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Local GastroCast is a free weekly email, delivered every Sunday at 4 pm. It pulls together the games, concerts, conferences, school breaks, and weather shaping the next four weeks on your block. Enough runway to run a campaign, adjust the schedule, and rework the order. Tailored to your address. No fluff. No upsell.

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The Local Brief · Mar 17 → Apr 13Sun 4:00 PM
A loud week in Brickell.

Four weeks ahead. Heat home stand, two conferences, Spring Break, and a heat advisory, all booked before Easter.

WK 1Heat home stand · 3 games▲▲▲dinner covers
WK 2M-DCPS Spring Break starts▲▲▲lunch covers
WK 3eMerge Americas · 16k att.▲▲all-day covers
WK 4Easter Sunday brunch▲▲▲brunch covers
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Inside the brief

Five signals that move your month.

We pull from the schedules and feeds you'd otherwise check yourself, four weeks out, then tell you what's relevant, what's not, and where to look. Time enough to run a promo, fix the schedule, and adjust the order.

01

Major sporting events

Home games, playoff runs, and college schedules within your trade area, with a sense of how loud the night gets and which way the foot traffic moves.

e.g. Heat vs. Celtics, Wed 7:30 · Kaseya Center · 1.2 mi away
02

Conferences & conventions

Citywide events that put expense accounts on the sidewalk. Attendance estimates, host venue, and the dayparts they actually affect.

e.g. eMerge Americas, Mon–Wed · ~16,000 attendees · Convention Center
03

Concerts & touring acts

Headliners at venues your guests actually go to, with door times and a read on whether it pulls or pushes diners pre-show.

e.g. Bad Bunny at Hard Rock Stadium · Sat doors 6:00
04

School breaks & holidays

K–12 spring break, university calendars, federal holidays, and the soft Tuesdays that follow long weekends. The stuff that quietly moves a Wednesday lunch one way or the other before you notice.

e.g. Miami-Dade Public Schools · Spring Break Mar 22–29
05

Weather anomalies

Heatwaves, cold snaps, named storms, and any forecast that breaks two standard deviations from your week-over-week normal. Patio nights, cancelled deliveries.

e.g. Heat advisory Thu–Sat · Highs 96°F · 11° above normal
The brief itself

One email. Four weeks ahead.

Lands Sunday at 4 pm. Reads in three minutes. Tells you what to staff, what to prep, what campaigns to launch, with enough runway to actually do it.

Inbox · Sun 4:02 PM
● Local GastroCastMAR 17 → APR 13

A loud month in Brickell.

Heat home stand, two conferences at the convention center, Spring Break, and Easter, all in the next four weeks. Three campaigns to launch, two soft Mondays to staff down, and a patio risk to watch.

▲▲▲ strong lift▲▲ moderate▲ mild— flat▼ dip risk
Four weeks, by signal
WK 1
Mar 17–23
Heat vs Celtics, Wed 7:30pm
pre-game 5–7pm
▲▲▲dinner covers
eMerge Americas (day 1–2)
▲▲all-day covers
Heat advisory · 96°F
patio risk
WK 2
Mar 24–30
M-DCPS Spring Break (full week)
family-of-four jump
▲▲▲lunch covers
Bad Bunny @ Hard Rock, Sat
12 mi · negligible
—low pull
WK 3
Mar 31–Apr 6
Heat vs Bucks, Tue 7:30pm
▲▲dinner covers
Soft Mon after holiday wknd
▼covers
WK 4
Apr 7–13
Easter Sunday brunch (Apr 13)
reservations open Mar 24
▲▲▲brunch covers
UM Spring break ends Apr 7
—baseline returns
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Coming Soon

From the brief to your forecast.

The same local signals (sports, conferences, school breaks, weather) applied to your POS history. Custom models per restaurant. Cover counts and revenue, fourteen days out, by daypart, with confidence bands.

  • 01Trained on your last 18+ months of POS data
  • 02Forecasts revenue and covers, by daypart
  • 03Local events folded in automatically, no spreadsheet edits
  • 04Confidence bands so you know when to trust the number

Subscribers to the weekly brief get first access. We're picking ~25 restaurants for the closed beta this fall.

Preview
Forecast · 14 daysBrickell · Mar 17–30
Fri Mar 21 · Dinner
142covers±9%
$11,840revenue
Best night
Fri 3/21
Slowest
Mon 3/17
MAPE
±6.2%
Things people ask

Seven honest answers.

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Sunday, 4 pm. Four weeks ahead.

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