16 restaurant ops tools
Restaurant math, solved.
Free calculators for the operations math every independent restaurant runs every week. No accounts. No paywalls. The formula is shown underneath every result so you can trust it, and teach it to your sous in thirty seconds.
Most used
Food Cost Percentage
Compare food cost to revenue. Industry healthy range 28–32% full-service. Quick mode + Detailed COGS w/ adjustments.
Cost calculators
Recipe & Plate Cost
Build plate cost from ingredients. Add unlimited rows.
Liquor Pour Cost
Aggregate or per-drink. Bottle math + spillage.
Draft Beer / Keg Cost
Cost per pour, pour cost %, profit per keg.
Fountain Drink / BIB Cost
BIB yield + ice + free refills + cup. Real fountain pour cost.
Pricing calculators
Menu Pricing
Price from plate cost + target. Charm rounding + prime cost.
Break-Even Revenue
Fixed + variable. Margin of Safety + capacity check.
Prime Cost
Food + bev + labor as % of revenue. The single ops metric.
Menu Engineering
Star / Plowhorse / Puzzle / Dog matrix. Per-item classification.
Delivery True-Profit
DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub net per order + reverse-solve price.
Catering Pricing
Per-head + labor + rentals + service charge legal split.
Labor + tip calculators
Inventory calculators
Reservation & operations
No SaaS pitch. Just math.
Toast, Restaurant365, MarginEdgeevery one of them has a free calculator behind an email gate. Independent operators don't need another sales funnel. They need a number, fast, on a phone, between rushes. That's all this is.
Industry benchmarks cross-checked against the National Restaurant Association and BLS NAICS 722 industry tables.
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