RestaurantDoctorAI

Lists the 12 multiple-choice questions of the free restaurant profit check, with the answer values each one accepts. Money ranges, delivery apps and review sites follow the restaurant's country (default US).

Scores a restaurant's 12 answers against RestaurantDoctorAI's targets for its type of restaurant and returns the free result the website shows: an overall grade, grades by area, the estimated profit leak of all the leaks together a month and a year, the biggest leak or opportunity with its estimated money a month, what one point of prime cost is worth, and the first fix. Includes a link that opens

Reads a recipe's ingredient lines as written, weighs each one with USDA FoodData Central and USDA yields, and prices it with the owner's own prices when given, else dated US public prices (BLS and USDA ERS store averages, USDA wholesale prices, and USDA weekly store-ad sale prices, which run low). Returns a draft in US dollars: each line's grams, cost and price source, what each line still needs,

Checks a restaurant's own website as the online check on restaurantdoctorai.com does: secure (https), made for phones, a menu written as text that phones and Google can read, online orders on its own terms or only through delivery apps, tap to call, a title and description for Google, and Google's phone speed test (15 to 40 seconds; phoneSpeed: false skips it). Returns each check with what to fix,

Lists a US restaurant's coming tax, payroll, license and permit deadlines, as the deadline calendar on restaurantdoctorai.com does: federal dates (payroll forms, tip reports, W-2s, 1099s, returns, estimated tax) and the state's (sales tax, unemployment reports, yearly reports, franchise taxes, minimum wage changes, liquor and health permit dates where one date applies to everyone), each moved for

Searches RestaurantDoctorAI's sourced library: the website's guides and blog posts, the step-by-step fixes from the paid report's playbook, RestaurantDoctorAI's targets by type of restaurant, sourced industry facts, and an expert knowledge base of sourced how-tos, rules and checklists (costs, labor, money, growth, compliance, operations). Keyword search: "break-even", "breakeven" and "break even"

Lists the entries of RestaurantDoctorAI's sourced library, all or one kind (guide, post, play, targets, fact or knowledge), up to 50 at a time: each with its id, kind, title, link and source, and for guides and blog posts the day it was published and last updated. It shows what the library has, such as every blog post and its date. Pages with offset and limit; nextOffset gives the next page. Nothi

Reads one entry of RestaurantDoctorAI's library in full (a guide, a blog post, a playbook fix, the targets, a fact or a knowledge entry), by its id (such as 'guide:restaurant-prime-cost'), with its title, link and source. A long entry comes 8,000 characters at a time, with its total length: the next part starts at the nextOffset it returns. The query isn't stored; only an anonymous daily count of

Works out a restaurant's prime cost from the owner's own figures for one week or month, as the free prime cost calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does: food and drink used plus labor, as a share of net sales, against the target for its type of restaurant, with what the points over or under are worth, food and labor each against their own range, and which to look at first. Takes net sales, food a

Works out a restaurant's labor cost from the owner's own payroll figures for one week or month, as the free labor cost calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does, in one of its three modes: share (labor as a % of net sales, against the range for its type of restaurant, with what the points over are worth), hours (next period's labor budget and the hourly staff hours it pays for once salaries are pa

Works out a restaurant's break-even sales from the owner's figures for one typical month, as the free break-even calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does: the sales a month needs to pay every bill, also a week, a day open and guests a day; how far the month was above or short of it; what was left over after every bill; what a point of cost moves it by; with and without the owner's own pay; and if

Works out a restaurant's monthly budget from the owner's expected sales and type of restaurant, as the free restaurant budget calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does: food and drink, labor, prime cost and rent with utilities as money ranges by RestaurantDoctorAI's targets for that type, other operating costs at the owner's share or a 20% working assumption, what's left after every bill, and brea

Works out what one plate of a dish costs and what to charge for it, as the free plate cost calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does: from each ingredient's pack price and the amount used (with a usable % for trim), or from a plate cost the owner already knows; then the food cost at the menu price, what's left per plate, the price for their target food cost and the prices inside the range for thei

Works out a dish's break-even price on a delivery app, the app price that leaves the owner the same money as selling it in their dining room, as the free delivery app price calculator on restaurantdoctorai.com does: the in-house price ÷ (1 − the app's real commission rate), the markup on the in-house price that takes (rounded up to a whole percent), and what the app keeps. Takes the dish's in-h

Works out a dish's calories from its recipe, as the free menu calorie counter on restaurantdoctorai.com does: each ingredient's calories from USDA FoodData Central (a list of 118 common foods) or its pack label, added up, shared by the plates it makes or by portion weight, and rounded once the way US, Ontario or UK and EU menus show calories. Ingredients are matched to that list, never guessed: wo

Estimates a US restaurant's FICA tip credit (IRS Form 8846, the 45B credit) for a year like the one in its payroll figures, as the free FICA tip credit check on restaurantdoctorai.com does: the employer's 7.65% Social Security and Medicare tax on reported tips, less the tips needed to bring tipped staff's cash wage up to the 5.15 dollars an hour the law fixes for restaurants. Returns the reasons t

Checks a US restaurant's card processing fees for one month, as the free card fees check on restaurantdoctorai.com does: the cost per 100 dollars of card sales (the effective rate), against a dated fair range for that type of restaurant (an estimate of a competitive interchange-plus account from Visa's published restaurant interchange, network fees and a fair markup); how far above it the fees are

Works out what a US restaurant's reservation app costs it, as the free booking fee check on restaurantdoctorai.com does: a month, a year, per guest who booked through it and as a share of the average spend, from the plan's published price (dated, sourced) or the owner's invoice, plus fees per guest and the percentage on deposits. Of the apps checked, only OpenTable charges per guest: for guests fr

Works out a restaurant's nightly cash close for one drawer and one day or shift, as the free cash-out sheet on restaurantdoctorai.com does: expected cash (starting bank + cash sales - cash tips paid out - paid outs), over or short against the cash counted, the deposit (counted minus the starting bank), the card difference (processor batch minus POS card sales) when both are sent, and comps, voids

Works out how a restaurant shares tips, two ways, as the free tip-out sheet on restaurantdoctorai.com does. method percent: a server's tip-out to support roles, each a percentage of the server's net sales or tips, with the total tip-out, what the server keeps from their tips, and an error-level check when the tip-out is more than the tips. method pool: a tip pool shared by hours, with optional poi

Works out par levels and what to order for up to 50 kitchen or bar items, as the free prep and par sheet on restaurantdoctorai.com does. Par = use per day × days covered + safety stock (days covered: from the day of the count and the order until the next delivery after this one arrives); order = par minus what's on hand, never below 0, rounded up to whole packs when a pack size is sent. Takes eac