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Lineup.ai
Lubbock, Texas, United States
What it is
Lineup.ai provides restaurant sales, labor, and menu-item forecasting alongside scheduling tools. Its sales forecasts use historical, weather, and local data to estimate demand by the hour. Labor forecasts guide staffing by location and shift, while managers can generate schedules automatically, use templates, or build them manually. Employees can view schedules, submit availability, request time off, and swap shifts through the mobile app. Reporting dashboards show store sales, labor demand against scheduled employees, and performance against labor targets. Restaurants can use the forecasting features without adopting the built-in scheduling tools. Listed integrations include Snowflake, Olo, Omnivore, Brink POS, Clover, Heartland, Square, Toast, OpenTable, Tock, Tripleseat, 7shifts, and UKG. Forecasts Only costs $79 a month per location; Forecasts + Scheduling costs $149 a month per location. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available. The company says it is now part of the TimeForge suite of labor-management products.
For and against
For
- Sales forecasts estimate demand by the hour.
- Managers can build schedules manually or use automation.
- Employees can request time off and swap shifts in the app.
- Forecasting can be used without built-in scheduling.
Against
- No free plan is available.
- Forecasts Only costs $79 a month per location.
- Forecasts + Scheduling costs $149 a month per location.
The verdict
Lineup.ai combines restaurant forecasting, scheduling, and employee tools, with a forecasts-only option. A free trial is available, but there is no free plan and pricing is per location.
Who it suits
Lineup.ai suits restaurants that want sales and labor forecasts, with or without built-in scheduling. The maker lists multi-location restaurants, franchises, quick-service restaurants, restaurant groups, fast-casual businesses, and cafes among its customers.
Plans and prices
Forecasts Only
unlimited users and employees · AI forecasts · custom labor budget · integrations
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lineup.ai
Forecasts + Scheduling
unlimited users and employees · AI forecasts · schedule builder · automated scheduling
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lineup.ai
On the record
- Accuracy claim
- The homepage claims forecasts are 35% more accurate than traditional forecasting methods.lineup.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Acquisition
- TimeForge announced on August 6, 2024 that Lineup.ai had become part of its product suite.timeforge.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Reporting dashboards track store sales, labor demand versus scheduled employees, and performance against labor targets.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Automated scheduling
- Managers can build schedules manually, from templates, by copying prior schedules or through automatic generation.lineup.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company status
- The site says Lineup.ai is now part of the TimeForge suite of labor-management products.lineup.ai · read 30 Sep 2026
- Data sales
- The privacy policy states that the company does not sell personal data.lineup.ai · read 30 Sep 2026
- Employee app
- Employees can view schedules, submit availability, request time off, and swap shifts through the mobile app.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Forecast-only use
- Customers do not need to use Lineup.ai’s built-in scheduling features to access its sales forecasts.lineup.ai · read 30 Sep 2026
- Implementation
- The FAQ says there is no implementation fee and that the company will get customers running at no additional cost.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Labor forecasting
- Labor-demand forecasts help restaurants set staffing levels and labor-cost targets by shift and location.lineup.ai · read 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.lineup.ai · read 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.restauranttools.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: price
- RestaurantTools.ai characterizes the $79-$149 per-location monthly range as expensive compared with lower-priced scheduling competitors.restauranttools.ai · read 15 Oct 2026
