Fourth

Fourth brings AI-powered workforce, inventory and analytics to restaurants and hospitality, uniting people and supply data.

Overview

Fourth combines HR and workforce management with inventory and supply chain analytics for hospitality. Its platform covers scheduling, payroll, hiring and training alongside purchasing, inventory and food cost — with AI forecasting tying labor and stock to expected demand.

Serving restaurant groups, hotels and contract caterers internationally, Fourth targets the two biggest cost lines in hospitality — people and product. Predictive analytics help managers schedule to demand and buy to forecast, protecting margins in a low-margin business.

Hospitality’s two largest cost lines — people and product — are usually managed in separate systems that cannot see each other. Fourth connects them: workforce scheduling and payroll alongside purchasing, inventory and food cost, with AI forecasting that ties both to expected demand. Managers schedule to forecast rather than habit, and purchasing decisions reflect projected covers instead of last week’s. International operations benefit from compliance support across markets. For restaurant groups, hotels and caterers running on thin margins, the ability to optimize labor and supply together is where operational profit actually lives. The analytics layer turns the combined data into benchmarking and action.

Because workforce and supply data live together, managers can test the operational consequences of schedule and purchasing changes before making them, which is where hospitality margin is actually protected.

Platforms in this category win on breadth and integration: they consolidate fragmented operations onto a shared data foundation, then apply AI where it reduces cycle time and cost without forcing organizations to rebuild everything around the software.

Key Features

• Workforce management: scheduling, payroll and hiring
• Inventory, purchasing and food cost management
• AI demand forecasting connecting labor and supply
• Hospitality-specific analytics and benchmarking
• International compliance and multi-site support
• Employee experience tools for frontline teams

Pricing

Fourth is licensed through enterprise agreements scoped to sites and modules.

Who Is It For

Restaurant groups, hotels and caterers managing workforce and supply costs at scale. Also fits HR and finance leaders jointly accountable for labor cost and workforce planning, and to hospitality groups operating across multiple markets and compliance regimes.

FAQ

Is Fourth free to use?

No self-serve tier; the company engages enterprise customers directly.

Does Fourth offer an API?

Fourth integrates with POS, payroll and supply systems through connectors and APIs.

How does Fourth compare to alternatives?

Compared with standalone HR or inventory tools, Fourth unifies people and product data, trading point-solution depth for connected forecasting.