Restaurants, retail & hospitality
Chairfirst governs the recurring comp, pricing, labor and inventory calls that move margin — and independently attests them. On the systems you already run. Nothing to rip out.
Your EBITDA, made provable
Illustrative — see your number, no signup.
~$1.0M
Provable value created
$120K annual EBITDA lift × 8.5× multiple = ~$1.0M in enterprise value — governed & attested.
Adjust to your portfolio. Numbers are illustrative.
How it works — 1 Surface the decision → 2 Route it to who may decide → 3 Coordinate & independently attest. That’s it.
Every comp, price exception, overtime approval and inventory call either protects margin or leaks it. Govern those decisions, attest them independently, and the lift multiplies into enterprise value at your own exit multiple.
The recurring calls your locations already make, surfaced, routed to whoever may decide, and coordinated the same way across every location.
A better decision, made faster and consistently, shows up as margin captured, waste avoided, comps reduced and labor held.
Multiply the annual lift by your exit multiple and you have the number a buyer, a lender or a franchisor actually prices.
Decision density is your lever. A 45-location restaurant portfolio makes thousands of consequential micro-decisions every week. No single knob moves margin — the aggregate of governed, attested calls does.
Your inputs
Seeded with editable benchmarks. Every one of them is yours to override.
Suggested range 6×–10×. Restaurant multiples vary by brand, concept type, lease quality and growth trajectory. Confirm the multiple your own advisors or recent comps support — this is the largest lever in the model.
Ambition — governed-decision lift
The value bridge
Enterprise value created
$1.2M
$146K annual EBITDA lift × 8.5×.
Annual EBITDA lift
$146K
Includes a coordination factor of 1.23× at 45 locations.
Portfolio EBITDA
$12M
On $99M of revenue.
Enterprise value
$101M
At the multiple you set.
At a 8.5× exit multiple, each $1 of governed annual EBITDA is worth $8.5 of enterprise value. That is why governing the recurring margin calls is an enterprise-value decision, not a line-item one.
Value at scale
As you grow, the same governed decision recurs across more locations and the coordination gap widens — which is why the modelled lift rises faster than the location count. This is how the governance layer is designed to compound; it is not a measured portfolio result.
Where the lift comes from
Named contributions, not an opaque weighting. Adjust the split with us against your own decision history.
Three-year cost of delay: $438K of EBITDA lift not captured — and the enterprise value it would have supported at your multiple.
Illustrative, from your inputs. Benchmarks are editable and the exit multiple is yours to set. No result is claimed beyond what an agreed measurement method supports.
Chairfirst does not add a decision layer to your week. It governs the decisions already being made across your locations — so they are consistent, authorized, fast, and attributable.
Governance is not a per-location cost that scales linearly with the portfolio. The value it creates is designed to grow faster than the portfolio does — the opposite of how most operating burden behaves.
The same governed decision type recurs at every location. Add locations and you multiply the decisions under governance, not just the revenue.
Ungoverned portfolios lose more to inconsistency the larger they get. Closing that gap is worth more at fifty locations than at five.
A decision pattern attested at one location is designed to be reused across the rest. This is design intent for the platform, not a delivered result.
The gap between the two lines is the coordination factor used in the calculator above — a stated modelling assumption (1 + 0.06·ln(locations), capped at 1.6), shown so you can challenge it. The shape is illustrative; the method is what we would agree with you.
A one-page PDF: the bridge, why it is hard to copy, how it compounds, and the honest frontier note. Every figure is illustrative and method-bound. The number on this page is never gated — only the download is.
Built from benchmark inputs and your exit multiple. Illustrative and method-bound.
Not another POS overlay and not another dashboard. Chairfirst governs the recurring financial and operating decisions themselves, at the point where value is kept or lost.
It sits alongside the POS, back-office and scheduling systems you already run, and your existing identity platform. Nothing to rip out, nothing to migrate.
Decisions are attested independently by Testari, an attestation company. Chairfirst governs; it does not certify itself. Buyers and lenders price attribution.
Authority is routed to whoever may decide, and nothing acts outside the authority it was given. Speed comes from removing the wait, not from removing the human.
A 60-day design-partner pilot — measured, attested, and yours to keep.