How this works

These cards come from a rule engine that reads the menu data as of the selected date. A card appears only when its condition is true on that date — nothing carries over from another week.

Five checks run on every date:

• a quadrant move on the menu-engineering grid
• an item held in Dogs for four weeks or more
• a commodity index rising against the items exposed to it
• a margin that has fallen against its day-zero level
• a July reprice that has not recovered its margin

Severity reflects the rule and the size of the move, not a score. Warnings come first, then the rest by how recently each condition became true.

The recommended action

Each action is matched from a fixed library, keyed to the specifics of the alert — the quadrant move, the commodity, or the margin reading. The text is written and reviewed in advance, not produced by a model.