Financial Planning & Dashboards

Key metrics, dashboard templates, and planning rhythms for daily, weekly, and monthly financial control.


Calculator

Break-even & target sales calculator

A practical, step-by-step calculator and workbook to compute break-even revenue, contribution margins, and daily/period covers targets by service and channel. Includes clear formulas, an annotated worked example, spreadsheet formulas you can paste into Excel/Sheets, POS export instructions, and guidance for quick sensitivity scenarios (food cost and labor changes).

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Dashboard

Daily Financial Dashboard Template (POS + Cash)

A compact, actionable daily dashboard that shows daily-to-date vs. forecast for sales, covers, average check, food cost %, labor %, voids/remakes, and cash position — with clear metric definitions, calculation formulas, recommended signal thresholds, and a short playbook of morning and closing actions managers can follow.

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Dashboard

Daily Financial Dashboard Template for Managers

A practical, ready-to-adopt daily dashboard layout with KPI definitions, exact calculation rules, suggested visualizations, data sources and mapping, threshold-based alerts, a short huddle script, and interactive tools (data-complete flag and action log) so managers can spot margin leaks and record corrective actions.

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Dashboard Template

Weekly P&L & Cash Snapshot (template)

A compact, actionable weekly dashboard template that maps each metric to data sources, shows how to visualize them, defines thresholds that require action, and provides commentary prompts and a short operational rhythm for managers.

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Dashboard

Daily KPI Dashboard & Huddle Sheet (sales, labor, ticket, waste)

An interactive one-page huddle sheet and compact KPI dashboard to align teams each shift around today’s targets, risks, and rapid actions. Capture today's key metrics, variance commentary, quick corrective actions with owners, and facilitator notes in a structured form that can be saved for follow-up and analysis.

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KPI Huddle

Weekly Financial Huddle Template (with agenda and dashboard)

A compact 30-minute weekly finance huddle: ready-made agenda with scripted prompts, a clear dashboard widget list with definitions and RAG thresholds, meeting roles and escalation rules, and a reusable follow-up tracker to ensure owners close actions.

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Audit

Restaurant Profit Diagnostic: 60-minute cross-functional check

An interactive, guided 60-minute audit that helps cross-functional teams rapidly identify the top 5 profit leaks, score risk areas, record evidence, and assign owners with measurable 30/60/90 day impact estimates.

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Checklist

Daily Financial Checklist for Managers

A short, structured interactive checklist managers can use each shift to keep key financial risks visible, assign owners, and record exceptions for follow-up and trend analysis.

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Checklist

Profitability diagnostic checklist — quick P&L health check

An actionable 60–90 minute interactive checklist to diagnose where profits are leaking, record validated findings, assign owners, and create a short measurement plan. Use this form with POS, inventory, payroll, and supplier data to produce a prioritized improvement plan and a trackable follow-up.

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Guide

Weekly Financial Rhythm: Meetings, Reports & Actions

A practical, step-by-step guide to run a 45–60 minute weekly finance meeting that turns scorecards into prioritized operational actions. Includes a timeboxed agenda, meeting roles, a pre-read data checklist, a prioritized action template that ties items to expected margin impact, facilitation tips, and next-step trackers you can make interactive.

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Dashboard

Daily Contribution Margin Heatmap (by item, by period)

A practical dashboard design with data model, POS join examples, metric definitions, visualization patterns (item-by-period heatmap, sales mix, labor-impact overlays) and a concise operational playbook with clear decision rules (promote, pull, reprice, revise recipe) plus an implementation checklist.

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Template

Weekly cash flow & working capital template

A practical rolling 13‑week cash forecast with scenario inputs (base, low, high), linked payables and payroll schedules, and an action tracker to surface short-term cash risks and clear next steps.

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