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Restaurant Profit
Restaurant profit is what remains after every cost is paid. Most independent restaurants run on 3–8% net margin, so profit is engineered, not hoped for.
Food Cost
Food cost is what your ingredients cost as a percentage of the sales they generate. Target 28–35% for most concepts, and control it weekly.
Labour Cost
Labour cost is total staffing cost as a percentage of sales. It is the most controllable line day-to-day, and the fastest place to protect or lose margin.
Prime Cost
Prime cost is food cost plus labour cost — the two biggest controllable expenses combined. It is the single most important number in restaurant finance.
Overtime Control
Overtime is usually a scheduling failure paid at a premium. Controlling it is one of the fastest ways to protect labour margin.
Staff Scheduling
Staff scheduling is the practice of matching your roster to forecasted demand so you have enough people at peak and no waste when it's quiet.
Restaurant SOP
A restaurant SOP is a documented, repeatable way of doing a task the same way every time — the foundation of consistency, training and scale.
Inventory Management
Inventory management is the discipline of knowing what stock you have, what you should have, and closing the gap — protecting both cash and food cost.
Recipe Costing
Recipe costing is calculating the exact cost of a dish from its ingredients, accounting for yield and waste — the foundation of pricing and food cost.
Menu Engineering
Menu engineering analyses each dish by popularity and profitability, then redesigns the menu to steer guests toward your best performers.
Reservation Management
Reservation management is how you capture, confirm and seat bookings to maximise covers while minimising no-shows and idle tables.
Google Review Management
Google reviews are the single biggest driver of local discovery and trust for restaurants. Managing them is a repeatable growth system, not luck.
CRM for Restaurants
Restaurant CRM captures guest data and uses it to bring guests back more often and spend more — the cheapest growth a restaurant can buy.
Staff Onboarding
Staff onboarding is the structured first weeks of a new hire. Done well it speeds productivity and dramatically cuts early turnover.
Kitchen Opening SOP
The kitchen opening SOP is the checklist that gets the kitchen safe, stocked and service-ready before the first ticket.
Kitchen Closing SOP
The kitchen closing SOP leaves the kitchen clean, safe, stocked and ready for the next opening — and protects food cost and compliance.
Waste Control
Waste control is measuring and reducing the food that never becomes revenue — one of the clearest paths to lower food cost.
Supplier Management
Supplier management is how you select, negotiate with and monitor vendors to protect cost, quality and continuity of supply.
AI for Restaurants
AI is moving from novelty to infrastructure in restaurants — forecasting demand, automating admin, and running agents for reservations, marketing and reporting.
Restaurant Operating System
A restaurant operating system connects profit, people, supply chain and guests into one intelligent layer — so the whole business runs on shared data.