Review Restaurant Dashboards
The operations dashboard
Restaurant → Dashboard is your day-to-day cockpit — KPI cards, a trend chart, and recent-activity tables, all read live from your actual data (COGS snapshots, price alerts, depletions, recipes):
- Today's Food Cost % as a progress bar — green at/under target, amber to 35%, red above.
- Top Variance (7 days), Unread Price Alerts, Depletion Health, Recipe Setup health, Today's Waste Cost, Par Level Shortages.
- Menu Engineering — Dogs, once the report has run for the current month and finds at least one.
- Kitchen Display tiles — active tickets, oldest ticket age, tickets bumped today — when KDS is on.
- Below the cards: a 14-day theoretical food cost chart, recent price alerts, recent failed depletions with one-click Reprocess, and a waste-by-reason donut.
A banner links to the full Performance dashboard, and — when Labour Scheduling is licensed — a callout links to Scheduling Analytics for staffing and labour cost per cover.
The Performance dashboard
Restaurant → Performance is the executive view — one page aggregating food cost, waste, channels, kitchen, menu engineering, guests, and supply health over a date range.
- Pick a preset (Today / Last 7 days / Last 30 days / This month / Last month) or a custom range, then Apply.
- Each section card links to its detail screen. Export Excel downloads one workbook with a tab per health area.
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Food Cost Health | % vs target, trend, theoretical vs actual, top variance items |
| Waste Health | Waste cost and trend, waste vs theoretical, waste as % of food cost |
| Channel Mix | POS vs online revenue, dine-in vs takeaway |
| Kitchen Health | Average ticket duration, volume, tickets over threshold |
| Menu Health | Stars/Plowhorses/Puzzles/Dogs counts, top Dogs by revenue |
| Guest Health | Reservations, covers, no-show rate, waitlist length, top loyalty guests |
| Supply Health | Par-level shortages, open price alerts |
| Labour Cost (with Labour Scheduling) | Actual labour cost, % of revenue, cost per cover |
Empty sections show a friendly "Not enough data yet" state with a setup link — the page never breaks for a brand-new restaurant.
Scheduled digests
Turn on Weekly and/or Monthly digest in Settings and the same Performance numbers land by email — Monday 07:00 UTC for weekly, the 1st at 07:00 UTC for monthly — with a "check before next week" block only when something genuinely needs attention. Send test digest proves delivery immediately, using the weekly format, without touching the schedule or "last sent" state.
:::info Numbers always match Digests are built from the same aggregation as the Performance dashboard for the same date range — they can never drift apart from what you see on screen. :::