Stop Guessing. Start Seeing the Numbers.
You close the register, lock the doors, and still have no idea if tonight made money. Your P&L shows up 30 days too late. Your gut is tired of guessing. That ends now.
Built by a 20-year operator · Excel Workbooks · Works Day One
You Can't Fix What You Can't See
You're working 60-hour weeks, putting out fires all day, and still don't know if last Tuesday made money. That's not a you problem. It's a visibility problem. And it's costing you thousands you'll never get back.
Your Numbers Live in 5 Different Places
Sales in Toast. Labor in your scheduler. Food cost in a notebook. Comps on a sticky note. By the time you piece it together, the damage is already done and the next shift is starting.
Small Drift Becomes Big Losses
Labor crept up 0.8% this week. Nobody noticed. That's $400. Next week it's $800. By the time it shows up on a P&L, you've already bled thousands. Daily visibility is the only thing that stops it.
Every "Solution" Needs a PhD to Operate
You've tried the dashboards. The $200/month platforms. The onboarding calls. Your managers opened it once and never went back. You need a tool that works like your brain does: fast, simple, mid-shift.
What 1% Labor Drift Actually Costs You
This tracker costs less than one Friday night of labor drift. How many Fridays have you already lost?
Daily KPI Tracker
Stop wondering. Start knowing. Every number that controls your profitability: in one workbook, updated in 5 minutes, visible before the lunch rush.
See Everything.
Fix What Matters.
Your P&L shows up 30 days too late. By then, the money's gone and you're reading history, not running a business. This workbook gives you the same answers: daily. One Excel file. No subscriptions. No IT department. Just clarity before the lunch rush.
Real Data. Real Restaurant. Real Visibility.
Screenshots from a live 53-week deployment at Oak Barrel Public House: $2.3M in annual sales tracked daily.
From Blind to in Control.
In One Morning.
Download & Open
Purchase and instantly download your Excel workbook. No setup wizards. No onboarding calls. No learning curve. Open it and you're in.
5 Minutes a Day
Enter your actuals before the lunch rush. Sales, labor, comps: the basics you already know. The workbook handles every formula, every variance, every rollup.
Know Exactly Where You Stand
Instant visibility into what's working and what's bleeding money. No waiting for your accountant. No guessing. You see it, you fix it, you go run your restaurant.
Daily KPI Tracker
One-time purchase. Yours forever. No subscriptions.
- Daily sales & labor tracking
- Auto-calculated variances
- Weekly KPI snapshot
- Works in Excel & Google Sheets
- Monthly & quarterly rollups
- YTD dashboard & scorecard
- Everything in Basic
- Monthly, quarterly & annual rollups
- YTD dashboard with KPI scorecard
- Prime cost breakdown view
- Comp & void tracking detail
- Manager Guide PDF (15 pages)
- Everything in Pro
- Full 53-week year map with nav
- Day-of-week trend analysis
- Data quality & trust scoring
- Bonus: operator cheat sheets
- Priority email support
Operator-to-Operator Guarantee
If this tracker doesn't save you time and give you visibility into your numbers within 30 days, email me directly and I'll refund every dollar. No forms. No hoops. Operator's word.
Start with Basic and upgrade anytime: we credit 50% of your original purchase toward the next tier.
Still Thinking About It?
Every day without visibility is another day of drift you can't get back. The operators who win don't have better restaurants. They have better numbers. This tracker costs less than one shift of labor drift.
Built From the Floor.
Not the Office.
I've run restaurants for 20 years. I've closed out registers at 2am wondering if the night made money. I've watched labor drift eat my margins for months before a P&L caught it. I've bought expensive platforms my managers never opened.
I built this tracker because I needed it. Not a dashboard. Not a platform. A workbook that a manager can open at 10am and know exactly where they stand: before the lunch rush, not after the accountant calls.
The Restaurant Playbook by Cream City Collective is every tool I wish I'd had from day one. Built mid-shift. Tested in live service. If it doesn't work on the floor, it doesn't ship.
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