Lightspeed Restaurant is a capable POS for full-service restaurant operators. Marty is the cash recovery layer that turns Lightspeed's data into recovered dollars — delivered before your next service.
Lightspeed Restaurant is a well-built POS platform for full-service restaurants. It handles table management, floor plan design, menu management, advanced reporting, menu engineering analytics, and online ordering — with solid integration capabilities.
The reporting depth is a genuine strength: Lightspeed gives operators visibility into sales trends, labor percentages, and menu performance that most basic POS systems don't match.
Lightspeed reports on what happened. It doesn't run an overnight analysis and deliver a specific recovery list. It doesn't guarantee 8x your fee in recoverable cash. It doesn't tell Location 11's GM that yesterday's lunch crew ran $620 over optimal labor.
The advanced reporting shows you labor as a percentage of revenue. It doesn't show you that the overage came from 3 servers over optimal on a 68-cover dinner, a beef supplier overbilling for 3 weeks, and one server running $198 in uncomped items.
The difference between good analytics and cash recovery is "here's what happened" vs "here's $1,680 you can get back this week — here's exactly how."
| Feature | Lightspeed | Marty |
|---|---|---|
| POS / Table Management | ✓ Core strength | ✗ Not our focus |
| Advanced Reporting | ✓ Yes | Complementary |
| Menu Engineering | ✓ Yes | ✗ Not our focus |
| Online Ordering | ✓ Yes | ✗ Not our focus |
| Cash Recovery Guarantee | ✗ None | ✓ 8x or pay nothing |
| Morning Deposit (6 AM) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — exact dollars |
| Labor Leak Detection | ✗ Reports only | ✓ Overstaffing + OT + drift |
| Void & Comp Fraud | ✓ Basic | ✓ Pattern detection + $ |
| Time to First Insight | Days (reporting lag) | 48 hours |
Location 11 — Harbor: $1,680 recoverable
Lightspeed shows declining labor efficiency in the weekly report. Marty shows you exactly which dollars to recover before next week's report.
Lightspeed is your POS and reporting layer. Marty is your cash recovery system. Lightspeed gives you operational visibility, Marty gives you specific dollars to recover.
Keep Lightspeed for table management and analytics. Add Marty for the 6 AM recovery email that turns Lightspeed's data into action items with dollar amounts before each service.
Free 48-hour analysis on 3-5 of your locations. Works with Toast, Square, Clover, Aloha, and every other major POS.
90-minute setup. No contract. No risk.
Marty integrates with Toast, Square, Clover, QuickBooks, R365, and Xero. Read-only connection. Average payback: 3.2 days.