Tenzo, a London startup and graduate of Techstars, has built what looks like an interesting and timely platform to help restaurants (and potentially any brick ‘n’ mortar retailer) get real-time data insights on how they and their staff are performing.

So, for example, Tenzo can help a restaurant manager or owner to forecast demand, such as how many people to staff and when or how much food to order. The platform can also be used to understand which staff are performing best, in terms of up-selling or driving positive social media mentions, or simply to know which location is performing best or what menu item should be de-listed.

The idea is that this data is delivered in a timely and actionable manner, helped in part by Tenzo being mobile-first, but also in the way the platform plugs into and makes sense of other data sources and software a restaurant runs its business on top of, such as POS systems, scheduling…