Free for restaurant operators
Read your restaurant's P&L every day. In 5 minutes.
A printable one-pager plus a ready-to-fill Excel template that turns last night's POS, labor, and invoices into a clean profit number — without an accountant.
- Excel cheat sheet + 1-page printable PDF
- Targets, formulas, and the daily-read framework
- Use it tonight at close. No login required.
What's inside
Two files, one job: turn last night's numbers into a real answer about whether the day actually made money.
Excel cheat sheet
Pre-built rows for sales, COGS, labor, and prime cost — drop in last night's numbers and the margins fill themselves in.
1-page printable PDF
The exact ratios you should hit (food cost, labor %, prime cost) with the math written out so any manager can run it.
Daily-read framework
What to look at first, what's a red flag, and the one number that tells you if today actually made money.
A look at the cheat sheet
Every row is something you can actually fill in tonight from your POS report, schedule, and stack of invoices. Nothing fancy — just the numbers that matter.
- Sales recap (net of comps, voids, and discounts) — the only top line that matters
- Cost of Goods Sold with a target food cost % and the variance to flag
- Labor cost with a target labor %, plus the line where you write in regular vs OT split
- Prime cost (COGS + Labor) — the single number that decides if today was profitable
- Cash + tip reconciliation row so the deposit ties out before close
- Notes block for one-line root cause when a number is off
Net Sales
$8,420
COGS
32.0% • target 30%
$2,690
Labor
26.6% • target 28%
$2,240
Prime Cost
58.5% • target 60%
$4,930
Daily Profit
$1,310
Sample numbers. Your file ships blank — paste your day in and the percentages calculate themselves.
Who this is for
If you've ever closed a busy night and had no idea if you actually made money, this is built for you. It's the same framework restaurant operators use to stop running on end-of-month surprises.
- Owner-operators running 1–5 locations who can't wait until the 15th to see last month's P&L
- GMs and chefs who own the floor but get a flat "how'd we do" question every morning
- Multi-unit operators training new managers on how to actually read the numbers
Grab the files. Read tonight's P&L tomorrow.
Drop your email and we'll send the Excel cheat sheet and the printable PDF straight to your inbox.
Want this number delivered to your phone every morning instead of running it by hand? That's exactly what EasyShiftHQ does — it pulls your POS, labor, and invoices into one daily P&L automatically.