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Know what's walking past
your front door this month.

Local GastroCast is a free weekly email — every Sunday at 4 pm — that pulls together the games, concerts, conferences, school breaks, and weather shaping the next four weeks on your block. Enough runway to run a campaign, adjust the schedule, and rework the order. Tailored to your address. No fluff. No upsell.

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The Local Brief · Mar 17 → Apr 13Sun 4:00 PM
A loud week in Brickell.

Four weeks ahead. Heat home stand, two conferences, Spring Break, and a heat advisory — all booked before Easter.

WK 1Heat home stand · 3 games▲▲▲covers
WK 2M-DCPS Spring Break starts▲▲▲lunch
WK 3eMerge Americas · 16k att.▲▲lunch+dinner
WK 4Easter Sunday brunch▲▲▲covers
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Inside the brief

Five signals that move your month.

We pull from the schedules and feeds you'd otherwise check yourself — across the next four weeks — then we tell you what's relevant, what's not, and where to look. Time enough to run a promo, fix the schedule, and adjust the order.

01

Major sporting events

Home games, playoff runs, and college schedules within your trade area — with a sense of how loud the night gets and which way the foot traffic moves.

e.g. Heat vs. Celtics, Wed 7:30 · Kaseya Center · 1.2 mi away
02

Conferences & conventions

Citywide events that put expense accounts on the sidewalk. Attendance estimates, host venue, and the dayparts they actually affect.

e.g. eMerge Americas, Mon–Wed · ~16,000 attendees · Convention Center
03

Concerts & touring acts

Headliners at venues your guests actually go to, with door times and a read on whether it pulls or pushes diners pre-show.

e.g. Bad Bunny at Hard Rock Stadium · Sat doors 6:00
04

School breaks & holidays

K–12 spring break, university calendars, federal holidays, and the soft Tuesdays that follow long weekends. The stuff that quietly moves a Wednesday lunch one way or the other before you notice.

e.g. Miami-Dade Public Schools · Spring Break Mar 22–29
05

Weather anomalies

Heatwaves, cold snaps, named storms, and any forecast that breaks two standard deviations from your week-over-week normal. Patio nights, cancelled deliveries.

e.g. Heat advisory Thu–Sat · Highs 96°F · 11° above normal
The brief itself

One email. Four weeks ahead.

Lands Sunday at 4 pm. Reads in three minutes. Tells you what to staff, what to prep, what campaigns to launch — with enough runway to actually do it.

Inbox · Sun 4:02 PM
● Local GastroCastMAR 17 → APR 13

A loud month in Brickell.

Heat home stand, two conferences at the convention center, Spring Break, and Easter — all in the next four weeks. Three campaigns to launch, two soft Mondays to staff down, and a patio risk to watch.

▲▲▲ strong lift▲▲ moderate▲ mild— flat▼ dip risk
Four weeks, by signal
WK 1
Mar 17–23
Heat vs Celtics, Wed 7:30pm
pre-game 5–7pm
▲▲▲covers
eMerge Americas (day 1–2)
▲▲lunch + dinner
Heat advisory · 96°F
patio risk
WK 2
Mar 24–30
M-DCPS Spring Break (full week)
family-of-four jump
▲▲▲lunch traffic
Bad Bunny @ Hard Rock, Sat
12 mi · negligible
—low pull
WK 3
Mar 31–Apr 6
Heat vs Bucks, Tue 7:30pm
▲▲covers
Soft Mon after holiday wknd
▼covers
WK 4
Apr 7–13
Easter Sunday brunch (Apr 13)
reservations open Mar 24
▲▲▲covers
UM Spring break ends Apr 7
—baseline returns
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Coming Soon

From the brief to your forecast.

The same local signals — sports, conferences, school breaks, weather — applied to your POS history. Custom models per restaurant. Cover counts and revenue, fourteen days out, by daypart, with confidence bands.

  • 01Trained on your last 18+ months of POS data
  • 02Forecasts revenue and covers, by daypart
  • 03Local events folded in automatically — no spreadsheet edits
  • 04Confidence bands so you know when to trust the number

Subscribers to the weekly brief get first access. We're picking ~25 restaurants for the closed beta this fall.

Preview
Forecast · 14 daysBrickell · Mar 17–30
Fri Mar 21 · Dinner
142covers±9%
$11,840revenue
Best night
Fri 3/21
Slowest
Mon 3/17
MAPE
±6.2%
Things people ask

Seven honest answers.

Yes. The weekly brief is a free service. We send one email a week with the next four weeks of local events. We don't sell your address, and we don't pad it with ads. The plan: build something useful, earn the right to talk to you about the forecasting product when it ships.

Sunday, 4 pm. Four weeks ahead.

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