Your P&L tells you what. It has never told you why.
One restaurant, one month, closed and set the same night. Every line against its own normal — and every line opens, down to the case you bought.
What this number is, and is not. It is an operating estimate built from what Syphor reads — sales, invoices, hours and the rates you set. It will not match your accounting profit and loss, and labor is estimated from timecards, so what you kept is approximate.
It fills as your sources connect. Sales from the first morning. The food line once your invoices are coming in. The whole page once your accounting is connected.
Price took $1,801 out of the food line.
Prime cost came in under its own normal — the kitchen and the floor both did their job. What you kept still landed no better than a normal August. Here is the month it came out of.
| August | % of sales | Your normal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net salesfood $315,400 · beverage $135,200 | $450,600 | 100.0% | |
| Food cost31.5% of food sales | $99,350 | 22.0% | 21.6% |
| Beverage cost23.8% of beverage sales | $32,140 | 7.1% | 7.1% |
| Cost of sales | $131,490 | 29.2% | 28.7% |
| Management salariesfour salaries, the owner’s inside them | $33,800 | 7.5% | 7.5% |
| Hourly — kitchen | $54,900 | 12.2% | 12.6% |
| Hourly — front of house$2.13 an hour and the tip credit | $41,610 | 9.2% | 9.6% |
| Wages | $130,310 | 28.9% | 29.7% |
| Prime costcost of sales and wages — the same measure as the brief | $261,800 | 58.1% | 58.4% |
| Payroll taxes and benefitson top of the wages above; workers’ comp inside it | $28,500 | 6.3% | 6.5% |
| Direct operatingpaper, cleaning, linen, smallwares | $23,900 | 5.3% | 5.3% |
| Music and entertainmentfive nights a week | $5,400 | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Marketing | $8,100 | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| Utilities | $14,100 | 3.1% | 2.9% |
| Administrative and generalcard fees are $11,300 of it | $19,600 | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Insuranceproperty, liability, liquor | $3,600 | 0.8% | 0.8% |
| Repairs and maintenance | $9,150 | 2.0% | 1.8% |
| Operating expenses | $112,350 | 24.9% | 24.6% |
| Occupancyrent, common area, property tax | $33,100 | 7.3% | 7.3% |
| Equipment leasing | $2,000 | 0.4% | 0.4% |
| Depreciation | $12,500 | 2.8% | 2.8% |
| Interest | $7,000 | 1.6% | 1.6% |
| Rent, equipment, wear and interest | $54,600 | 12.1% | 12.1% |
| What you kept | $21,850 | 4.8% | 4.9% |
Demonstration data. One invented restaurant, one invented month. The statement, the departments and the comparisons are the ones the product returns.
Closed on September 1. Not the twentieth of the month after.
This restaurant does not deliver. Where one does, Syphor reads the platform’s commission off the payout and puts it on this statement like any other line — the one your point of sale never shows you.
Those same price moves, over a full year, are $21,340: a whole month of everything this restaurant keeps.
Every line opens.
Food cost is not a number. It is departments, and inside those, the cases you actually bought. Two are open here — press either one.
The beef is $221.05 a case. In February it was $198.40. It moved over six weeks, nobody wrote to say so, and it has not come back down. Five months later, at nine cases a week, it is still taking $903 a month — the same case, the same vendor, the same line you photographed on Invoices.
Move the price.
The same month, priced the new way.
Every item on your menu has two handles on it — what you charge, and what it costs you. Pull either one and the month you just read is worked out again in front of you.
It tells you four things: the margin on that item, the profit on one plate, what it does to the month, and how many you have to sell to cover your share of the fixed bills.
At the number you already sell — not a number anybody guessed. Nothing here predicts what a price change does to demand, because nothing on this site predicts anything. It is your own month, run again.
And how the trade runs.
The National Restaurant Association publishes what a full-service restaurant spends. Syphor sets your line beside it — after your own normal, never instead of it.
and benefits35.2%36.5%
National Restaurant Association, 2025 Restaurant Operations Data Abstract — 2024 figures from the 900-odd restaurants that answered it. The middle full-service restaurant kept 2.8% before tax that year. These are medians of separate lines from separate restaurants: they do not add up into one restaurant, they are not a target, and not one of them is your normal. The line that actually separated them was wages — the full-service restaurants that made money in 2024 ran 34.2%; the ones that lost money ran 42.9%.
Then put your own
numbers on it.
A goal is a row. It sits in the statement with everything else, and it is measured the same way.
What tomorrow has to do.
Your fixed bills are $105,500 a month and they do not care how quiet Monday was. Everything above $12,042 a night is yours to keep a share of. August cleared it on 22 nights of 31.
That is the month as it stands. The questions you gave up on asking are answered from the same numbers.
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