Resources

The things we'd tell you over a coffee.

No gated PDFs and no "download the ebook". The arithmetic, the thresholds, and the scripts that make a difference in an independent restaurant.

• Cost control6 min read

  How to catch a vendor price increase before it costs you a year

  Price creep rarely arrives as a letter. It arrives as a 4% bump on one line of a 40-line invoice. Here is the arithmetic that makes it visible, and the email that fixes it.

• Benchmarks5 min read

  Prime cost, explained without the accounting

  Prime cost is the one number that tells you whether a restaurant works. What it includes, what a healthy figure looks like, and why weekly beats monthly.

• Menu6 min read

  Menu engineering without the jargon

  Popularity against contribution margin gives you four groups of dishes and four different decisions. Here is what to actually do with each.

• Operations7 min read

  From a shoebox of invoices to a P&L you'd act on

  The minimum data set that produces a real operating P&L for an independent restaurant, and the order to build it in.