rollout, compliance, scheduling, and inventory.
- Pricing
- Evaluation
How to choose per-location pricing for your restaurant group
Per-location BOH software is easy to quote — harder to get right. A practical framing for owners comparing tiers before your first paid contract.
- AI
- Platform
Luminix insights — rule-based exceptions today, ML later
Cross-module exceptions already land in the GM action queue. What is live today is rule-based; machine-learning recommendations are roadmap — not a live AI product.
- Daily ops
- Multi-location
Daily ops handoffs that survive manager turnover
Opening checklists and logbook notes trapped in group chats do not scale. Business-date ops records connect to maintenance, compliance, and the next shift.
- Multi-location
- Portal
Multi-location exception roll-up for owners and ops directors
GMs need their store. Owners need every store. How location-scoped permissions and a shared portal queue scale from three locations to twenty.
- HR
- Onboarding
Onboarding new hires without duplicate data entry
Invite, certifications, training checklists, and first shift should flow from one people record — not four forms re-keyed by HR and the GM.
- HR
- Scheduling
- Compliance
HR certifications and scheduling — stop finding out on the floor
Food-handler and role-required certs belong on the employee record scheduling already uses. How Luminix blocks publish conflicts before they become service issues.
- Inventory
- Vendors
From below par to purchase order — inventory and vendors in one flow
When counts and purchasing use different catalogs, GMs chase numbers. How connected inventory and vendor modules keep par, POs, and receipts aligned.
- Daily ops
- Portal
The GM daily action queue — one place before the pre-shift
Certs, par levels, open shifts, and invoices should not live in five inboxes. How Luminix portal gives GMs a single queue filtered by location.
- Evaluation
- Platform
Why connected BOH beats a patchwork of point tools
General managers lose hours re-entering the same people, counts, and schedules across disconnected apps. Here is how one connected platform changes the daily rhythm.
- Evaluation
- Demo
Evaluating back-of-house software — questions for your demo
A structured checklist for owners, operating partners, and GMs evaluating Luminix — all eleven modules, rollout, integrations, and security.
- Scheduling
- HR
Scheduling and labor rules without spreadsheet chaos
How restaurant groups replace spreadsheet schedules with publish workflows, conflict checks, and availability tied to the same people data HR uses.
- Compliance
- Food safety
Compliance and audit readiness in one platform
Food safety logs, corrective actions, vendor contracts, HR documents, and maintenance records — connected under one tenant for audit-ready back-of-house.
- Rollout
- Multi-location
Multi-location rollout — provisioning, training, and cutover
How restaurant groups move from signed agreement to stable production across multiple locations — with role-based training and phased module adoption.
- Integrations
- Platform
Integrations overview — Toast, QuickBooks, email, and webhooks
How Luminix connects to POS, accounting, email, and webhooks — while scheduling, HR, inventory, compliance, and daily execution share one tenant.
- Evaluation
- Platform
Why restaurant-specific software beats generic ops tools
Generic business platforms adapt to restaurants. Luminix is built for back-of-house from the data model up — eleven modules that work together under one tenant.
- Rollout
- Multi-location
Go-live checklist for multi-unit groups
A structured provisioning, training, and cutover sequence for restaurant groups rolling out Luminix across multiple locations.
- Demo
- Evaluation
What to expect in a Luminix demo
How we structure a demo session — who should attend, what we cover across eleven modules, and how we scope provisioning and go-live for your group.