Count the Crumbs
PRODUCT · FINANCES · THE DINING ROOM

Know what you kept. Every month.

Sales, food, labor and every other cost by day, week, month or quarter, with what you kept from each dollar.

See it with your menu Take the tour
VIEWMonth
COMPAREAug 2026
ALSODay · Week · Quarter
September in Finances, sample data: food sales $130,381, down 1.2% on August; total costs $107,489; average check $66.83; you kept $22,892, 17.6 cents of each dollar, with food cost 25.3%, labor 17.3% and prime cost 42.6%
WHAT IT DOES

The money, on one page.

Day to quarterA day, a week, a month or a quarter.
Compare periodsThis month against any other.
Every cost as a shareFood, labor and the rest, as % of sales.
Prime costFood and labor together, against your targets.
Average checkChecks, per day and your busiest day.
Enter your numbersAdd sales and costs yourself, or import them.
Missing isn’t zeroDays without sales say so, never $0.
Daily salesEach day’s sales, and your busiest.
Sales against costs, May to October 2026, sample data, with cents kept per dollar on the right: about 17 to 20 cents each month
Sales v costs

Month by month, side by side.

Sales next to costs, with the cents you kept from each dollar.

Where September's sales went, sample data: food sales $130,381, ingredients $32,974 (25.3%), wages $22,603 (17.3%), other costs $51,911 (39.8%), you kept $22,892 (17.6%)
Where it went

Every line, as a share.

Food, wages and everything else as a share of sales, down to what you kept.

FROMLast 8 weeks
THENOrders and shifts to match
NEXT 4 DAYS · ESTIMATE · SAMPLEweather, events, holidays
Thursdaya usual Thursday$4,200
Fridayhome game nearby, 7 PM$5,700+12%
SaturdayHalloween$5,300−6%
Sundayrain after 3 PM$4,600−5%
An estimate, never counted as sales.
Forecast COMING SOON

Next week, before it happens.

Expected sales from your history, the weather, local events and holidays, so orders and shifts can match.

LIVE P&L · OCTOBER SO FAR · SAMPLE
Food salesfrom your register$91,240
Billsfrom your accounting$74,880
You keptso far this month$16,360
Updates as sales and bills come in.
Live P&L COMING SOON

This month, as it happens.

Sales from your register and bills from your accounting, kept up to date instead of added up at month end.

The money’s agent COMING SOON

Meet the agents →
Costs

Spots any cost that jumped 10% or more since the last delivery, and the dishes it pushes over target. Never changes a price.

STARTS ON TELL ME AFTER

See it with your menu.

On a call we go through one delivery, one count and one of your dishes. No payment, nothing to set up.

The restaurant building drawn in ink across the bottom of the page