SAMPLE, A PLACE LIKE YOURS · FICTIONAL HOTEL, FICTIONAL NUMBERS PUBLISHED DAILY, ABOUT YOUR HOTEL’S FOOD AND DRINK, BY SYPHOR The Morning Brief | THE WEXLEY HOTEL · ALL OUTLETS | WEDNESDAY MORNING |
All 4 outletsWexley GrillLobby BarIn-Room DiningBanquets $14,100 ▲ 4.4%vs. a usual Tuesday ($13,510) · 418 covers · made $3,485 yesterday AGAINST LAST YEAR · ALL OUTLETS | gray is last year | SALES | DEPT. PROFIT |
| Same Tuesday | $14,100 ▲ 6.0% $13,300 | $3,485 ▲ $365 $3,120 |
| Last 7 days | $96,000 ▲ 4.9% $91,500 | $24,960 ▲ $2,160 $22,800 |
| Month to date | $268,400 ▲ 5.0% $255,600 | $70,000 ▲ $5,700 $64,300 |
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THE ONE THING TODAY You are owed $4,350 in food and beverage, $5,307 with the 22% service charge, before tax. Three banquets last month came in under their minimum and were billed only for what they ate. Checks in the POS, minimums in the contracts; nobody matched them. About $52,000 a year in food and beverage if last month is typical. The Hale wedding was $1,900 short of its $18,000 minimum, the medical society $1,600, a law firm’s dinner $850. |
ACROSS YOUR 4 OUTLETS, YESTERDAY | # | OUTLET | SALES | LABOR | DEPT. PROFIT |
| 2 | Lobby Bar 129 guests, busy 5 to 7 | $3,100 | 30% | $1,271 |
| 3 | Wexley Grill | $5,200 | 42% | $1,144 |
| 4 | In-Room Dining cook and server until 2 AM | $1,300 | 85% | -$325 |
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SALES → DEPT. PROFIT · ALL OUTLETS YESTERDAY Card fees $423: in A&G, not department profit. LAST 7 DAYS Card fees $2,880: in A&G, not department profit. For the week: department profit is before rent and overhead, the way your hotel P&L counts it. Labor and other expenses are estimates until payroll and the bills post. |
THE LEDGER · ALL OUTLETS | Breakfast | 96 covers ▲ 7% Up from a usual 90. $18 a cover; 45 per 100 of 212 occupied rooms. |
| Labor est. | 41.1% Kitchen 17.8%, service 16.9%, banquets 6.4%. |
| Month to date | $70,000 Dept. profit, budget $67,100. Sales $268,400, budget $262,000. Flow-through 45%. |
| Invoice prices | $230 a week more ▲ 8 up, 2 down 11 invoices this week, every line against last week’s. Eggs are $94 of it. |
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In-room dining. 31 orders yesterday, 4 after 11 PM for $118. A cook at $34 and a server at $20, with taxes and benefits, stayed until 2 AM for those 4: 3 hours each, $162. Run it from the Lobby Bar until 12:30 instead: the Grill closer preps four items at 10:30 for $12; the bar server, on until close, runs trays; after 12:30 the front desk has the grab-and-go case. You keep $150 a night. Breakfast labor. 4 breakfast servers for 96 covers; 3 handle a usual Tuesday. The fourth was 5.5 hours at $20 with taxes and benefits, $110 a shift, $550 over five weekdays. Three reviews called Sunday breakfast slow: 3 servers, 131 covers. Invoices. Carrow Creek Dairy’s Monday invoice has eggs at $38.50 a case, up 14% from $33.80 last week; at 20 cases a week, about $94 a week. That is 5 cents a two-egg plate: the $14 plate goes from 38.0% to 38.4% food cost, 35.8% at $15. Menu unchanged. Conference week. A 2,400-person medical conference starts Thursday. Ember Lane Kitchen, new across the street, sells a $12 burger until 6; badges pass it at 5. Thursday to Saturday: dry, about 60°F. IN HOUSE AND BANQUETS · WHAT’S ON THE BOOK | Thursday | 97% booked About 120 breakfasts a day through Saturday. |
| Saturday | Wedding, 140 Final count due Thursday; check it against the minimum before the BEO is signed. |
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FROM THE LOGBOOK · YESTERDAY In-Room Dining: 4 orders after 11, the last at 1:15. Marcus, overnight, 2:10 AM. Banquets: Bank wants a December party quote. Priya, banquets, 3:40 PM. |
MENU SANDBOX · TRY IT BEFORE IT GOES ON THE MENU | The two-egg plate at $15 on 210 orders a week, if guests still order it. | +$210 a week |
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THE ACTION LIST · TODAY, IN ORDER | 1. | Bill: Add $3,500 plus service charge to the open Hale wedding and medical society invoices. The law firm paid: bill its $850 or get a signed waiver. |
| 2. | Try: Late in-room dining from the Lobby Bar from Monday, menu card to 12:30, once HR clears the bar server running trays; the in-room pair off at 11. $4,500 a month. |
| 3. | Schedule: 3 breakfast servers on weekdays after the conference saves $550; a fourth on Sundays costs $110. Nets $440 a week. |
| 4. | Price: The two-egg plate at $15 from Monday on the outlet menu; breakfast-included rate codes and the conference allowance stay as contracted. $210 a week. |
| 5. | Plan: Conference breakfasts, about $6,500 Thursday to Saturday: a cook and a server 6 to 10, $216 a morning, 2 more cases of eggs today. Terrace 5 to 7 with heaters, a bartender and a server, about $140 a night; at a 25% pour cost, 8 more $24 bar checks cover it. |
| 6. | Send: The bank’s December party quote today, minimum on page one; yesterday’s lunch was $4,500. |
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