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Critical BOH Restaurant KPIs That Optimize Labor Costs and CoGs, Part 2

Restaurant365

Your restaurant is constantly generating data, whether from your sales revenue, food costs, or labor hours. Leveraging your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH) data allows you to gain more insight into your operations. Get the data you need to grow your profitability by reviewing critical FOH and BOH restaurant KPIs.

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How to Drastically Cut Expenses in Your Restaurant (and Stay Profitable During COVID-19)

7 Shifts

Comparing 7shifts’ internal data of 10,000+ restaurants, restaurants are seeing an average weekly decrease in sales of 50% across the board in North America. Evaluate your restaurant scheduling practices to see if you are consistently over-budgeting on labor needs based on your sales.

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Essential FOH Restaurant KPIs That Increase Profitability, Part 1

Restaurant365

After all, it’s hard to improve a metric if you don’t know your starting point. You can use data to improve restaurant operations, both in your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH). Optimizing your BOH and FOH metrics boosts the efficiency of your labor and food spending. Focus on the customer experience.

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Restaurant Labor Cost Control: 11 Reports to Optimize Labor

Restaurant365

Calculating your restaurant labor cost and sales for a specific period indicates how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand. Use the following restaurant labor cost formula to determine your labor cost percentage: Total Labor Cost ÷Total Sales = Labor cost as a percentage of total sales.

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Restaurant Kitchen Staff is Key to Food Cost Savings

Restaurant365

Critically, knowing your AvT numbers through your restaurant operations reporting gives you a concrete starting point to identify the foods that are commonly wasted. As a restaurant owner or operator, keeping your food costs low is a continual challenge. And yet, it’s such a big topic, it can be difficult to understand where to begin.

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8 Tips to Optimize Restaurant Labor Costs Despite Higher Minimum Wages

Restaurant365

Your labor cost is one of your biggest expenses, but it can be difficult to track, since sales and labor needs may fluctuate by the day, week, and quarter. Looking at the cost of labor as a percentage of sales shows how your employee labor hours are matching with customer demand (sales). How to calculate labor cost.

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Meeting Off-Premise Demand While Rebuilding In-Restaurant Sales to Boost Profitability

Restaurant365

But while off-premise demand has grown, in-person sales are coming back as more regions open up again. For restaurant owners and operators, how do you balance between maintaining off-premise business and rebuilding in-restaurant sales—at the same time? However, in the era of social distancing, these burgeoning trends took off.