The restaurant business is hard. We're here to make a few parts easier.
Twenty years of running restaurants taught us where the real friction lives. Now we're building the tools, products, and partnerships to fix it. Five arms of one company, all pointed at making the work better for the people who do it.
Five things. One reason.
Each arm of 86x solves a different part of the same problem: the restaurant business deserves better tools, smarter partners, and people who've done the work.
AI tools for the unglamorous parts of the job.
02 / Management86X ManagementSkin in the game.
03 / Advisors86X AdvisorsTwenty years of operator experience, on call.
04 / Manufacturing86X ManufacturingReal products. Real kitchens.
05 / Community86X CommunityA room full of people who get it.
We've been on the franchisee side. We've been on the franchisor side. We've worked Friday rushes, fought through DOL audits, hired and lost and rehired the same shift leads, watched margins disappear into problems nobody had built software to fix yet. We know what this industry actually feels like from the inside.
That experience is what 86x is built on. Every product we ship gets stress-tested against a simple question: would the operator we used to be actually use this? If the answer is no, we don't ship it. If the answer is yes, we keep building until it's better.
The technology side of what we do is new. The understanding of the work is not.
Boards Live
The compliance posters every restaurant is required to display, made better.
Guests can't see your kitchen. They can see the wall of faded printouts by the host stand — and they're drawing conclusions either way. Don't leave a mess in plain sight. Fix it in minutes.
Visit ComplianceBoards.com → (opens in new tab)When we were operators, the most valuable thing we had wasn't software — it was other operators. Calls at midnight, texts after a bad shift, honest answers from people who'd been through it.
86X Community is the version of that we wished existed: a place for restaurant professionals to talk to each other without vendors in the room. Free to join. A premium tier for operators who want more.