Margin what-if
Move three margin levers. See what the month gives back.
Set food cost, weekly labor hours, and supplier markup. The result compares your choices with doing nothing, right in the browser. It is directional math, not a personalized financial claim.
Single-room cafe · 600 covers/wk · $14 average ticket · $800 ingredients/wk · 30% food cost · 240 labor hrs/wk at $20/hr · 10% supplier markup.
Three assumptions
The few numbers an operator can actually move.
Drag a range or type a number. Every change is compared with the stated baseline, then saved only in this browser.
Lower the share of sales that goes back into ingredients. A lower number models more margin kept at the till.
Trim scheduled hours without pretending service gets free. The model prices each hour at the stated blended rate.
Bring the supplier premium down through a better quote or counter-bid. The base is the stated weekly ingredient spend.
Read the number correctly
Useful for a sanity check. Not a promise.
Each line is a monthly cost difference versus the do-nothing cafe above: food cost is measured against monthly sales, labor against the blended hourly rate, and supplier markup against the stated monthly ingredient base.
The baseline starts at $0/mo. Lowering any one cost moves the result up; raising it moves the result down. If the combined changes cost more than doing nothing, the result stays negative instead of calling that savings.
Nothing leaves this browser. The last assumption set is stored locally so a return visit picks up where you left off, while the public page stays anonymous and signup-free.
Next step
Turn the what-if into a morning habit.
If the number is worth checking, the morning digest puts the highest-impact actions in front of you before service.