Reporting and automation for restaurant groups
Sales are up. Are your restaurants keeping more?
Examples of what we could build for a restaurant group.
Talk through what you needMore sales do not answer every cost question.
Start with the question your current view leaves open:
- Which locations grew sales but kept less after labor and other costs?
- What do delivery orders contribute after recorded fees, discounts and refunds?
- Which reports does the office rebuild from exports every week?
- Why do the manager's weekly numbers differ from what lands in payroll and accounting?
Different dates, location codes and cost definitions can make two reasonable reports disagree. We can build the checks that show where the difference comes from and what still needs someone to resolve it.
The answer depends on the records available. A channel comparison may need settlement details. A food-cost question may need purchasing and inventory records, with timing treated consistently.
Give the weekly location review a repeatable process.
A possible first build combines agreed sales and cost measures by location and period. It shows the source dates, highlights missing inputs and gives the team a view of changes to review. A follow-up queue can keep the questions with the people who need to resolve them.
Before the build, we agree how to judge the result: which manual steps it should remove, which records it should cover, how often it needs to refresh and what your team will check before relying on it.
The source assessment may cover point of sale, payroll, scheduling, purchasing, inventory, delivery settlements and accounting. We start with the records needed for the first question.
Start with the gaps in the tools you already use.
Your restaurant software may already cover sales, labor or inventory well. The useful work could be a missing connection, a consistent group definition or a process that still needs a spreadsheet handoff. We scope that gap before proposing a new build.
Questions from restaurant operators
Can we compare delivery with other sales channels?
If the available records support it, we can build a comparison using agreed revenue and cost definitions. Fees, discounts, refunds and other included costs need a consistent treatment. The scope should be clear about costs the data cannot capture.
Do we have to replace our point-of-sale system?
We begin with the systems you already use and assess source access. A useful first build may connect their information to the rest of the business without changing the operating tool.