Prime Cost Health Check
Food plus labor as a share of sales — the fastest honest read on whether a week worked. Enter three numbers from your POS and see where you land against the published benchmarks.
Pizzeria Playbook
The tools behind the reporting. Each one takes a conclusion from an Oven Scars story and makes it executable with your own numbers — no signup, no email gate, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
Delivery Channel Breakeven
Marketplace commission is a percentage of your ticket. Your own driver and white-label fulfillment are closer to a flat fee. There is a specific ticket size where the two lines cross — this finds yours.
Labor by Daypart
A weekly labor percentage is an average, and averages absolve. Break one day into blocks and the overstaffed dead hours stop hiding behind the understaffed peak.
Occupancy Cost & Lease Quota
The 6% rent benchmark is not a grade, it is a sales quota. Run it backwards and a space tells you how much revenue it demands before it earns its keep — ideally before you sign.
Pizza Price Calculator
Price every size from one recipe card. Enter what your most common pie costs to make, pick a food-cost target, and get a price ladder for 10" to 18" that holds the same margin on every size.
How to read the benchmarks
Every benchmark in these tools is labeled with where it came from and how much to trust it. A lot of restaurant benchmarks are published by companies selling the software that measures them, and some of the most-quoted figures trace to datasets nobody has refreshed in years. Both can still be useful. You deserve to know which is which before you run your shop on one.
- Independent source Research bodies, accounting firms, primary filings.
- Vendor-published Real data, published by a company with something to sell. Discount accordingly.
- Dated data Still the accepted figure, but old enough that you should know its age.
All of them side by side, each with its source and the story that uses it: Pizzeria Benchmarks. The terms, defined: Pizzeria Glossary. Which costs are rising fastest: Pizzeria Cost Tracker.
Coming to the Playbook
Second-location readiness scoring, par-level and prep templates, and a menu engineering worksheet. If there’s a calculation you run on a napkin every week, tell us — hello@ovenscars.com. Operator requests decide what gets built next.