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Restaurant Franchising: 10 Essential Performance Metrics For Consistent Group-wide Profitability

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It’s a giant leap from running a handful of locations in-house to franchising your restaurant. This article lists ten crucial restaurant franchise metrics. Owning a franchise means collaborating with multiple independent business owners. 10 Key Metrics Restaurant Franchises Should Focus On And How To Improve Them.

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What Is A Central Production Kitchen, And Why Are Restaurant Brands Increasingly Adding Them To Their Operations?  

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The brand acts as a hub for multiple expansions and extensions, ranging from franchise outlets, delivery, takeout, virtual restaurants, dark kitchens and even retail ventures. Central kitchens are commonly referred to as central production kitchens, centralised kitchens, central production units or CPUs, commissary kitchens, or prep kitchens.

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How 4 Restaurant Managers Hire, Train, and Retain

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Ellesse Piper is the Operations Manager at 7 Leaves Cafe , a QSR franchise with 40+ locations in 4 states. Piper admits that it's harder to hire for skilled positions, like management and BOH. A team member gets an incentive if the person they referred gets hired. But throwing bodies at the problem doesn't solve it.

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Mastering Restaurant Metrics: Your Comprehensive Guide to Business Success 

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To calculate labour cost percentage: Labour Cost Percentage = Labour Cost / Sales Pro Tip: To identify what’s affecting your labour costs, divide the staff by FOH (front of house) and BOH (back of house). Together with gross profit, net profit margin is also an important franchise restaurant performance metric.