The Restaurant Money Checklist
41 things every well-run restaurant keeps on top of. If you’re not doing these, you’re leaving money on the table.
0 / 41 ticked41 leaks to fix
1Labour
Usually your biggest cost after food. Most of it leaks in the gaps between the rota and the clock.
2Food & drink costs
Every point of GP you lose comes straight off the bottom line.
3Sales
You can’t tell if a day was good without knowing what it was meant to be.
4Compliance
The fines, closures and bad scores nobody puts in the budget.
1 point of labour
£10,400
a year, on £20,000 of sales a week.
2 points of food GP
£12,480
a year, on £12,000 of food sales a week.
Or let the app do the checking.
Yes Chef runs the whole house, so half this list ticks itself.
- The rota costed as you build it, with labour % against your target
- One timesheet per shift, set against the rota, approved in a tap
- Holiday that builds up as people work
- Every check on the phone, flagged on the day it’s late
- Records ready to hand the inspector
- Waste logged in a tap
- Every day’s sales against its target
- Repairs booked, chased and reminded