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What changed, and what needs you

Restaurant business intelligence on one home screen

The Owner Cockpit is the first screen an owner sees. It shows what moved since the last period, and names the few things that need a person today.

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The short answer Restaurant business intelligence is only useful if it says what changed. CountStand’s Owner Cockpit sets net sales, orders, covers and the average bill against the previous period, draws each hour of today against the same weekday over the last four weeks, and keeps labour and food cost beside the sales they belong to. A Needs you list names the exceptions: a kitchen ticket waiting past 8 minutes, an item at its reorder level, a discount spike, a day left without a cash-up. In every plan, from ₹2,999 a month.
Needs you8 min2×1Today2Needs you3Discounts4Source
  1. 1TodayEach hour against four weeks of the same weekday
  2. 2Needs youA kitchen ticket past 8 minutes joins the list
  3. 3DiscountsOver ₹500 and over twice the week’s daily average
  4. 4SourceTap a figure and it opens its source: here, the kitchen board
Fig. 0One morning at a sample restaurant: from today’s hours to the kitchen board.
  • 4 weeksof the same weekday behind each hour of today
  • 8 minand a waiting kitchen ticket joins Needs you
  • 2×the week’s daily discounts, and today goes on the list
  • 30 daysthe longest range, set against the 30 before it

01At a glance

What the Cockpit shows.

  • Every figure against the last periodNet sales, orders, covers and the average bill each carry the change from the period before, whether you pick today, yesterday, 7 days or 30.
  • Today against a normal dayEach hour of today is drawn against the same weekday averaged over the last four weeks, so a slow lunch shows while lunch is still on.
  • Labour and food cost beside salesLabour as a share of sales with its target, food cost, prime cost and sales per labour hour, on the same screen as the takings.
  • Needs youLate kitchen tickets, items at their reorder level, unexplained stock variance, a discount spike, labour over target and a day with no cash-up.
  • Every number opens its sourceTap a figure and it opens the orders, the report or the kitchen board it was counted from.
  • Honest on the first dayBefore the first sale the Cockpit shows the setup checklist, headed Nothing has been sold here yet, instead of a row of zeros.

02In detail

What should an owner see first each morning?

Movement, not totals. A sales figure on its own says little; the same figure beside last week’s says whether to worry. So every headline on the Cockpit carries its change from the previous period of the same length, and the hourly line is drawn against how this weekday has gone over the last four weeks, not against a target somebody typed once.

The Cockpit also keeps the costs on the screen with the sales. Labour shows as a share of sales against its target, with food cost and prime cost beside it, because a busy day with labour running high is a different day from a busy day with labour where it should be.

What lands in Needs you, and why only those?

Things a person can act on today. A kitchen ticket waiting more than 8 minutes. An ingredient at or below its reorder level. A gap between the stock the recipes say you used and the stock you counted. Discounts above ₹500 and more than twice the week’s daily average. Labour above its target. Yesterday’s trade with no cash-up recorded.

Each row names what tripped it and opens the screen that deals with it. The list is short on purpose: a feed that reports everything teaches an owner to stop reading it, and the one row that mattered goes unread with the rest.

03Questions

Questions about the Owner Cockpit.

04Read next

Start each day with what changed

The Owner Cockpit is in every plan, from ₹2,999 a month. Apply, and we reply within two working days.

From ₹2,999 a month per outlet, plus GST

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