Prime Cost Assessment
Prime cost is food, beverage, and labor cost combined — usually the single biggest lever on whether a restaurant makes money. The healthy range depends heavily on your concept and size, so this tool reads your numbers against benchmarks for operations like yours, then points at where to look.
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Numbers tell you something's off — an audit tells you exactly what to fix. If you want help closing the gap, we'll walk through your actual operation, not just the percentages.
Ranges here are operator benchmarks — informed by direct restaurant ownership experience, not a statistical industry survey — meant to point you toward where to dig, not to serve as an audited standard. Prime cost also isn't the whole margin picture: rent, insurance, and other fixed costs sit outside it entirely.
