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
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
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.