Sales by day
Customers by day — dashed line is the pre-COVID 168/day benchmark
When customers come in — average orders per hour
Weekday × hour — average orders
What sold — units in the period; revenue estimated at menu price
| Item | Units | Per day | Est. revenue | Margin |
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Sales ex-tax still include card tips — Toast's order feed doesn't separate them. Data comes from Toast through the nightly sync.
Viability — the go / no-go gates
The test: 10% net after everything — COGS, labor, occupancy, interest, amortization and owner comp — judged on a trailing 13 weeks.
What it takes
Where the check comes from
Assumptions — annual $, edit and the page recalculates
The P&L this is built on
Retail tea
Landed cost is leaf + packaging (ex-works × duty × freight) + label. Duty rates are the real ones from the Flexport simulator, not estimates.
The line
Packaging — edit cost and origin, the line recalculates
Duty reference
What it is worth
Labor
QuickBooks Payroll against Toast salesGate 1 test: labor under 30% of tips-excluded sales. Tips are stripped out of both sides — they inflate revenue and payroll by the same dollars.
By pay period
Who worked, and what it cost
Assumptions
Employer taxes cover Social Security, Medicare, FUTA, Colorado SUTA and the FAMLI employer share. Health insurance and workers' compensation are not in here yet.
Where the numbers come from
Cash
Gate 1 test: 80% of weeks open cash-positive. Owner only — this page carries the debt, the arrears and the transfers.
The next 13 weeks
What is committed
Assumptions
Where the money went
Google Ads
Coming next. Spend, clicks, calls and cost per visit by campaign, plus pause / raise / cut buttons. Each change is queued here and applied by Claude on the next run, with a log of who asked for what.
Add new menu item
Recipe
| Ingredient | Qty | Unit | Cost |
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Tip: espresso is weighed in grams of beans (15 g = 2 oz liquid). Syrup pump = 7.39 ml, sauce pump = 14.79 ml.
| Ingredient | Supplier | Pack | Pack price | Unit cost | Price from |
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