Paperwork for the
actual restaurant.
Recipe cost cards, par sheets, the daily P&L, the GBP audit you keep forgetting to run. Printable, fillable in your browser, exportable to CSV. None of your numbers leave the page.
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Operations & Margin
The honest paperwork of running an independent restaurant — daily, weekly, monthly. The sheets that keep prime cost from drifting.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack when a number is moving and you don't know which one. The sheets here are the standing practice that keeps prime cost honest, the line check that catches the temp gap, and the cash log that ends the over/short conversation. Skip it if you already have a system and just need a fillable form — your existing routine probably won't benefit from another one.
Recipe Cost Card
Drop in ingredients, AP prices, and yields. Walk away with plate cost, target price at your food-cost goal, and a printable card for the binder.
You leave with: A printed cost card with target price and food-cost percent.
Cadence: Per recipe
LiveWeekly Prime Cost Worksheet
The single most important number a small operator can track. Plug in food, beverage, and labor costs against net sales. See your prime cost percent and where it sits versus the 60 percent ceiling.
You leave with: Your prime cost percent, week-over-week trend, and distance from a 60 percent target.
Cadence: Weekly · Tuesday for prior week
LiveDaily Sales & Cover Recap
End-of-night close-out, one page per shift. Net sales, covers, voids, comps, cash over and short, weather note, manager initials.
You leave with: Average check, voids as percent of sales, anomaly flag versus your trailing 14-day average.
Cadence: Daily · per shift
LivePre-Service Line Check
Ten-minute walk before doors open — temps, prep par, 86 list, expo notes. Lives on a clipboard; built to print.
You leave with: An 86 list, a prep gap list, and a temp-log paper trail for the health inspector.
Cadence: Daily · twice per shift
LiveWaste & Spoilage Log
Translate "we throw a lot away" into a dollar number nobody can argue with. Item, quantity, reason code, cost.
You leave with: Weekly waste in dollars, your top 5 offenders, and the reason-code mix.
Cadence: Daily entry · weekly review
LiveInvoice Receiving Checklist
Catch short-shipped, substituted, or price-creep items at the back door — before the truck leaves. Vendor, line, qty ordered versus received, unit-price change, temps for proteins and dairy.
You leave with: A credit-request flag list and a unit-cost change list for your buyer.
Cadence: Per delivery
LiveMonthly P&L Snapshot
A one-page P&L the operator can read in 90 seconds — not the accountant's version. Sales by daypart, COGS, labor, occupancy, marketing.
You leave with: Prime cost percent, contribution margin percent, breakeven sales per day.
Cadence: Monthly
LivePeriod-End Inventory Count Sheet
Walk-through count, organized by storage location, not alphabet. Counted on a clipboard, keyed in later.
You leave with: Total inventory dollars by category and a variance list versus theoretical use.
Cadence: Monthly · weekly for high-volume
LiveCash Drop & Deposit Log
Chain of custody for cash from drawer to bank. Drawer number, opening bank, cash sales, paid-outs, drop, two initials, deposit slip number.
You leave with: Over and short by drawer, by employee, by shift.
Cadence: Per drop · daily review
Local SEO & Discovery
How Google sees your restaurant — and the small habits that keep your listing earning bookings.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack when bookings dipped and you have not changed anything in the kitchen. Most of what looks like a slow week is a stale Google listing, a NAP mismatch across twelve citation sources, or a holiday hours field nobody updated. The sheets here turn fifteen minutes a month into the most leveraged marketing work an independent can do. Skip it if your GBP is already on the dashboard of an agency you trust to keep it current.
GBP Monthly Health Check
Fifteen-minute walk of your Google Business Profile. Hours, primary category, photo count, posts, Q&A, review velocity, NAP match versus your website. Pass or fail per row, with a fix list.
You leave with: A monthly punch list: what is current, what drifted, what to fix this week.
Cadence: Monthly
LiveNAP Consistency Tracker
Same name, address, phone everywhere — Google Business Profile, Yelp, Apple, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, your own footer, your schema. One mismatch and Google starts doubting which one is you.
You leave with: A mismatch list and a priority-fix order across 12 citation sources.
Cadence: Quarterly
LiveHoliday Hours Update Planner
A quarter ahead of every federal and local holiday — planned hours, GBP updated yes or no, website updated, voicemail updated.
You leave with: A punch list with deadlines, by holiday, by surface.
Cadence: Quarterly
LiveLocal Keyword × Page Map
Which keyword each page targets, neighborhood modifier, current rank, page H1, schema type. Surfaces cannibalization and coverage gaps.
You leave with: Coverage gaps and cannibalization flags ready for the content calendar.
Cadence: Quarterly
LivePhoto Refresh Tracker
Channel — GBP, Instagram, website, Yelp — by shot type, by last upload date. Catches stale heroes and the channel you forgot about.
You leave with: Channels overdue for content and a shot-type gap list for the next shoot.
Cadence: Monthly
Conversions & Reservations
What the website and the third-party channels actually deliver — measured against what they cost.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack when the dining room is full but the margin is not. The sheets here settle three arguments most operators have at least once a quarter: is DoorDash actually paying us, are we losing reservations to no-shows we never priced, and is the website itself the leak. Skip it if you do not run third-party delivery and your reservation book is mostly walk-ins.
Third-Party Channel P&L
Run the honest math on DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub. Gross sales minus commission, marketing fees, refunds, packaging, and the labor those orders cost. Settles the argument.
You leave with: True margin per channel and the breakeven menu markup if you keep the channel on.
Cadence: Monthly
LiveReservation & No-Show Log
Booking source, party size, deposit yes or no, showed or no-show or late-cancel, revenue lost. Names what each empty seat actually cost.
You leave with: No-show rate by source and lost revenue per week, priced.
Cadence: Daily
LiveWebsite Conversion Checklist
Mobile menu loads in three seconds, click-to-call above the fold, reservation CTA above the fold, hours visible, address tap-to-map, allergen and menu PDFs mobile-readable.
You leave with: Pass-or-fail per row, with fix priority for the developer.
Cadence: Quarterly
LiveDaypart Traffic Map
Day by hour grid — covers, sales, labor hours. Reveals where you are paying for staff that has nothing to serve.
You leave with: Sales-per-labor-hour heatmap and the obvious scheduling cuts.
Cadence: Monthly
LiveEmail & SMS List Growth Log
Source by month — table tent, QR, reservation, online order — with new sign-ups, unsubs, opens, clicks. Names which channels actually grow the list.
You leave with: Channel ROI and a list-health score.
Cadence: Monthly
Brand & Design
The handoffs your designer, photographer, and printer need — written down once so the work can move.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack the day before you call the designer, the photographer, or the sign vendor. Every minute spent filling these is twenty minutes saved in the back-and-forth, and the work that comes back will look like what you asked for. Skip it if you have an in-house creative who already has the brief in their head — these are for the operator who hires by project.
Menu Redesign Brief
What the designer needs to do the work — top 10 sellers, dogs to cut, price changes, callout items, dietary flags, print and digital and POS targets.
You leave with: A designer-ready spec, in one page.
Cadence: Every 6 to 18 months
LiveBrand Asset Inventory
Asset type, file location, last updated, owner, license. Catches the logo that only exists on a former employee's laptop.
You leave with: A missing-asset list and a license-risk flag list.
Cadence: Quarterly
LiveSignage & Print Spec Sheet
Sign type, dimensions, material, color codes, mounting, vendor, install date. Hands the printer everything they need to start.
You leave with: A print-ready spec with no Pantone-versus-CMYK confusion.
Cadence: Situational
LivePhoto Shoot Shot List
Dish, plate type, garnish, props, channel target, priority. Lives on set, ticks off as you go.
You leave with: The photographer's day-of plan with no skipped shots.
Cadence: Per shoot
LiveSocial Content Calendar
Date, channel, post type, asset link, caption draft, CTA, status. Thirty days planned at a time so you stop posting the same hero shot.
You leave with: A 30-day plan that mixes food, people, and place.
Cadence: Monthly
LiveVendor Contact Sheet
Vendor, contact, phone, email, account number, delivery days, payment terms. Lives by the office phone for the day a vendor disappears.
You leave with: A one-page emergency reference.
Cadence: Quarterly review
Trust & Reviews
The paperwork that makes you defensible — to a guest, to a health inspector, to an insurer.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack the week before the inspection, the day a complaint repeats, or the moment something goes wrong on the floor. These four sheets carry a regional disclaimer because health code, allergen labeling, hire reporting, and incident protocol all vary by jurisdiction — verify with your local authority. The fifth and sixth (review-response and root-cause) are universal. Skip the regulatory ones if you have a compliance partner who runs them; pull the review and root-cause logs anyway, those are operator work.
Review Response Log
Platform, reviewer, stars, theme tag, response date, responder, follow-up needed. Catches the recurring complaint hiding in the 3-star reviews.
You leave with: Response-rate percent and the top recurring complaint themes.
Cadence: Weekly
LiveComplaint Root-Cause Tracker
Date, channel, category, root cause, fix, owner. Logs the cause, not the symptom — "expo gap," not "cold food."
You leave with: Top three recurring causes and who owns each fix.
Cadence: Weekly
LiveHealth Inspection Prep Checklist
Last violation list, temp logs current, hand-sink stocked, chemical labels, dating system, certifications posted. Treats inspection-ready as standing practice.
You leave with: Pass-or-fail per row, ready for an unannounced visit.
Cadence: Quarterly
LiveStaff Onboarding Checklist (Operational)
Tour, uniform, POS login, food-handler card, manager intro, week-one trail shifts. Operational only — no I-9, no W-4, no state new-hire reporting.
You leave with: Day-one readiness for the cook or server who just started.
Cadence: Per hire
LiveIncident Report (Slip · Injury · Customer)
Date and time, location, persons, witnesses, description, photos, actions taken, manager signature. Filled the day it happens, not the week after.
You leave with: An ink-signed record your insurer can use.
Cadence: Situational
LiveMenu Allergen Matrix
Menu item by top-9 US allergens grid, with modifications-on-request notes. Updates with every menu change. Server reference, liability defense.
You leave with: A printable grid for the service line and a digital version for the website.
Cadence: Quarterly · plus on every menu change
Open the Doors course
The printable companion artifacts to the Open the Doors bootcamp — one tear-sheet per lesson, fillable in the browser or on paper.
When to reach for this pack
Reach for this pack if you've walked the Open the Doors bootcamp at /course/ and you want a clipboard copy of the work — a promise paragraph on the host stand, the menu shortlist in the kitchen lead's binder, the 30-day rhythm pinned next to the printer. Every sheet matches a lesson and uses your saved answers from MuntinContext when present. Skip the pack if you'd rather keep the work in the browser; the bootcamp's L14 generator already pulls every field into the deployed site.
Your one promise
Write the single sentence that future diners would use to recommend you. Print it, pin it above the host stand, and read it aloud at every brief.
You leave with: A printed promise paragraph the whole team can recite.
Cadence: Once at L3; revisited quarterly
LiveYour customer in one paragraph
A printable customer card — name, neighborhood, what they look for, what time of day they walk in. The reference document for every staff decision.
You leave with: A printed customer paragraph pinned where the FOH lead can see it.
Cadence: Once at L4; revisited yearly
LiveNaming + domain check
A printable checklist for vetting a restaurant name and locking in the matching domain. Trademark, social handles, .com availability, neighborhood signal.
You leave with: A vetted name + a registered .com before you order signage.
Cadence: Once at L5a (fresh track)
LiveAudit your current site
A printable scoresheet for the rebuild track — walk your current site as a diner would, with severity ratings on every page.
You leave with: A ranked list of what to fix first, second, third on your existing site.
Cadence: Once at L5b (rebuild track); revisited annually
LiveCuisine + positioning plot
A printable 2D plot — cuisine breadth × price tier — with your restaurant placed on the grid. The reference for every menu and marketing decision.
You leave with: A printed positioning grid showing where you land vs the competition.
Cadence: Once at L6a (fresh track); revisited yearly
LiveDiagnose what's leaking
A printable ranked diagnosis of the most-urgent leaks on your current restaurant site — hours, menu, phone, photos, reviews, speed.
You leave with: Top-3 urgent leaks named, ready to hand to a developer or fix yourself.
Cadence: Once at L6b (rebuild track)
LivePalette + voice
A printable brand sheet — the three colors (accent / cream / ink), the three voice sliders, and a sample paragraph rendered in both. Hand to the designer.
You leave with: A one-page brand reference the designer / printer can color-match against.
Cadence: Once at L7; revisited yearly
LiveYour menu shortlist
A printable menu shortlist — the 8-to-12 dishes that demonstrate the kitchen's range. Names, prices, allergen notes, plate-cost ready for the kitchen lead.
You leave with: A printed menu shortlist the kitchen lead can quote prices off.
Cadence: Once at L8; revisited quarterly
LivePhoto brief
A printable shot list for a photographer or the operator with a phone — exact dishes, exact angles, exact light, in order so the shoot doesn't drift.
You leave with: A photographer-ready shot list with priorities and lighting notes.
Cadence: Once at L9; revisited per shoot
LiveHours, holidays, contact
A printable weekly hours grid + holiday closure planner + the canonical phone number. The single source of truth your GBP, site, and voicemail all cite.
You leave with: A printed hours sheet pinned where the manager + voicemail recordist can read it.
Cadence: Once at L10; updated whenever hours change
LiveGoogle Business Profile checklist
A printable 22-point checklist for a fully-correct GBP — name, address, phone, hours, photos, categories, attributes, services, the lot.
You leave with: A 22-point checklist with every GBP field accounted for.
Cadence: Once at L11; revisited monthly per the L16 rhythm
LiveLocal SEO — 8 keyword phrases
A printable record of the 8 neighborhood + cuisine keyword phrases your site anchors to. Useful when handing off to an agency or running your own quarterly review.
You leave with: Eight keyword phrases printed, ready to verify in Google incognito.
Cadence: Once at L12; revisited quarterly per the L16 rhythm
LiveBad-review response template
A printable name-own-repair template — your pre-drafted response to the first bad review, ready to adapt in 5 minutes instead of stewing for a week.
You leave with: A printed template the manager can grab when the bad review lands.
Cadence: Once at L13; used on demand
LiveThe 30-day rhythm
A printable month-view calendar with the four recurring tasks placed on real days — hours check, reviews triage, regenerate + redeploy, SEO sanity.
You leave with: A printed calendar pinned next to the printer with the four tasks on real days.
Cadence: Once at L16; refreshed each month
LiveLaunch week checklist
Ten one-time tasks for the seven days after deploy — Search Console submission, third-party listings, redirects, URL distribution. The things that compound for the next year and only get done in the first week.
You leave with: Ten one-time launch tasks crossed off in the seven days after deploy.
Cadence: Once, the week after L15 deploy
What these sheets do not cover
Operator Sheets do not cover payroll calculation, tax filing, tip-pool allocation, predictive-scheduling forms, I-9 / W-4 / state new-hire reporting. These are jurisdiction-specific and a small site cannot maintain accurate forms across 50 states. We name what we exclude rather than ship something that could land an operator on the wrong side of a law.
Free, no signup. Pack 1 (Operations & Margin) is shipping first; the rest follow on a rolling cadence.