Nesto, a German workforce management company, just raised $12 million to bring AI-driven scheduling and demand forecasting to restaurants. They’re deployed across 3,000+ locations with 100,000 daily users. They report 80% less time spent on planning, productivity gains over 10%, and forecast accuracy approaching 90%. Those are real numbers. And they prove something restaurant owners have known in their gut for years: the way most restaurants handle scheduling and staffing is broken. But here’s t