© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 1 Manage Sales Forecasts Quick Start Guide Document Details Document #: 160_SFQS_260925 Release Version: 20.26.09.17 or higher Version Release Date: September 2026 Related User Group Permissions % Screen Name Control Name Description ID #s 85 NC-Administrative Options Sales Forecasting Enables Manage Sales Forecasts on the Sales menu. [144][351] 83 NC-Sales Forecasting Copy Allows users to save and copy a sales forecast to other periods. [173][352] 85 NC-Sales Forecasting Update, Save Allows users to make and save changes to sales forecasts. [173][354] N/A NC-Sales Forecasting – Incremental Sales Forecast Edit/Save Enables the Clock icon in the Sales Forecast detail screen; this opens a pop-up in which users can edit or save Sales Forecast in 15-minute or hourly increments. [283][422] Download the latest version of this document here: https://links.crunchtime.com/NCQS-ManageSalesForecasts … or scan the QR code to the left. Watch the video tutorial: NCS 101 - Sales Forecasting

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 2 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Introduction Overview The Sales Forecast module will allow authorized users to enter forecast data for Sales, Guests, and Checks for each week throughout the year. Forecasted values can be entered for each day within a week and copied to future weeks. When entering forecast values for a particular week, the application will provide various data points to assist in making informed forecast decisions, such as budgeted sales values, projected forecasts, and actual data from the previous week. If the Dayparts and Revenue Centers have been defined in Enterprise Manager, the application will also allow users to set up forecasted sales by daypart for each revenue center. The application will distribute the total forecast data by daypart form the detail screen among the revenue cente rs based on the percentage of historical sales (during each daypart) of all recipes sold at each revenue center. Why do Sales Forecasting? It’s a Wednesday night. You’re planning for next Monday, which happens to be your slowest day of the week. You’re running a new promotion: half off an order of fries. The bar across the street is showing the playoff game. The restaurant next door is closed due to a burst pipe. The weatherman says to expect snow. Monday is not going to be a normal Monday. How much inventory should you purchase? How many people should you staff? Accurate forecasts will answer these questions, helping to eliminate waste and control payroll. Entering a Sales Forecast for each week will allow Net-Chef to: • Calculate Suggested Order when creating purchase orders • Calculate Suggested Prep when entering Daily Prep • Calculate Ideal Hours when creating schedules. (Continued) Note: Sales Forecast can be created automatically by enabling the Auto -Generate Sales Forecast setting in Enterprise Manager. This setting will use the selected “Default Based On” setting as the forecast data. The “Dashboard Task ___ days before week begin date” setting determines when the forecast will be generated.

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 3 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Introduction (Continued) Getting Started 1. Select the Week Ending date hyperlink to open that week’s forecast. (Continued) 1 Tip: Check Include Guest Counts and/or Include Check Counts to include the Guest and Check count information on the Sales Forecast summary screen. Note: Check data will only be visible and configurable when the location has the “Display check count data” preference enabled in Enterprise Manager. A Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts 1 A

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 4 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Introduction (Continued) Screen Overview • Total Forecasted Sales, Total Forecasted Guests, and Total Forecasted Checks are the values used by the system to calculate expected demand for the selected week. These fields will be pre- populated based on the “Default based on” setting for each Location in Enterprise Manager. • The Historical and Projected Data section provides previous forecasts, historical sales, and calculated forecast data to help you make informed decisions when planning for the week. The name of metric that is currently being used to populate the forecast will appear in blue text. • These precentages d istribute the total Budgeted Sales for the week and are maintained by the “Projected Sales %” setting in Enterprise Manager. If this setting is not configured , 100% of the budget will be applied to the first day of the week. (Continued) A B C Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts {Select Week} A C B Note: Daily forecast values will be automatically set to ‘0’ for Scheduled Closed days, as defined in Enterprise Manager. Tip: A **** placeholder is displayed when no data is available for a particular value and date. When the calculated or entered value is “zero”, the number ‘0.00’ will be displayed.

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 5 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Introduction (Continued) Screen Overview (Continued) • Dates in blue can be selected to display holidays and promotions set for this date by your corporate team. • Historical sales in blue can be selected to display any notes left by the manager on that past date. Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts > {Select Week} E D D E

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 6 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Update Forecast Apply Historical or Projected Forecast 1. Select the (auto-fill) button to use a historical or projected forecast. The forecast label will appear in blue text after it has been selected. 2. The data from the selected forecast will be moved up to the Total Forecasted Sales, Guests, and Checks fields. These values can then be edited as needed. For each metric, Guest and Check data can be previewed by selecting the (>) expander control to the left of the forecast title. (Continued) 1 2 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts {Select Week} 1 2 2 Tip: The AI Forecast uses Crunchtime’s custom -built machine learning algorithm to calculate forecasts for 30 days forward from the current date ; it is tailored to your specific operation and location and automatically selects the most relevant data points to ensure maximum accuracy .

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 7 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Update Forecast (Continued) Scale Forecast Values Scaling your forecast values allows you to account for sales trends quickly and accurately. Here’s how: 1. Check the box in the header of one or more columns to select the dates you would like to scale (or check the box in the Week Ending column to select all). 2. Update the percentage field with the forecast trend. To forecast a 5% increase in sales, enter 105% (as shown above); to forecast a 5% decrease in sales, enter 95%. 3. Select Scale Values By to apply the percentage to the Total Forecasted Sales, Guests, and Checks. (Continued) 2 Note: Selecting Scale Values By applies the entered percentage to the Total Forecasted values one time. This percentage will not be automatically applied to any additional changes made to the forecast. For example, if a new forecast is selected from the Historical and Projected Data sec tion, the scale percentage will not be applied automatically. Simply select the Scale Values By button again if you wish to reapply the scaling percentage. 1 3 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts {Select Week} 1 2 3

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 8 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Update Forecast (Continued) Forecasts by Daypart Managers can view or update forecasted sales for each Daypart, allowing for a more accurate forecast. Note: There must be at least one Daypart configured in Enterprise Manager to use this functionality. 1. Select the Daypart Forecast > expander control to view this section. 2. Any change to the day -level Forecasted Sales/Guest/Checks will automatically be recalculated and redistributed across the Dayparts. You can also choose to update these values manually. (Continued) 2 1 Tip: The Total Forecasted data should be equal to the total Daypart forecast. Any difference between these values will appear in red text in the Forecasted Sales by Daypart row. This will typically occur due to rounding discrepancies. Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts {Select Week} 1 2 2

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 9 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Update Forecast (Continued) Forecasts by Daypart and Revenue Center • Select the Edit button in the Daypart Forecast row to view or enter a forecast for each Revenue Center by Daypart. Any change to a Daypart's forecast will automatically be recalculated and redistributed across Revenue Centers. You can also choose to scale these values or update them manually. (Continued) Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts > {Select Week} A A Alert: After saving the Revenue Center forecasts, the Daypart forecast fields can no longer be edited on the main Sales Forecast screen. Any further edits must be done inside the Forecast by Daypart and Revenue Center windows for each weekday.

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 10 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Update Forecast (Continued) Incremental Forecast 1. Select the Clock icon. 2. Select the Day for the forecasts to be entered. 3. Choose whether Forecasted By should be set to ‘Sales’, ‘Guests’, or ‘Checks’. 4. Enter/Edit the incremental forecast value for each Begin Time / Revenue Center combination. 5. Select Refresh Totals to update the displayed Hourly and Period totals, then select the Disk (Save) icon to save your changes. 6. After exiting this screen, the Incremental Data box for the selected day(s) will be checked in the detail screen. Once forecast values have been saved at the 15 -minute or hourly level for a day/date, edits for that day can only be made and saved from the incremental forecast screen unless the user unchecks that box. (Continued) Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts > {Select Week} 1 Notes: Incremental Forecasts will only be saved for times that fall within the location’s Hours of Operation, as defined in Enterprise Manager. Forecast values will be automatically set to ‘0’ for Scheduled Closed days. Alert: When the Incremental Data box is unchecked, the 15-minute/hourly level data will be updated using the default distribution based on historical sales, overriding all manually entered incremental data for that date. 1 6 3 2 4 5 2 3 4 5 6

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 11 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Save Forecast Save or Save and Copy • Select the Disk (Save) icon to save your changes. OR • Select the Save and Copy icon to save your changes for the current week and apply to future weeks. 1. Check the box in the Copy Forecast column for each week that should receive this forecast (check the box in the column header to select all future weeks). 2. Optionally, check Retain copied Forecast data when selected weeks are open for review. • Checked – The copied forecast values will carry over when the selected weeks are open for review. These values will not be recaluclated. • Not Checked – The copied forecast values will be used when calculating projected consumption values, however the forecast values will not be saved when the week is opened for review. The values will be recalculated based on the location’s “Sales Forecasting Based on” preference setting. 3. Select Copy and Close. Once the forecast is saved, it was will be marked as reviewed on the Sales Forecast summary screen. Forecasts can still be edited after being reviewed. A Alert: When the “Retain copied Forecast data when selected weeks are opened for review ” box is NOT checked, the Sales Forecast Summary screen will display the copied forecast values, but these values will be recalculated when the week is opened for review. B 1 2 3 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts > {Select Week} B A 2 3 1

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 12 QUICKSTART GUIDE Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Local Events (for AI Forecast) Create a Local Event The Local Events calendar captures events like local holidays, school breaks, community events, concerts, sporting events, festivals, and other market -level factors that can impact your sales forecasts. Capturing these events will increase the accuracy of the AI Forecast by ensuring that these demand drivers are factored into the forecasts for Sales, Guests, and Checks at your location. 1. From the Sales Forecast summary screen, select Local Events. 2. To create a new entry, click + Add Event. (Continued) 1 2 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts 1 2

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 13 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Local Events (Continued) Create a Local Event (Continued) 3. In the event panel, enter the Event Name. 4. Click the Create {Event Name} event button. Additional detail fields will be displayed. 5. Select the Category to classify the event. Options include : 'Community Event', 'Concert', 'Holiday', 'School Event', 'Sporting Event', or 'Other'. 6. Select the Date for the event (defaults to the current date). If applicable, check the All Day box. 7. Otherwise select the From & To times for the event. 8. If the event spans multiple days or repeats on other dates, select Add more dates. a. Use the pop-up calendar to select another date to add for this event. b. Repeat as needed to add each additional date (they can only be added 1 at a time). 9. When finished, click Save. (Continued) 3 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts > Local Events >  Add Event 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8

© 2026 Crunchtime - All Rights Reserved | www.crunchtime.com | 14 Net-Chef Manage Sales Forecasts Local Events (Continued) View Event Details 1. In the Sales Forecast details screen, dates that have an event will show an icon with a number indicating how many events occur on that day. 2. Click the  icon to the right of the date header. 3. From the menu, select Day Details. • The event panel will open, showing the event details for that day. • It will also show Preivous Occurences of that event, if any. 4. To collapse the panel, click the X (Close) icon. 1 2 3 Net-Chef > Sales: Manage Sales Forecasts {Select Week} 3 1 2 4 A B 4 A B