Four findings of the kind we surface in the first 90 days, written the way we'd write them for a client: what moved, what it's worth per year, and what to do about it. Every figure on this page is an illustrative example, not a client result.
3.8% vs. 1.2% baseline
Annualized opportunity
$16,900
Comps looked normal in total. Broken out by manager and shift, one closing manager was comping at three times the house rate. Nothing was stolen. The authorization rules had simply never been written down.
Action: Review comp authorization and manager-level behavior.
$2.74 → $3.31 /lb Chicken, 14 weeks
Annual cost exposure
$3,960
xtraCHEF recorded every invoice correctly. Nobody had compared the current price to the contract price or asked whether the spec had changed. A second quote came in $0.41/lb lower.
Action: Review spec and rebid vendor pricing.
7 hours /week Tue–Thu, 2–4 pm
Annualized opportunity
$6,916
Sales per labor hour dropped sharply in the mid-afternoon on three weekdays. The schedule template had two closers arriving before the openers left. A one-line template change fixed it.
Action: Adjust recurring schedule overlap.
$8.56 vs. $15.94 Net on the same $28 order
Marketplace vs. direct
$7.38 /order
After commission, promotions, packaging, and processing, a marketplace order netted a little over half of a direct order. The marketplace is worth keeping for new customers. It is expensive for the regulars.
Action: Identify repeat marketplace customers and evaluate direct-order conversion.
The delivery finding, worked through. Same $28 order, two channels. The point is not to leave the marketplace. It's to know what each order costs and treat regulars differently from new customers.
At 40 marketplace orders a week from repeat customers, converting half of them to direct ordering is worth roughly $7,700 a year for this restaurant. That number goes on the scorecard as identified, and only becomes verified when the direct-order count actually rises.
Where the findings land. One page a month: what moved, what it's worth, the three things to do.
Profit Scorecard
Illustrative example · single location
This month's top priorities
Manager comps
annual opportunity
Labor overlap
annual opportunity
Vendor pricing
annual exposure
Twelve dashboards, one page. You read three lines and decide.
Every finding starts as an identified number. It only becomes verified when management acts and the improvement shows up in the P&L. We keep the four columns separate so nobody, including us, confuses a good idea with a result.
Identified
$147,420
Opportunities found and quantified
Approved
$118,600
Management agreed to act
Implemented run-rate
$81,200
Changes in place, annualized
Verified profit created
$39,842
Measured in the P&L after the change
Illustrative scoreboard. Figures shown to explain the method, not to represent any client's results.
Your restaurant already produces the data behind findings like these. A Profit Review is thirty minutes on what yours might say.