Our story
Yara Data was created to solve that problem.
After more than a decade working inside the restaurant industry as Director of IT, particularly in pizza and restaurant technology, our founder saw the same challenge again and again: brands did not lack data; they lacked visibility. Important information was sitting inside POS systems, third-party platforms, review sites, reports, and vendor tools, but bringing it together was expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to use in everyday decision-making.
When his daughter, Yara, was born, a rare break from the day-to-day created the space to finally build the solution he had wanted for years. On January 1, 2026, Yara Data began with a simple idea: restaurant operators should be able to see the full picture of their business without spending hours collecting, combining, and interpreting information.
We think of it as turning on the lights. The data was already there. Yara Data makes it visible, understandable, and useful.
Today, Yara Data is being built as an intelligence platform for restaurant brands - bringing fragmented information together, identifying what matters, surfacing opportunities and problems, and helping operators make faster, more confident decisions that improve sales and profitability.
Our goal is not to replace the restaurant operator. It is to give every operator a trusted intelligence partner that understands the business, saves time, and helps turn information into action.