Are your venue tools actually making you money?
Most groups we speak to have solid software. A good POS, a rostering tool, maybe an ordering system. But having the tools is not the same as having the answers.
Tick every statement that’s genuinely true for your group right now — not “we could do this.” Your score appears at the bottom.
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Your POS — signals or just receipts?
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We can see how each venue is tracking against its revenue target before the week ends — not on Monday when we reconcile.
Most POS systems tell you what sold. Very few tell you if you're on track while you can still do something about it.
We can see revenue broken down by service period — breakfast, lunch, dinner — across all venues in one place.
If you're logging into each venue separately to piece this together, you're already a step behind.
Our POS feeds directly into our rostering tool — no one is manually exporting anything.
Every manual export is a delay. By the time the numbers land, the week has moved on.
When one venue underperforms, we know about it in time to respond — not in time to explain it.
There's a big difference between managing your business and reconciling it.
2
Your rostering — built for compliance or for profit?
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Our rosters are built against a revenue forecast — not just copied from last week.
Deputy, Tanda, Wageloch — great for compliance. None of them tell you if you can afford the hours you just rostered.
Before the week starts, our managers know whether the labour plan is going to hit our margin target.
If the first time anyone checks this is after payroll, you've already lost the week.
We get an alert mid-week if a venue's actual hours are running above where they should be.
In a $1.5m venue, 1% labour drift costs ~$15k a year. Across five venues, that's $75k quietly disappearing.
Our rostering tool knows what our revenue is doing — it doesn't operate in its own bubble.
A rostering tool that can't see your revenue is like a GPS with no map. It knows where you are. It has no idea if you're going the right way.
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Your ordering & food cost — before or after the P&L?
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We're tracking actual food cost against our target at least weekly — not waiting for month-end.
Your accounting software will show you the problem. The question is whether it's in time to fix it — or just in time to explain it.
If a venue is ordering more than it should relative to its revenue, something flags it.
Without this, over-ordering is invisible until it becomes a P&L conversation nobody enjoys.
We can compare food cost percentage across our venues in a single view — without exporting anything.
Cross-venue food cost comparison is one of the fastest ways to spot a process problem vs. a management problem.
Our ordering, labour, and revenue data all live in the same place — not spread across three different logins.
Every time your team stitches data together manually, something gets missed. Usually the thing that costs you money.
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Your reporting — operating or just reviewing?
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Our weekly ops meeting starts with live numbers — not a spreadsheet someone spent two hours pulling together.
If your team builds a report before the meeting, that's time spent looking backwards.
When a venue's margin drops, we can tell you whether it was labour, food cost, or revenue — straight away.
"Margin was down last week" is not an insight. Knowing why before the next service — that's governance.
Our venue managers and our ops team are looking at the same numbers at the same time.
When people work from different data, every conversation becomes a negotiation. Referee mode kills trust.
We can show, venue by venue, that our margins are improving — and prove it with our own data.
The groups hitting 12–16% margins aren't guessing. They're governing.
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Fewer than 12? We built Viability for exactly this.
It sits across your existing tools and gives you the layer that connects everything — one real-time view of your margin, before the week goes wrong.
No lock-in. No consultant fees. Results visible from week one.
